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Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller testifies on Capitol Hill at a hearing on Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, May 17, 2013 in Washington, DC.

ABERDEEN – There weren’t any hazardous materials in suspicious envelopes sent to the Aberdeen offices of South Dakota’s congressional delegation, according to police.

Colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder Al Neuharth on Friday remembered him not as a driven media giant but as a loyal native South Dakotan who never forgot his roots.

Tesla Motors Inc., the electric-car maker run by Elon Musk, increased the size of its equity and debt offerings by 30 percent to as much as $1.08 billion to repay its U.S. loan and build up cash reserves.

Sen. John Thune and University of South Dakota President James Abbott will be among the colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder Al Neuharth on Friday.

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Just as the weather heats up and farmers return to the fields for planting, congress takes another look at the Farm Bill.

President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to hold accountable those at the Internal Revenue Service involved in the targeting of conservative groups applying for federal tax-exempt status, beginning with the resignation of the agencys acting commissioner.

The White House worked overtime Wednesday to try to change the narrative on two ongoing controversies embroiling the Obama administration.

South Dakota's U.S. Senator John Thune says he can't support the new farm bill in its current form.

At the ACLI Capital Challenge in Anacostia Park this morning, freshman Rep. Tom Cotton finished the three-miler in 17 minutes, 55 seconds - placing first among the 27 lawmakers who joined the annual race.

House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status broke the law, and he wondered aloud "who's going to go to jail." "There are laws in place to prevent this type of abuse," Boehner told reporters a day after an inspector general's report detailed how the IRS delayed ... (more)

The IRS's admission it targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny has drawn political condemnation but it isn't the first, second or third time the agency has been accused of playing fast and loose with the law.

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi voted with other members of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday to approve a sweeping new five-year, $500 billion farm bill.

Former Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's announcement that she is passing on a Senate race in 2014, combined with secondhand reports that U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson has also decided against a Senate bid, must have put big smiles on the faces of Republican strategists.

NEW YORK , May 14, 2013 - Olympian and American record holder Ryan Hall is getting political at the 32nd ACLI Capital Challenge , an annual running battle between members of the U.S. Government and the D.C. media.

President Barack Obama gestures during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Monday, May 13, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

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Congressional Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission to finally implement the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, joins the Senate GOP leadership during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, April 23, 2013, to criticize the FAA's plan to furlough air traffic controllers because of forced budget cuts.