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Wis. Supreme Court to hear Act 10 lawsuit

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit by tow unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collecti…

Scott Walker

Walker hopes to sign budget before July 1

Gov. Scott Walker says he hopes to sign the state budget into law before July 1.

Walker's GPS monitoring plan eliminated

The Legislature's finance committee has erased a plan in Republican Governor Scott Walker's budget that would allow judges across the state to order GPS monito…

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen

DOJ request for solicitor general rejected

The Legislature's finance committee has deleted provisions in Gov. Scott Walker's budget that would create a solicitor general's office within the state Justic…

Ex-Walker aide behind bars for 2nd OWI

Gov. Scott Walker's former campaign spokeswoman is serving 20 days in jail for her second drunken driving conviction.

GPS monitoring could be allowed with restraining orders

The Legislature's finance committee is set to consider provisions in Gov. Scott Walker's budget that would allow judges to order GPS monitoring as part of a re…

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IRS building

IRS to pay $70 million in bonuses

The Internal Revenue Service is expected to dole out $70 million in bonuses to employees in the next several months.

Sen. Charles Grassley fired off a letter Tu…

Protesters rally against IRS at Capitol

Thousands of tea party activists rip IRS at rally

Thousands of tea party activists gathered Wednesday outside the Capitol in loud protest of the Internal Revenue Service, seeking to keep the beleaguered agency…

IRS building

Whistle-blower says he was targeted by IRS

The same day a documentary that featured government whistle-blower P. Jeffrey Black premiered, an Internal Revenue Service agent came to Black's door for an au…

Immigration reform supporters

Poll: Big generational divide in immigration battle

While a small majority of Americans are in favor of the immigration bill currently before the U.S. Senate, according to a new national poll the old and young d…

Drone7

FBI uses drone aircraft in U.S., Mueller says

FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged his law enforcement agency uses drone aircraft in the U.S. for surveillance in certain difficult cases.

Money in wallet

Poll: Are you better or worse off than last year?

Call it a mixed bag.

They're still a minority, but an increasing number of Americans say economic conditions right now are good, according to a new national pol…

Chris Christie at news conference

Christie is a fan of who??

He went there.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced his support for one of the most divisive football teams in the country--and it's not one of the two team…

Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Third Republican senator backs same-sex marriage

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced her support Wednesday for same-sex marriage, becoming the third sitting GOP senator to back the right for ga…

Abortion rights, anti-abortion supporters

House passes late term abortion ban

The House of Representatives Tuesday passed a GOP-sponsored bill banning so- called "late term abortions" -- procedures for women who are beyond 20 weeks into …

Sign at Google campus

Google files court case against surveillance secrecy

Google filed a court petition Tuesday demanding it be allowed to share information about government surveillance programs with the public.

Obama at Brandenburg Gate

Obama seeks to cut U.S., Russian nukes

President Barack Obama followed in the footsteps of past U.S. leaders with a speech on Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate, where he said he would as…

Gitmo, Guantanamo

Doctors: Let us treat Guantanamo detainees

In an open letter to President Barack Obama published Tuesday, dozens of doctors asked to be allowed to treat hunger-striking prisoners at the U.S. detention c…

Immigration reform

CBO: Immigration bill could cut deficits by $175 billion

A bipartisan Senate bill that would create a path to legal status for many of the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States could reduce defici…

John Boehner payroll tax plan

Senate negotiators seek immigration deal

A bipartisan group of senators is scrambling to reach a fresh compromise they hope can propel a proposal to overhaul U.S. immigration policy toward passage in …

New York Stock Exchange trading

Surveillance stopped NYSE bomb plot

Bomb plots targeting the New York Stock Exchange and the city's subway were among more than 50 terrorist acts worldwide thwarted by top-secret surveillance pro…

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Opinion

Opinion: Nuke deal won't make us safe

On Wednesday, President Obama took a meaningful step toward reshaping our nuclear arsenal in line with the reality of 21st-century security priorities. Standin…

Ghitis: A new age of protests

Presidents, prime ministers and assorted rulers, consider that you have been warned: A massive protest can start at any time, seemingly over any issue, and can…

How the 'Francis effect' could rescue the church

Can Pope Francis save the Catholic Church?

The question is part hyperbole, of course, but perhaps a fitting way to ponder what some are now calling the "Francis…

Why domestic violence is never a private issue

Refuge opened the UK's first safe house for abused women and children in west London in 1971. Back then, domestic violence was still thought of as a private is…

Quarterman: Elephant killings surge

The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse…

Bergen: Listening in on terror group calls

Sometime in late 2007, Basaaly Saeed Moalin, a cabdriver living in San Diego, began to have a series of phone conversations with Aden Hashi Ayrow, one of the l…

'Tech can change lives of African women'

I recently left the Global Forum on Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship in South Africa, inspired, empowered and hopeful, but extremely impatient to see r…

Gascon: Cops should back immigration reform

Members of the law enforcement community must sound their voices in support of comprehensive immigration reform for the sake of public safety and for the sake …

Opinion: Decade of action vs. trafficking

Thirteen-year-old Anjali didn't just pack her bags and run away to the circus, she signed a 10-year contract with a circus master after fleeing from long hours…

Weiser: Bring voting into the digital age

Now that the Supreme Court has invalidated part of Arizona's voter registration law, states should be thinking twice before introducing laws to make it harder …

Opinion: Obama visit: Why U.S. needs Germany

U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech delivered 50 years ago was well received by more than 100,000 Germans hopeful for America's stea…

The Obamas' Africa opportunity

President Barack Obama's trip to Africa this month is focused on the pressing issues of economic growth and investment, democratization, and the next generatio…

Rothkopf: Iran and U.S.: New hope?

It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that changes nothing. Supr…

Granderson: The courage of teachers

Each day more than 55 million students attend the country's 130,000 schools.

Each day, parents and guardians entrust some 7 million teachers with the education …

Footman: You don't have to be an unpaid intern

In the fall of 2011, I was living at home in a suburb of Washington, freelancing as a grip on local productions ranging from news to corporate videos. It had b…

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Tea party protesters at Capitol

Angry tea party members protest IRS

Thousands of tea party activists gathered Wednesday outside the Capitol in loud protest of the Internal Revenue Service.

Obama at Brandenburg Gate

Obama renews call to reduce nuclear weapons

Speaking in Berlin, President Barack Obama renews his call to reduce the number of nuclear weapons worldwide.

Statue of Liberty

Send Lady Liberty back to France?

Campaign launched to deport the Statue of Liberty.

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