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After a decade, global AIDS program looks ahead
The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.
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Former IRS commissioner heads to Hill amid scandal
Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue Service, the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups.
The World Bank's Poverty Fighting Efforts Are at Risk
Andrew S. Natsios is an executive professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and the author of Sudan, South Sudan and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know .
W.Va. gets reprieve from No Child Left Behind law
West Virginia won limited freedom Monday from the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, gaining approval of its own method for identifying struggling schools and then devoting resources to improve them.
Editorial: Plow under the farm bill
American farmers are the most productive in the world. So, why do they need $940 billion in new subsidies over the next five years? That's the number in the bill passed last week, by a bipartisan 36-10 vote, in the Agriculture Committee of the House of Representatives: H.R. 1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.
Michele Bachmann: The IRS is 'going to be in charge of our health care.'
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., warned viewers of looming problems with the Internal Revenue Service playing a role in implementing President Barack Obama's health care law.
The hoopla over the new George W. Bush Library in Dallas, as well as some gauzy looks back penned by former aides, shows we are in the middle of "The Great Bush Revisionism." The former president is being lauded and congratulated .
PETA says IRS targeted it too, during Bush years
New charges from a liberal group that its tax-exempt status was questioned by the IRS are raising new questions that the tax agency is politically driven to please the party that controls the White House.
What happened to Obama's promise?
On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart captured the frustration that many of President Obama's supporters have felt over the past week as one scandal after another cascaded into the White House.
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Foreword by President George W. Bush. With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America's economic health.
Men making bold statements - with their socks
They're putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colors and dashing prints.
UNH Law School grads told to 'serve justice'
Two men who argued opposite sides in the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 election offered life lessons - and their own example - to graduates of the University of New Hampshire School of Law on Saturday.
Grim reminder of bloody US touch
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)
Pentagon said to seek $80 billion for war amid withdrawal
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.
Former top cop of TARP calls for break-up of banks
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.
Right Wing Groups Go Off Deep End, Again
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.
Morning News: Car Chases, Fecal Pools, and Kitchen Nightmares
No Touching : Another Army sexual harassment officer has been arrested, this time for allegedly violating his wife's protective order .
Business Class: Celebrate what we have in common
A very small number of Americans will ever have private access to a former or current president of the United States.
Acting IRS Commissioner Steps Down, Obama Announces
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.
NAACP Leader's Double-Standard on Alleged IRS Abuse
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.