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The sinister commonality to the Internal Revenue Service and AP scandals and the James Rosen affair is that each appears to have been an attempt to suppress a core American right.

The Washington Post reports Christopher Picciano , a 17-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, "maintains that he made a sarcastic quip while inadvertently displaying an image of a gun on his smartphone," according to his attorney.

Fifty high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program presented President Bush with a letter on Monday calling for an end to 'violations of the human rights' of terrorism suspects held by the United States.

The economy is recovering, the White House is dealing with multiple controversies, and President Barack Obama appears generally unaffected either way.

Defending the indefensible can make a liberal journalist a little prickly. How else do you explain Washington Post columnist Colbert I. "Colby" King's specious attack on his fellow Post colleague and Inside Washington panelist Charles Krauthammer this weekend? It all happened when Krauthammer responded to a Post editorial, published in Thursday's ... (more)

We all have the right to wear clothes that clash, and all in this country have the right not to provide testimony that could be used against them.

Jamie Dimon easily beat back a non-binding shareholders proposal to split the jobs of Chairman and CEO at JPMorgan Chase, winning 68% of the vote .

Dish Network Corp has rolled out an advertising campaign suggesting a deal by a Japanese company to acquire Sprint Nextel Corp could threaten U.S. national security, hoping to sway lawmakers and win support for its rival offer.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, pauses while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997 as a weekly feature for The Washington Post, accompanied by the work of "relationship cartoonist" Nick Galifianakis.

Now that the commemorations and ceremonies marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept.

IRS protesters on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tea Party activists organized the protest against the Internal Revenue Service saying they improperly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

"[I]t is unprecedented for the government, in an official court document, to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets." a " [T]his is the same argument the Justice Department has been using in their attempt to indict WikiLeaks and Julian Assange ," Trevor Timm writes.

The upstart grocer has had to add orange juice, soy milk and other non-local items to appease customers who are not yet ready to sacrifice their creature comforts in the name of the environment.

Americans are deeply divided over President Obama's ability to bring the country together in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll , the latest sign that his pledge to end decades of partisan warfare in the nation's capital is flagging.

Washington Post writer Michelle Boorstein tells of the growing number of seminary graduates who have no plans to become pastors: Alethea Allen, a Virginia resident, graduated this week from Wesley Theological Seminary in Northwest Washington after years of divinity classes .

As soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV, I had to leave the office right away.

The Chinese hackers who breached Google's corporate servers 41 months ago gained access to a database containing classified information about suspected spies, agents, and terrorists under surveillance by the US government, according to a published report.

Owner Mark Warmuth has remade the historic M.E. Swing into a company that can compete in the modern coffee marketplace.

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