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Associated Press Lois Lerner listens Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted tea party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he has selected a new acting head of the division, staying within the IRS to find new leadership.
House lawmakers support variable rate student loans
WASHINGTON — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote la...
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Obama lifts ban on Guantanamo transfers
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country’s security but not elimin...
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Associated Press Boy Scouts salute early Saturday morning during New Jersey's Boy Scouts Camporee in Sea Girt, N.J. The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted Thursday to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization...
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Retrial scheduled after jury deadlocks on Jodi Arias’ fate
PHOENIX — Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias’ fate couldn’t decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing...
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Associated Press LaTisha Garcia finds her son's favorite truck as she digs through the rubble of her tornado demolished home Thursday following Monday's tornado in Moore, Okla.
Distraught mom becomes face of Oklahoma storm
MOORE, Okla. — A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to her children. And so she raced against the storm. She had 30 miles ...
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Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegr...
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Authorities: No sign killing of 2 kids was planned
WEST POINT, Utah — A teenager was arrested Thursday in the deaths of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, at the family home in a Utah subdivision of new houses and tidy lawns, police said. ...
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IRS supervisor loses post over scrutiny of tea party
WASHINGTON — Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursday by replacing the supervisor who oversaw agents involved...
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Milestones for Guantanamo Bay detention center
President Barack Obama is expected to reaffirm his 2008 campaign promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, where terror suspects have been held since 2002, and begin the transfer of s...
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Associated Press J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration (right), talks with a member of his staff Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington as he testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. The panel was investigating the extra scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
IRS supervisor takes the 5th
WASHINGTON — At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied...
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