WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service diverted applications for tax-exempt status from tea party and like-minded organizations to a special track known as Group 7822 for special scrutiny, according to transcripts of an interview by ...
LONDON -- With many of their governments strapped for cash, leaders at a summit of rich nations vowed Tuesday to crack down on tax cheats by swapping financial information and exposing companies that set up elaborate structures to hide their ...
NEW YORK -- California has been trying to reform how it educates teachers for more than a decade, and some of its ideas have become a model for the rest of the country.
But the vast majority of teacher preparation programs in the state are still ...
BEIRUT -- Violence erupted in the Lebanese city of Sidon Tuesday afternoon, as supporters and opponents of the militant group Hezbollah traded artillery and small-arms fire in response to an attack on a prominent Sunni Muslim opponent of the ...
WASHINGTON -- The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New ...
MONTREAL -- Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned Tuesday, one day after his arrest on corruption charges.
Applebaum, 50, said he could not remain mayor while defending himself in court, Canadian news reports said.
He faces 14 criminal ...