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U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., is calling on the Obama administration to free former Alabama Gov.

The former head of the Internal Revenue Service said he first learned in the spring of 2012 - in the heat of the presidential campaign - that agents had improperly targeted political groups that vehemently opposed President Barack Obama's policies.

You must not be a very good researcher. No Nazareth, the Nazarene sect, probably what we now know as the Essenes.

Sen. Max Baucus said nine years ago that he had " concerns " about whether the inspector general who outlined the extra scrutiny that the IRS gave to conservative groups was independent enough for the job.

Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are set to vote this morning on a full slate of five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.

Seattle's native people, the Duwamish, will learn today about their next step in a decades-old legal battle.

The Gang of Eight immigration bill can be summed up as amnesty now, border closing never.

The president appeared at many rallies on behalf of additional gun control laws with parents of children murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

They're putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colors and dashing prints.

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.