WASHINGTON - Summoned by Republicans, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. ...

The District has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George's County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old ne ...

The Senate's immigration bill will raise national security risks and the Obama administration will do little more than "rubber- stamp" illegal immigrants into the program, endangering Americans, says the labor union representing the 12,000 employees ...

WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the most aggressive questioning over the company's controversial tax ...

Just how far the administration of President Barack Obama has veered from its original pious statements of intention not to let the government's business be influenced by outside consultants is illustrated by the case of Huma Abedin, former Secretary ...

A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and submitted thousands of pages of documentation -- a ...

WASHINGTON - The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still ...

Nearly 80,000 supporters since Friday have signed an Internet petition demanding felony sex charges be dropped against an 18-year-old lesbian who dated a 14-year-old high-school basketball teammate. Kaitlyn Hunt of Indian River County is charged with ...

President Obama's staff deliberately kept him in the dark about an impending report on the Internal Revenue Service scandal, his press secretary said Monday. White House press secretary Jay Carney said during his daily briefing with reporters White H ...

WASHINGTON - In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted ter ...