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The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records , perusing their e-mails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from ...
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Journalists, First Amendment watchdogs and government transparency advocates reacted with outrage Monday to the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the ...
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Ray Manzarek, who studied economics in college but cherished music and met with Jim Morrison on a California beach one fateful day in 1965 to help create the Doors, died May ...
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Apple used a “complex web” of offshore entities — with no employees or physical offices — that allowed it to pay little or no taxes on the tens of billions it earned ...
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The Supreme Court said Monday that it will review whether a New York town council that starts most of its meetings with a Christian prayer violates the separation of church ...
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Senior White House officials, including Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, learned last month about a review by the Treasury Department's inspector general into whether the ...
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‘Oh my God,” Leigh Partridge remembers thinking, her mind reeling as she tried to contemplate the unimaginable. “This cannot be happening again.” Doctors in the ...
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Here's a stunning fact: The Obama Administration has prosecuted more government officials for leaking than all previous administrations combined . Combine that eye-popper with ...
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The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned that the Internal Revenue Service had improperly targeted conservative groups, saying that some senior ...
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A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS's Lois Lerner Washington Post (blog) 21 . The ruling paved the way for political groups to apply under a tax-exempt status known as 501(c)4. ...
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When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a ...
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BEIJING — Armed North Koreans are holding a Chinese fishing boat and its crew ransom despite the protestation of Chinese officials, the boat’s owner said Monday. The ...
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Howard Wolfson, the 2008 communications director for Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said he will not return for a 2016 presidential campaign. Neither, for that matter, will Neera ...
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Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, ...
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The Justice Department inspector general said Monday that the former U.S. attorney in Phoenix retaliated against the main whistleblower in a botched federal gun operation by ...
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THOUGHT YOU HAD seen the last of the fighting over the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare? Since its passage in 2010, after all, it has survived Supreme Court ...
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Two FBI agents from an elite unit based in the Northern Virginia area were killed Friday during a training exercise in the Virginia Beach area, the FBI said Sunday. The agents ...
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Up to one in five American youngsters — about 7 million to 12 million, by one estimate — experience a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report billed as ...
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BEIRUT — Syrian troops backed by fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement pressed an offensive Monday to retake the strategic border town of Qusair amid reports of ...
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KABUL — A local Afghan leader who had been involved in efforts to defeat the Taliban was killed Monday in a suicide bombing that left 13 others dead as well, and nine ...
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RICHMOND — Thousands of Virginia Republicans on Saturday picked a slate of statewide candidates who vowed to stay true to conservative principles, resisting calls to remake ...
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With hurricane season less than two weeks away, and a very active season predicted by meteorologists, all thoughts are on what happened last year, when a tropical cyclone ...
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Over the weekend, CNN released the first extensive national polling on the "scandals" that have gripped Washington, and it got a bit of a bounce yesterday over two key ...
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White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday that the question of whether any laws were broken as part of the IRS scandal is “irrelevant” to the fact that the ...
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For many in this car-crazy nation, the freedom to hurtle down the famed autobahn at 120 mph or more is an inalienable right. Germany, one of the world’s top car producers, ...