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The landmark conviction of former Guatemalan dictator General Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity - the 1982 massacre of 1700 Ixil Mayan Indians considered sympathetic to leftwing guerrillas - and United States backing for the scorched earth campaign, was a grim reminder of bloody footprints left by Washington, in this case ... (more)

The Pentagon reportedly will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan.

Neil Barofsky, the feisty former prosecutor of Colombian drug lords who was tapped by President George W. Bush in 2008 to oversee the $700 billion TARP bank bailout, did not like a lot of what he saw during his 27-month stint in the nation's capital.

Sure it's not right that the IRS targets anyone, but the truth is the federal agency scrutinizes a lot of people for a lot of reasons.

No Touching : Another Army sexual harassment officer has been arrested, this time for allegedly violating his wife's protective order .

A very small number of Americans will ever have private access to a former or current president of the United States.

President Obama on Wednesday announced that acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller is stepping down amid investigations into political discrimination carried out by the IRS against conservative groups.

If there is anyone in the world who should have some sympathy for what the Tea Party movement and like-minded conservative organizations are going through right now with the IRS, it should be NAACP chairman emeritus Julian Bond.

A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board.

President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups.

The United States remains in armed conflict with al-Qaida and its affiliates, a fight likely to last a decade or two, senior Pentagon officials told Congress on Thursday in arguing against changes to the 2001 military force law used in the war on terror.

I have to laugh that Obama & Holder both just got nailed for snooping on the News Media by the very same conspiracy crap the liberal left tried to nail President George W Bush on! Back in Bush's first term, the NY Times tried to concoct a scandal for George W Bush on the FISA court and how its process had been changed after the attacks on 9-11. I ... (more)

On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.

Author Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, told Philadelphia Weekly that he thinks the Obama administration's foreign policy is actually worse than that of his predecessor, President George W. Bush.

'I'm one of those guys that believes we have an obligation or a responsibility when we can to have... President Barack Obama will hold a news conference today about news that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

Lawrence Wright is a staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the books The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief .

Officials in the Obama administration's Internal Revenue Service came under fire after revelations that workers in its Cincinnati office targeted for extra scrutiny tea party and conservative groups applying for 501 tax-exempt status.

Georgetown University professor and MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson revealed on MSNBC's Now on Wednesday that he has been the target of political intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service during the administration of President George W. Bush .

The White House dislikes tea party groups so much it directed the Internal Revenue Service to harass them.

The Senate on Wednesday put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government's main water resources law, which promotes investment in port improvements, flood protection, dam and levee projects and environmental restoration.