WASHINGTON — The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative ... Read more
RICHMOND, Va. — In the first Republican road test of a potentially torrid campaign issue, speaker after speaker at the party’s Virginia state convention over the weekend inveighed against the ... Read more
The 30-second Web video has the edgy quality of a campaign-season attack ad, including ominous music, grainy photos and a closing demand: “It’s time for new leadership.” But the ... Read more
During the summer of 2010, the dozen or so accountants and tax agents of Group 7822 of the Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati got a directive from their manager. A growing number of organizations ... Read more
RICHMOND, Va. — A celebrated chef. A political donor with a private jet to lend and a product to pitch. The state’s top two elected officials. Virginia is in the grip of an ... Read more
WASHINGTON — In response to the Obama administration’s plans to overhaul the nation’s international food aid program, which provides food to disaster-stricken regions, Congress this week began ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, not resting with the Internal Revenue Service scandal, are moving to broaden the matter to an array of tax malfeasances and “intimidation tactics” they ... Read more
BALTIMORE — President Obama, struggling to find his footing after one of his most turbulent weeks in office, will try to push past the moment’s political furor with a focus on the few pieces of ... Read more
BALTIMORE — President Obama, struggling to find his footing after one of his most turbulent weeks, vowed Friday to focus on the business of governing during a series of stops focused on middle-class jobs. ... Read more
WASHINGTON — For the better part of a decade, Jay Carney sat slumped in his tiny chair in the White House briefing room, parsing, challenging and at times pillorying the words of an array of press ... Read more