Tea Party News

Speaking on Senate floor on Thursday, a fed-up Sen. John McCain scolded Sen. Mike Lee over his objection to initiating House-Senate budget negations unless a debt limit increase is taken off the table.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he's gotten calls from two conservative groups that feel they were wrongfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

John Frazier stands alone in Durant to join the nationwide Tea Party protest of the IRS during Tuesday's downpour.

The Tea Party wants former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to join their favorites in the Senate, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul .

Lois Lerner, head of the IRS unit that decides whether to grant tax-exempt status to groups, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny the IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

The headline story this week is the devastating storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma on Monday, killing 24, seven of whom were children.

They're an upstart political movement intent on "taking back" the country from an out-of-touch political elite accused of ignoring opposition to immigration and threats to what they consider the nation's Christian heritage.

Georgia tea party activists protested the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service with a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol, calling for an investigation and tax reform to limit the scope of the federal agency.

Joe Dugan , board chairman of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, leads a protest at the Internal Revenue Service office at 601 19th Ave.

There were multiple reported sightings of agents with the Department of Homeland Security at several Tea Party-led IRS protests across the country There were multiple reported sightings of agents with the Department of Homeland Security at several Tea Party-led IRS protests in states like Missouri, Florida, Illinois and Indiana.

Dozens of tea party activists rallied outside the Internal Revenue Service office in Downers Grove on Tuesday to protest the tax agency's improper targeting of conservative groups.

The tax agency may have had good reason to scrutinize Tea Party Patriots-including a formal complaint I filed in 2011.

Becky Ferguson brought her year-old grandson Oakley to Tuesday's protest outside the Knoxville office of the IRS.

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.

A few dozen Tea Party demonstrators gathered outside of the Internal Revenue Service headquarters in the District of Columbia Tuesday to protest unfair treatment by the agency.

Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

MAY 17: Former Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George testify during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee May 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance.

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.