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  • IRS asked anti-abortion group about content of public prayers
    While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about its members' prayer meetings, documents sent by an IRS official to the organization reveal. On June 22, 2009, the Coalition for Life of Iowa received a letter from the IRS office in Cincinnati, [...]
  • Obama: His tiger’s not grrreat!
    Following a rough, scandal-filled week in Washington, President Barack Obama got dressed down by a bunch of kids. During a visit to Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., Friday, the president was asked to do another challenging task: Draw a tiger. "I got to help with one of the lessons. We were having to [...]
  • The IRS targeted tea party groups. Did liberal groups get better treatment?
    Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. As an inspector general report on the practice found, groups with phrases like "tea party," "patriots" and "9/12 project" were targeted for the "Be On the Look Out" or "BOLO" list, and often [...]
  • Obama gets break from scandals to push jobs and economy in Baltimore
    After a week filled with controversy and criticism, President Barack Obama left town Friday for Baltimore, the second stop on his "Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour." The trip, which was previously scheduled, took him to a dredging manufacturer and an elementary school, with the next stop on the itinerary a community center. At Ellicott [...]
  • IRS commissioner says agency practices were ‘absolutely not illegal’
    Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller apologized Friday on behalf of the federal tax collection agency for unfairly targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. But Miller insisted the practice was "absolutely not illegal." The IRS is under fire for placing heavier scrutiny on organizations with words like "tea party" or "patriots" in their name when [...]
  • Obama Pivots to Jobs Tour at End of Scandal Filled Week
    After a week filled with political scandals, President Obama turned to promoting his jobs tour in his weekly address Saturday. “That’s why I like getting out of the Washington echo chamber whenever I can – because too often, our politics aren’t focused on the same...
  • IRS Planted Question About Tax Exempt Groups
    The Internal Revenue Service planted a question at an American Bar Association conference in order to reveal that it had inappropriately targeted conservative groups prior to the 2012 elections.  But members of Congress are questioning why they weren’t told earlier. The question that prompted Lois...
  • Speier Calls Congress 'Enablers of Sexual Assault'
    Lawmakers Wednesday came down hard on military leaders, the morning after allegations emerged of another head of a military sexual assault prevention program engaging in the very behavior he was charged with stopping. Late Tuesday  the Army announced that the coordinator of a sexual assault prevention program at...
  • IRS IG Report: Targeting Conservatives Began In 2010
    The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News. As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea...
  • Indiana Farmer Loses Battle Against Monsanto
    ABC News’ Ariane de Vogue reports: The Supreme Court ruled today against a 76-year-old Indiana farmer who had taken on Monsanto in a patent dispute over a genetically modified soybean seed. “The question in this case,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court, “is...

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