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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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Associated Press Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with the family's dog, Bandit, Tuesday outside his home in Youngstown, Ohio. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind biodegradable airway made by Michigan doctors using plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer.
Doctors save boy by ‘printing’ tube
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It’s the latest ...
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Man shot to death while questioned in probe
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot to death early Wednesday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a k...
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Who else took the 5th? Baseball star, banker, more
WASHINGTON — The baseball star, the Hollywood 10, Oliver North. And Lois Lerner of the IRS. The official enmeshed in a probe of the tax agency is the latest on a roll call of witnesses called be...
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Associated Press A rescuer searches a neighborhood Tuesday near Telephone Road in Moore, Okla. Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed at least 24 lives, including those of nine children.
Search nears completion
MOORE, Okla. — The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday. Gary Bird said he’s “98 pe...
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Associated Press Amy Sharp (right) hugs daughter Jenna Dunn, 10, on Tuesday, a day after she picked up her children from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., which was leveled by a tornado packing winds of up to 200 mph in Moore, Okla.
Teachers credited with saving students
MOORE, Okla. — The principal’s voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents ...
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Criteria Recording Studios founder dies
MIAMI — Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness...
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Associated Press A cameraman films one of the U.S. consulate's burnt offices after an attack that killed four Americansin in 2012 in Benghazi. The U.S. has identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
FBI has Benghazi suspects but no arrests yet
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by mil...
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