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  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012

    Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Treaty won’t grab your guns

    "Thwarting global gun grabbers" (Commentary, Thursday) inaccurately claims the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) could infringe on Second Amendment rights if activist judges are appointed to the courts. The truth is that the ATT would provide a global solution to the rogue and irresponsible trade of weapons across borders, not deploy black helicopters to swoop in and take away your guns.

  • President Obama focuses his gaze on a reporter as he responds to a question regarding the criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and the Benghazi, Libya, attacks, during a press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    MILLER: Thwarting global gun grabbers

    The United Nations is pushing gun control on a global scale, and President Obama is on board. Just a few hours after re-election was assured, the president's representative cast a vote for the Arms Trade Treaty at a U.N. committee meeting.

  • Illustration Obamaliar by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    KNIGHT: Buying Obama's whoppers

    You know it's bad when the president deputizes Big Bird as his thuggish surrogate. Aside from Big Bird's checkered past as a well-to-do federal welfare recipient, wouldn't Joe Biden or Oscar the Grouch put up a better fight?

  • Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary of state for management, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Republicans blast security, response to Libya attack

    Partisan bickering overshadowed Wednesday's opening of a congressional hearing on last month's fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Researchers are trying to prove that this daguerreotype shows a 30-year-old Emily Dickinson (left) with her friend Kate Scott Turner. It would be only the second known photo of the poet. (Associated Press)

    Photo may show poet Emily Dickinson at 30

    Scholars at Amherst College in Massachusetts believe a collector may have what would be just the second known photo of poet Emily Dickinson.

  • Scholars may have 2nd photo of poet Dickinson

    Scholars at Amherst College in Massachusetts believe a collector may have what would be just the second known photo of Emily Dickinson.

  • Tuning in to TV

    The parents of two of three Arkansas boys who were murdered in 1993 said they're disappointed that a documentary about the killings and the three men convicted, known as the West Memphis Three, was nominated Tuesday for an Academy Award.

  • **FILE** The 2011 Chevrolet Volt debuts Dec. 2, 2009, at the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

    Volt safety sparks talk of federal conspiracy

    The apparent safety woes of the much-touted, all-electric Chevrolet Volt touched off a firestorm on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, as House Republicans charged that the Obama administration conspired with General Motors Co. to conceal those risks from consumers while pushing the vehicle as part of the "green" future.

  • Weather Channel has new top executive

    The Weather Channel has a new chief executive, and he's forecasting expansion overseas.

  • New Weather Channel chief looks to expand overseas

    The Weather Channel has a new chief executive, and he's forecasting expansion overseas.

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The new Chevy Volt electric car has a 230 composite miles-per-gallon rating, making it 20 percent cheaper to drive than the 2010 Toyota Prius, according to Edmunds.com.

    EDITORIAL: Unplug the Volt

    Wealthy liberals love nothing better than flaunting their enlightened attitudes. They see the selection of a trendy set of wheels as a great way to advertise their concern for the survival of polar bears. At the top of the must-have list for the self-enlightened is the Chevy Volt.

  • South Korean protesters stage a rally against a free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States in Seoul on Oct. 13, 2011. The letters on the signs read "Opposed FTA between South Korea and the United States." (Associated Press)

    Congress OKs three pacts on free trade

    Congress passed three free-trade agreements Wednesday night with South Korea, Colombia and Panama in what is the nation's biggest trade deal since NAFTA and the first for the Obama administration, with the promise of boosting the economy through the creation of tens of thousands of jobs.

  • **FILE** In this April 16, 2010, file photo, Gary Niemeyer finishes planting 1,550 acres of corn on his farm in Auburn, Ill. (Associated Press)

    Ethanol vote to set off GOP subsidy battles

    A long-simmering fight among Republicans will burst onto the public stage Tuesday when the Senate votes on eliminating government subsidies for ethanol producers — the first skirmish in what is expected to be a much bigger war over tax breaks, carve-outs and other taxpayer funding that boosts U.S. businesses and can fund American jobs.

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