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New Virginia GOP gov. nominee Cuccinelli is Tea Party favorite

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:16:45 GMT

Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.

Parking fees at California state beaches heat up

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:14:44 GMT

Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic.

Georgia town sued over law requiring gun ownership

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:58:00 GMT

A gun control support group is suing a north Georgia town that has a law requiring gun ownership.

Colorado sheriffs sue over new state gun restrictions

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:43:13 GMT

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

'We could lose everything': Tea Party groups prepare to sue IRS

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:45:04 GMT

Jay Devereaux hadn’t paid much attention to the daily drumbeat of partisan politics in D.C. He wasn’t a Washington nerd, didn’t know who said what during congressional hearings nor did he care. But when news broke that the government was using taxpayer money to bail out big Wall Street banks, he started paying attention and didn’t like what he was hearing.

Questions raised over administration claim that AP leak put Americans at risk

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:45:09 GMT

Americans were in danger. That was the chief argument Attorney General Eric Holder tried to make this week for why Justice Department officials seized two months' worth of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press. But the AP has strongly refuted from the start claims that it put the country in danger

IRS reportedly grilled pro-life group about the 'content of their prayers'

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:43:03 GMT

Questioning during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing revealed that a pro-life group applying for a 501(c)(3) may have been asked by the Internal Revenue Service to detail the content of their prayers.

Republicans urge watchdog probe into Sebelius seeking ObamaCare donations

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:22:11 GMT

Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues in calling on a government watchdog agency to investigate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate -- part of an effort to sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare.

Treasury officials knew of IRS probe last June, watchdog reveals

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:19:45 GMT

An Internal Revenue Service watchdog on Friday said he informed Obama administration officials last June, in the heat of the 2012 election season, that a probe was under way over the agency's targeting of conservative groups.

CBO: Obama budget track would cut deficit $1.1T by 2023

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:19:05 GMT

President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday.

Russia slammed by US for sending anti-ship missiles to Syria

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:59:26 GMT

The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war that Washington and Moscow have been promising to work together on stopping.

Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:03:10 GMT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify every person involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control.

'Foolish' -- but was it a crime? Investigations into IRS will probe whether laws broken

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:20:06 GMT

The outgoing IRS commissioner claimed Friday that his agency's practice of singling out conservative groups for extra scrutiny was "foolish" and "horrible" -- but not illegal. That determination, however, is up to the Justice Department to make as it begins to formally probe what went on at the agency over the last three years.

Issa subpoenas Benghazi probe co-leader, report raises new questions about US response

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:01:59 GMT

A top House Republican has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the Obama administration's internal review board for the Benghazi attack -- escalating his own inquiry amid a report that showed administration officials expressing regret about their response the night of Sept. 11.

Plot Thickens on AP Records Scandal

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:55 GMT

The Associated Press is suggesting that the reason the agency’s reporters and lawyers were the targets of a sweeping records seizure by the Department of Justice is not that national security was at risk, but rather the publicity the administration was seeking.

Obama focusing on job creation in Baltimore visit

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:21:48 GMT

President Obama is leaving behind scandal-focused Washington to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture.

Tables turn on IRS, lawmakers grill outgoing agency chief at heated hearing

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:12:31 GMT

In a hearing that escalated into a boisterous public shaming of one of the country's most-feared government agencies, lawmakers took turns Friday calling outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on the carpet for his department's scandalous practice of targeting conservative groups.

IRS official who oversaw unit targeting Tea Party now heads ObamaCare office

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:00:49 GMT

The IRS official who led the tax-exempt organizations unit when Tea Party groups were targeted is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare, two Capitol Hill sources told Fox News.

Judge allows Arizona immigrant driver's license policy move forward

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:41:32 GMT

A judge on Thursday refused to halt Gov. Jan Brewer's order that denies driver's licenses for young immigrants in Arizona who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy.

House votes to repeal ObamaCare in 229-195 vote

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:41:40 GMT

The Republican-led House has voted, for the 37th time, to repeal President Obama’s health care law, even though GOP lawmakers know the Senate will not follow suit.