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Dollar dips, shares mixed ahead of Bernanke testimony
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The dollar dipped and benchmark Bund futures rose on Wednesday as expectations hardened that the head of the U.S. central bank will later in the day signal no tapering off of the bank's ultra-easy monetary policy. Ben Bernanke, who...Tags: Julia Gillard, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Gross Domestic Product, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Enrico Letta
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McManus: Obama's IRS choice
Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats...
Tags: Prosecution, George W. Bush, Justice System, Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congress
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Bill Clinton, Doyle McManus, U.S. Congress, Politics, Barack Obama
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Rescuers seek Oklahoma tornado survivors as area eyes recovery
ReutersMOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Rescue efforts in the tornado-ravaged Oklahoma City suburb of Moore continued through the night into Wednesday morning, with officials increasingly confident that everyone caught in the disaster had been accounted for. The...Tags: Chaos (tv program), Tornadoes, National Weather Service, MSNBC (tv network), Tom Cole
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Amid Oklahoma tornado devastation, hunt for survivors persists
MOORE, Okla. — The grueling recovery from a killer tornado began Tuesday as search-and-rescue operations continued, but authorities acknowledged that the likelihood of finding anyone alive grew dimmer by the moment. In a rare bit of good news, the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Tornadoes, National Weather Service, Barack Obama, Building Material
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Dollar treads water as investors await Bernanke testimony
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar languished well below last week's 4-1/2-year high against the yen on Wednesday, ahead of testimony from the U.S. Federal Reserve chief after two regional Fed presidents hinted that the central bank will continue its bond-...Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Enrico Letta, Deutsche Bank AG, Conservation, Nikkei
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Immigration bill clears hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — A sweeping bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration system headed to the Senate floor after a key committee approved it Tuesday, setting the stage for a debate next month that could lead to the biggest victory for...
Tags: Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress, Labor Legislation, Politics, Ted Cruz
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...
Tags: Justice System, U.S. Congress, Federal Election Commission, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Politics
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Senate panel passes immigration bill; Obama praises move
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate next month in the full Senate over the biggest changes in immigration policy in a generation....Tags: Justice and Rights, Mitt Romney, Justice System, U.S. Congress, Elections
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With Obama in the dark, administration planned how to stage-manage news of IRS scandal
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Weeks before the world and apparently President Barack Obama himself heard about the details of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, top people in his administration started planning how to stage-manage the release of the information....Tags: U.S. Senate, Chuck Grassley, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Politics
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Toomey: It's hard to conclude that IRS scrutiny wasn't politically motivated
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said Tuesday that without knowing who at the Internal Revenue Service is responsible for the extra scrutiny applied to tea party groups, it's impossible to conclude it was not politically motivated. Toomey made the...Tags: U.S. Senate, The Washington Post, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Occupy Wall Street, Robert P. Casey, Jr.
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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...Tags: Saudi Arabia, NAACP, Richard Nixon, Media Industry, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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