President Obama said Thursday that he is naming a trusted White House budget official, Daniel Werfel, to serve as his new acting IRS commissioner. The appointment of Werfel comes as a second top IRS official announced Thursday that he is stepping down in the aftermath of revelations that the agency ... Read More

A "troubling" experience in Birmingham, Ala., helped cement Carl Ruby's resolve to work within the evangelical Christian community on behalf of immigrants in Ohio and across the U.S. Ruby was an administrator at Cedarville University in Greene County when he joined students on a 2010 civil-rights to ... Read More

An attorney for the family of an Anne Arundel County 7-year-old suspended from school after being accused of nibbling a pastry into the shape of a gun says he met with school officials Wednesday in an attempt have the student's suspension expunged, but no resolution was reached. Park Elementary Scho ... Read More

WASHINGTON -- The IRS subjected the Chattanooga Tea Party to "unnecessary" questioning and "significant processing delays" in the group's request for nonprofit status, according to an inspector general's report and documents obtained by the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The federal agency's foot-dra ... Read More

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement. Pestered by Republicans and some Democrats, H ... Read More

WASHINGTON -- The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information about the issue that opposition Republicans in Congress have used ... Read More

Conservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission that it targeted Tea Party-related groups for ... Read More

Information gathered by Internal Revenue Service agents who targeted conservative groups was used to further the re-election of President Barack Obama, Tom Zawistowski, leader of the Portage County Tea Party, said Wednesday.The groups were seeking tax-exempt status and were asked questions about the ... Read More

Portland, Ore., famous for its coffeehouses, indie music, microbreweries and bookstores, is now gaining recognition -- particularly among gay couples -- for a lesser-known attraction: reproductive medicine. Gays and lesbians who want babies are flocking from as far as France and Israel to conceive t ... Read More