5/22/13Washington
WASHINGTON — There's a framed Wall Street Journal editorial outside Fred Wertheimer's office that still makes him smile. The headline: "The man who ruined politics." Eighteen years later, politics are doing just fine as one whiff of scandal-beset Washington attests. Headlines track the uproar over the Internal Reve …
WASHINGTON — At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer lawmakers' further questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to …
WASHINGTON — There's a framed Wall Street Journal editorial outside Fred Wertheimer's office that still makes him smile. The headline: "The man who ruined politics."
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama embraced drone strikes in his first term, and the targeted killing of suspected terrorists has come to define his presidency.
The Cold War is long over, but espionage is forever. Russian spies still operate in the U.S. and American ones in Russia. Last week, Russia's security services said they had caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA official trying to recruit a Russian agent.
