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The outgoing head of the IRS blamed “foolish mistakes” made by employees for the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, denying that partisanship played a role in the controversy.Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS who submitted his resignation from that role earlier this week, appeared on Friday before the first Capitol Hill hearing on the revelations that IRS officials had inap...
House Republicans convened, on Friday, for the first of what’s sure to be many hearings into the actions by taken by IRS officials to single out conservative and Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny.Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who this week resigned from that position, appeared before the House committee charged with handling taxes on Friday, where he’s sure to face pointed ques...
Three pioneering and historic women labor trailblazers were inducted into Labor’s International Hall of Fame Thursday night. The award ceremony honored Evelyn Dubrow, Viola Liuzzo and Anna “Annie” Klobuchar Clemenc posthumously.
House Republicans were set Friday to convene the first of what’s sure to be many hearings into the actions by taken by IRS officials to single out conservative and Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny.Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who this week resigned from that position, will appear before the House committee charged with handling taxes on Friday, where he’s sure to face pointed...
Survivors of the tornadoes that devastated two towns in Texas on Wednesday night described their terror as the violent storm tore apart their homes, killing six people and injuring dozens more.Seven people remained unaccounted for on Friday as search efforts continued in the hard-hit Hood County town of Granbury, where a cluster of more than 60 homes built by Habitat for Humanity were among the wo...
An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from the break-in and beating death of the monkey at Zoo Boise in November.The primate was one of the zo...
