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Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costs
The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week, an apparent end-run around an unaccommodating Congress. The service expects the Saturday mail...
Tags: Career and Workplace, National Government, Retirement, Health Insurance Cost, Labor Legislation
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Roger Clemens acquitted on all charges
Roger Clemens was acquitted Monday on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress in denying he used performance-enhancing drugs to extend his long career as one of the greatest and most-decorated pitchers in baseball history. Fierce on the...
Tags: Cy Young Award, Sports, U.S. Department of Justice, FedEx Corporation, Mark McGwire
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Obama asserts executive privilege to withhold documents in gun-smuggling probe
Associated PressThe Justice Department says that President Barack Obama has asserted executive privilege to withhold documents a House committee is seeking in an investigation of a flawed gun-smuggling probe. In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., a Justice...Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party, Chuck Grassley, Adam Schiff
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IG: ex-US Attorney violated department policy with news leak in Fast and Furious probe
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated Justice Department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Mexico, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Firearms
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...Tags: White House, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System, Richard Nixon, Benghazi
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House panel subpoenas Benghazi review board co-chair to appear at closed deposition
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, to answer...Tags: NBC (tv network), Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael G. Mullen, Republican Party, Washington, DC
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Damage control: Obama takes action on trio of controversies, but Republicans still unsatisfied
AP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money...Tags: White House, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice and Rights, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Benghazi
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Investigations of IRS' targeting of groups is continuing in wake of ouster of top official WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the...Tags: Moscow (Russia), U.S. Department of Justice, Mike Conley, Daniel Ellsberg, Physiology
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GOP demands more despite Benghazi email release
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information....Tags: White House, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Military Equipment, Police Investigations, Christopher Stevens
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Obama ousts IRS chief over inquiry
WASHINGTON — President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem. Making a hastily scheduled statement...
Tags: White House, Jack Lew, Darrell E Issa, Interior Policy, Justice System
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The chain of events leading to congressional and Justice Department probes of IRS actions
Associated PressA look at events leading to the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service placed conservative groups under special scrutiny for 18 months before the 2012 elections, a practice that has prompted congressional inquiries, a Justice Department criminal...Tags: Orrin Hatch, Career and Workplace, White House, Tea Party Movement, Social Movements
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White House releases Benghazi emails; Petraeus email objected to final Benghazi talking points
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, because he wanted to see more details revealed to the...Tags: White House, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Police Investigations, Darrell E Issa, Christopher Stevens
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