WASHINGTON -- A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency's mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status.
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NEW YORK -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has maintained her position as the most powerful woman in the world, in a ranking published Wednesday by Forbes magazine.
Merkel has held the No. 1 position on the Forbes list of the 100 most powerful ...
ROME -- A disgruntled Italian business owner who for the second time in less than a year has climbed on top of St. Peter's Basilica to protest the government has ended his latest stunt after two days.
Beach resort owner Marcello Di Finizio was ...
ACAPULCO, Mexico -- It is a sultry morning in this crime-ridden resort, and little movement occurs at the main police headquarters. Francisco Robles, a freelance news photographer, glances down at an incoming text message on his phone.
"Four dead...
BEIJING -- Exports of elegant Swiss watches to China have plunged. Sales of Mercedes-Benz and other premium sedans are slowing. And high-end restaurants, coming off their worst Chinese New Year festival in years, are starting to change their menus...
LOS ANGELES -- The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood, Calif., restaurant.
USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light....