North Korea Fires Three Missiles Off Its East Coast
By firing three short-rangle missiles of its east coast Saturday, North Korea made good on several months of threats and provocations, the Los Angeles …
Cuccinelli Formally Accepts GOP Nomination In Va. Guv Race
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on Saturday formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination in the Commonwealth’s gubernatorial race this year, the Virginian-Pilot reported. With Cuccinelli unopposed, the …
Obama Hits The Links With Cabinet Secretaries
President Barack Obama on Saturday braved rainy conditions to play a round of golf with a pair of cabinet secretaries, according to a White House …
Jindal Says IRS Officials Should Go To Jail For Targeting
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Saturday will call for jail time for Internal Revenue Service officials who engaged in improper targeting of conservative …
Plane Lands In New Jersey Without Landing Gear
A commercial airplane touched down early Saturday morning in Newark, N.J. without its landing gear, CNN reported. The U.S. Airways plane was carrying 31 passengers …
Obama Aides Told To Spend No More Than 10% Of Time On Recent Controversies
Urging focus, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough has intructed those in President Barack Obama’s circle to not get swept up in the controversies that …
Romney Talks IRS, AP Leak, Benghazi With Leno (VIDEO)
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Friday made a rare public appearance when he sat down with Jay Leno for a wide-ranging interview …
Jay Carney: ‘For Me Personally, It Has Been A Good Week’
After a week in which he faced a grilling from reporters on the buregoning controversies involving the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice …
IRS Says Release Of Groups’ Materials To ProPublica Was ‘Inadvertent And Unintentional’
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued a statement to ProPublica saying that the agency’s release of pending confidential tax-exempt applications from conservative groups last …
Man Arrested For Firing Gun At Cannes Film Festival
A man was arrested on Friday for firing his gun two times into the air during a live television broadcast at the Cannes film festival …
Ensign And FEC Agree To Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Penalties
Former Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), his political committees, and his parents, have entered into conciliation agreements with the Federal Election Commission, to resolve allegations …
IRS Official Lois Lerner Called Lawyer To Plant Targeting Question
The veteran tax lawyer whose pre-arranged question to an IRS official at a panel last week prompted the admission that the agency had targeted …
IG Informed Top Treasury Officials That IRS Probe Was Opened
The Treasury Department’s inspector general testified at a congressional hearing Friday that he had informed Obama administration officials of an investigation into improper scrutiny …
Treasury Secretary To Boehner: Raise The Debt Limit Cleanly
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Friday informing him that the debt limit will be reached …
Issa Subpoenas Benghazi Investigator Pickering
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said Friday that he will subpoena Ambassador Thomas Pickering over the investigation into last year’s deadly attack in …
Fired IRS Chief Shrugs And Sighs Through Scandal Hearing (VIDEO)
Internal Revenue Service acting commissioner Steven Miller, who was asked to step down this week, testified before a congressional committee on Friday that although the …
Toronto Mayor Speaks Out, Calls Crack Smoking Allegations ‘Ridiculous’ (VIDEO)
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Friday responded to reports that he is shown smoking crack cocaine in a video being shopped around to media outlets …
The Daily Caller Accuses Obama Of Breaching ‘Marine Umbrella Protocol’
The conservative news website The Daily Caller has accused President Obama of violating Marine Corps regulations when he had a pair of Marines hold …
Steve King: Benghazi Cover-Up ‘Surpasses Watergate’
Count Rep. Steve King (R-IA) among those who thinks the purported government “cover-up” of the attack in Benghazi, Libya is worse than the mother of …
Obama Talks Jobs In Baltimore (WATCH LIVE)
President Barack Obama on Friday will deliver remarks in Baltimore as part of what the White House describes as the “ Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour.” The …
Obama Officials On Benghazi Response: ‘Incompetence’ Not ‘Cover Up’
Obama administration officials who served in key posts on the night of the deadly Benghazi, Libya attacks last year say that mistakes made in responding …
Outgoing IRS Chief: Wrongdoing Was ‘Absolutely Not Illegal’
Outgoing IRS chief Steven Miller told a congressional committee Friday that wrongdoing by the agency in requiring additional scrutiny of tea party groups was not …
22-Year-Old Woman Killed In Assault Rifle Accident
Anastasia Adair, a 22-year-old Colorado woman, died after she was accidentally shot with an assault rifle she had recently purchased, TV station KMGH reported …
National Review Cover Shows Hillary Playing Fiddle During Benghazi Attack (PHOTO)
The latest issue of the conservative National Review depicted a caricature of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton playing a fiddle with the U.S. compound …
Nixon’s Counsel Says Obama Is No Nixon
The current slate of controversies consuming the White House has some people comparing President Barack Obama to former President Richard Nixon, but a former top …
Rangel On IRS: ‘This Outrage Is Not Democrat Or Republican’
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said Friday at a House Ways & Means Committee hearing that the IRS scandal is a “cancer” and that both parties …
Dem Slams GOP Chairman For Linking IRS Scandal To White House
At a Ways & Means Committee hearing Friday on the IRS scandal, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) slammed Chairman Dave Camp (R-WI) for linking agency wrongdoing …
Outgoing IRS Chief: No Deliberate Targeting On The Basis Of Politics
Outgoing acting IRS chief Steven Miller told Congress on Friday that there was not a deliberate effort at the agency to targeting individuals or groups …
Outgoing IRS Chief Apologizes For ‘Foolish Mistakes’
Acting IRS chief Steven Miller on Friday apologized to Congress for “foolish mistakes” the IRS made as he testified before the House Ways & Means …
Treasury Inspector General Finds ‘Ineffective Management’ By IRS
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George told the Ways & Means Committee on Friday that the IRS used “inappropriate criteria” which targeted …