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Attention shifts to White House in IRS probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew weeks ago about a watchdog report on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups, a spokesman said on Monday, shifting the focus to the White House in a fast-moving ...
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Tornado on the ground in Oklahoma City area
(Reuters) - A tornado was on the ground in the Oklahoma City metropolitan are on Monday, live television showed, and the National Weather Service warned of tornadoes in two counties of central ...
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White House learned of IRS inquiry last month Issa informed in mid-2012
The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, weeks before the matter became public, according to a senior White House ...
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Watch Ex-Cop Hailed as Hero Is Charged With Rape
-- retired Philadelphia cop whose heroism once earned him praise from Vice President Biden is now facing rape charges. 27 year old Richard Dick coats worth is accused of sexually assaulting two ...
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Watch Jodi Arias Judge Denies Attorneys Request to Withdraw
Jodi Arias Judge Denies Attorneys' Request to Withdraw Kirk Nurmi asked for a mistrial in the death penalty phase citing prosecutorial ...
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Slumping Giants Return Home To Face Talented Nationals Squad
The Nationals posted a 9-4 record against the Giants in the 2011 and 2012 seasons combined, tied for the best record by any SF opponent in that span (Miami also went ...
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A’s Look To Exploit Banged-Up Pitching Staff Of West-Leading Rangers
The Rangers have just two losses in their last 11 games overall and have won six of their last seven home games. Texas has won 13 of its last 18 home games against ...
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Florida governor signs budget but vetoes college tuition hike
By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE | Mon May 20, 2013 4:24pm EDT TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the largest budget in his state's history on Monday while vetoing a college tuition increase and axing $368 million in projects he said did not meet his Republican criteria of job creation, education improvement and holding down the cost of government. Scott, who ...
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Feds NYU researchers took bribes from Chinese co.
NEW YORK -; Three researchers are charged with taking bribes from a Chinese government-supported institution in exchange for access to restricted research from a New York University ...
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas oil in ANWR
JUNEAU, Alaska -; Alaska has unveiled a plan to determine the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's oil and gas potential, as the state looks to reinvigorate the debate over whether to drill on the refuge's coastal ...
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Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
WASHINGTON -; Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement ...
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Police Suspects mistakenly dial 911 during crime
FRESNO, Calif. -; Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities ...
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Palestinians hold off on UN agency membership
UNITED NATIONS -; A top official says Palestinians have done all the legal work necessary to join 63 U.N. agencies, conventions and treaties, but haven't applied yet mainly to give the U.S. peace effort a chance to ...
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High crop prices entice farms to expand planting
In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, farmer Clark Kelly holds a golf ball he dug out of a fairway on the Hend-Co-Hills Golf Course, in Biggsville, Ill. Kelly purchased the course, which was in foreclosure, with plans to plow it into farm land. Across the Midwest, farmers are planting crops on almost any scrap of available land to take advantage of consistently high corn and soybean prices. ...
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Top White House Aides Informed of IRS Troubles but Didn’t Tell Obama
Top White House aides, including chief of staff Denis McDonough, were informed of the forthcoming report on the IRS' targeting of tea party group but decided not to inform President Obama in advance, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday. Previously, the White House had said that the White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, had been told of the coming report from Treasury's ...
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3 charged in LA-area bank robbery
Five men accused of robbing bank customers were sentenced to life in prison for murder on Monday for killing the child of a pregnant woman who was chased down by motorcycle gunmen and shot twice as she begged for ...
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Milwaukee Pug Fest attracts 1700 dogs
The Milwaukee Bucks announced on Tuesday that center Samuel Dalembert will be suspended for one game without pay to a violation of team ...
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White House defends IRS chief-turned-ObamaCare enforcer
In the Obama Administration, deploying the Incompetence Defense is no obstacle to receiving cash rewards and promotions. Even though the former commissioner of the tax exempt organizations division of the IRS, Sarah Hall Ingram, was – at best – shockingly ignorant of widespread abuse in her department, she’s ...
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Smart to exaggerate terrorist threats
>Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive. " (CNN) -- Terrorism causes fear, and we overreact to that fear. Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar and common ...
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Obama to deliver speech on counterterrorism policy
President Barack Obama is expected to address such issues like the drone program, the U.S. prison program at Guantanamo Bay and possibly even the Justice Department's seizure of the telephone records of Associated Press journalists. A NewsNation panel ...
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White House tries to clear up how when it knew of IG report
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reveals a timeline related to when the Obama administration became aware of an IG report about the IRS allegedly targeting political ...
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The Caucus Senate Panel Asks I.R.S. Chief to Detail Communications With White House
If the Internal Revenue Service and the Obama administration thought the Senate Finance Committee and its Democratic leaders would offer something of a respite from the battering they have been taking from Congressional Republicans, they learned otherwise on Monday. Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who is the chairman of the committee, and Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the ranking ...
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Now that Tumblrs hit it big whos next in line on the New York tech scene | Heidi Moore
$1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr - "we won't screw it up," the acquirer promised - than the New York tech world erupted in gossip and speculation about which company among them would be next to find an equally rich and self-deprecating corporate suitor. "That's all people are talking about at Internet Week - what's going to be the hot new acquisition?" said ...
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More Americans murdered in Mexico than any other country in the world
More Americans have been murdered in Mexico than in any other part of the world in the past decade. According to an Agence France Press analysis of U.S. State Department figures, at least 648 American citizens were murdered in Mexico between October 2002 and December 2012. This represents more than 40 percent of the almost 1,600 American victims worldwide over the same period. Three of the top ...
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Why Americas Falling Birth Rate Is Sensational News for the Pet Industry
Of course, pet spending also just seems to track pretty closely with disposable income. Two-paycheck households with no children have a lot more extra cash to throw around on premium dog chow and fancy kennels than most singles or young parents, after all. So for those out there who aren't particularly comfortable with Last's brand of cultural criticism, here's another way to ...
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