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Police gather at the Washington suburban home of former George W. Bush adviser Claude A. Allen, whose son allegedly used a hatchet to kill another man there.

The Washington Post has a new managing editor, replacing John Temple , who left the paper in March .

Today's headlines include details on California's new health insurance exchange rates, whether consumers will experience "rate shock" and what these numbers say about the health law's implementation.

The Daily Caller reports that White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had three unprecedented one-on-one meetings last year with the Treasury Department's chief lawyer, Chistopher Meade.

The CPI measures inflation, and lots of folks pay attention to it when the number is released each month.

The chemistry in my nine-month relationship is awesome, the hard work feels minimal, and we stay up late and talk often.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is continuing his push to tie Democratic efforts to increase campaign finance disclosures to the IRS scandal.

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.