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  • President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: The Obama enemies list

    The Obama administration has an enemies list, and John Dodson was on it. The special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) infuriated his superiors by alerting Congress and everyone else about the government's gunrunning scheme called Fast and Furious.

  • **FILE** Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks Sept. 12, 2012, during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Grilled Apple

    Even after taking new hits to its stock price, Apple Inc., remains the most valuable corporation in the world. That makes some senators green with envy. They assume such success could only have come at a cost to the government.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    DONNELLY: The generals flunk the birds 'n' bees test

    The latest report by the Defense Department's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office documents the dysfunctional consequences of social experiments with human sexuality in our military over many years.

  • ** FILE ** Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, is House Oversight Committee chairman. (Associated Press)

    Rep. Darrell Issa: IRS misled Congress, American people

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    The top Republican investigator in the House said Wednesday the IRS intentionally misled Congress by failing to sound the alarm over political targeting in its tax-exempt division from 2010 to 2012.

  • **FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 16, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Boehner: Obama administration will get what it needs for Oklahoma

    House Speaker John A. Boehner said repeatedly on Tuesday that he will work with the Obama administration to make sure that it has the resources it needs to support Oklahoma in the wake of the deadly tornado that swept through the state Monday.

  • Dr. Kermit Gosnell is escorted to a waiting police van upon leaving the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia on May 13, 2013, after being convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his clinic. (Associated Press/Philadelphia Daily News)

    MILLER: Jarred by Gosnell, Congress moves to ban abortion after 20 weeks

    As Kermit Gosnell starts his life sentence for murdering babies, Congress is moving to create a federal law against aborting babies in the last months of pregnancy.

  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2013, following the Republican policy luncheon. (Associated Press)

    McConnell calls for end of import sanctions on Myanmar

    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday urged Congress not to extend import sanctions on Myanmar, warning that sticking with the sanctions would be "a slap in the face" to reformers in the Southeast Asian nation.

  • FBI identifies 5 suspects in Benghazi attack; no arrests yet

    U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Former IRS commissioner says scrutiny was not his job as a political appointee

    The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was inappropriately scrutinizing conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status said Tuesday that he intentionally kept himself in the dark about those kinds of decisions because he thought, as a political appointee, he should keep his distance.

  • A Wall Street sign hangs near the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)

    Stock indexes head higher in afternoon trading

    The stock market turned higher Tuesday as investors banked on continued policy support from the Federal Reserve. Two big retailers also topped Wall Street's expectations for the most recent quarter.

  • **FILE** The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen here on March 22, 2013. (Associated Press)

    IRS official to plead the Fifth

    An attorney for the high-ranking IRS official who ignited the agency's political targeting scandal with a public apology this month plans to invoke her right to remain silent instead of answering questions from top House investigators on Wednesday.

  • Pentagon still at risk for fraud, misspending, watchdog warns

    The Pentagon is good at running the military but bad at running the logistics, human resources and technology inside one of the world's largest businesses, a government watchdog warns.

  • True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht. (Screen shot from True the Vote's Vimeo page)

    Group fighting voter fraud among those waiting on IRS; reams of documents still not enough

    A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and submitted thousands of pages of documentation — and it still hasn't been approved.

  • **FILE** Bill Newell, special agent in charge of ATF Phoenix, speaks Jan. 25, 2011, behind a cache of seized weapons in Phoenix. The ATF is under fire over a Phoenix-based gun-trafficking investigation called "Fast and Furious," in which agents allowed hundreds of guns into the hands of straw purchasers in hopes of making a bigger case. (Associated Press)

    Fast and Furious: U.S. Attorney sought to discredit agent by leaking documents

    The U.S. attorney in Arizona leaked an internal memo to undermine a veteran Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who was highly critical of the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation, the Justice Department's office of inspector general said Monday in a report.

  • **FILE** Sens. Patrick Leahy (right), Vermont Democrat and president pro tempore of the Senate, and Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, walk to the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill on May 6, 2013, during a vote on legislation to collect sales tax on Internet purchases. (Associated Press)

    GOP generational divide could sink Web sales tax bill: Study

    Critics of Internet sales tax say that rising resistance from newer GOP lawmakers could sink a bill now before the Republican-controlled House to require online retailers such as eBay to start collecting sales taxes for the states.

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