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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, CNN (tv network), Television Industry
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Partisan political bubbles distort Benghazi facts
How you feel about Benghazi very likely has everything to do with your political leanings. If you think the Obama administration is covering up a scandal bigger than Watergate, you are almost certainly a Republican. If you think Republicans in Congress...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of State, Republican Party
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Poll: The first firing of the IRS 'tea party' scandal
The scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for special review claimed its first scalp Wednesday, when Treasury Secretary Jack Lew demanded and received the resignation of the agency's...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Jack Lew, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation
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Mistaken Benghazi claim came from CIA, emails show
WASHINGTON — Career CIA officers were responsible for administration claims that the armed attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead last fall grew out of a protest of an anti-Islamic video, an incorrect assertion that became a...
Tags: Susan Rice, U.S. Embassy, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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Obama calls controversy over Benghazi talking points a 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — President Obama tried to dismiss a brewing controversy over the White House handling of the terrorist attack on Benghazi as a “sideshow” and accused critics of using an attack that killed four Americans for political gain....
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Government, U.S. Department of State, White House
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Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy
WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, Jay Carney
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Public interest in Benghazi sags, but not among Republicans
WASHINGTON — Public interest in the investigation of the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya last fall has dropped sharply from its high point in October and has taken on a strongly partisan cast, polling data released Monday shows. Just...
Tags: Politics, Fox News Channel (tv network), Parties and Movements
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Outraged over IRS snooping scandal? Readers aren't
If the hand-wringing over revelations that the IRS gave additional scrutiny to "tea party" groups and other conservative organizations applying for tax-exempt status is as widespread as the coverage makes it seem, that anger hasn't spread to a place where...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Internal Revenue Service
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Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents
It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...
Tags: Medical Research, Ovarian Cancer, Genetic Engineering, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Mastectomy
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Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Biology, Anna Gorman, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Women's Health
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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
WASHINGTON — A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans....
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Jay Carney, Central Intelligence Agency
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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...
Tags: Monica Lewinsky, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Steve King
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