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Your tax dollars at work - producing goofy videos at US embassies. Ambassador Anne Andrew , U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, and her U.S. Embassy staff put together this goofy music video to encourage Costa Rican's to get more visas to the US.

Experts on Islam and terrorism are decrying the Department of Homeland Security's recently revealed anti-terrorism training guidelines, which pressure cops to ignore Islamic beliefs when investigating terror crimes.

Muhammad al-Dura, the Palestinian child who appeared to have been shockingly killed at his father's feet in Gaza on September 30, 2000 - an iconic image that helped fuel the Second Intifada - was not harmed by Israeli forces and did not die in the exchange of fire, according to an Israeli government report released Sunday, three days before a ... (more)

"Partisanship or the perception of politics has no place in the IRS," acting commissioner Steven Miller said in a brief opening statement to the Ways and Means Committee .

On Sunday, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer made the talk show rounds in the wake of three scandals involving the Obama administration, but seemed to have the same message: the details were "irrelevant" and Obama wants to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Missouri liberal Claire McCaskill called on federal officials to be fired over the IRS conservative targeting scandal.

A damning ethics report that revealed Assemblyman Vito Lopez's penchant for propositioning young women, his high-heel fetish and his aversion to bras brought back a flood of unpleasant memories for one former colleague.

Mike Wolfert, who's developing a massive indoor rock-climbing center in Queens, allegedly asked Van Bramer to pull strings for him after he was slapped with a stop-work order for doing construction work without a permit.

For many, the answer to the question would you rather rot in a Cuban political prison or struggle to survive in Spain has an obvious answer.

The Washington Post has two front-page above-the-fold articles on the scandal, a news story and an in-depth look at the IRS in the wake of the controversy.

Mayor Bloomberg is privately fuming at the data breach that has imperiled the reputation of his global media company, according to sources.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa formally demanded the co-'investigator' of the Benghazi clusterfruckman, who is also the man who called Americans rabidly racist and Islamophobes , to appear before the Committee.

The 28-year-old University of Wyoming student who allegedly threatened herself with rape in a Facebook hoax in April was convicted of aggravated assault in 2005 after she brandished a gun at an employer who fired her.

An Uzbekistan national arrested in Boise has pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges he conspired with a terrorist group on a scheme to use a weapon of mass destruction.

LGBT: Portuguese parliament approves right to adoption - Portugal - Portuguese parliament has approved Friday a bill that will allow same-sex married couples to adopt their partner's bilological or adopted children.

For decades, the hired thugs of Cuba's dictatorship have watched, harassed, intimidated, and viciously beat opponents of the regime with relative impunity.

Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records.

Congressional Hearings on I.R.S. Scandal Begin - WASHINGTON - The first Congressional hearing into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny quickly turned into partisan jousting, with House Republicans pressing to expand the inquiry

Councilwoman Inez Dickens is behind on tax payments to the city for two rental properties she co-owns in Harlem.

A 22-year-old Colorado woman described as newly interested in firearms was accidentally shot and killed by an AK-47-style rifle she'd recently bought a gun show.