Tea Party News

The headline story this week is the devastating storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma on Monday, killing 24, seven of whom were children.

They're an upstart political movement intent on "taking back" the country from an out-of-touch political elite accused of ignoring opposition to immigration and threats to what they consider the nation's Christian heritage.

Georgia tea party activists protested the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service with a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol, calling for an investigation and tax reform to limit the scope of the federal agency.

Joe Dugan , board chairman of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party, leads a protest at the Internal Revenue Service office at 601 19th Ave.

There were multiple reported sightings of agents with the Department of Homeland Security at several Tea Party-led IRS protests across the country There were multiple reported sightings of agents with the Department of Homeland Security at several Tea Party-led IRS protests in states like Missouri, Florida, Illinois and Indiana.

Dozens of tea party activists rallied outside the Internal Revenue Service office in Downers Grove on Tuesday to protest the tax agency's improper targeting of conservative groups.

The tax agency may have had good reason to scrutinize Tea Party Patriots-including a formal complaint I filed in 2011.

Becky Ferguson brought her year-old grandson Oakley to Tuesday's protest outside the Knoxville office of the IRS.

IRS protesters on May 21, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Tea Party activists organized the protest against the Internal Revenue Service saying they improperly targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

A few dozen Tea Party demonstrators gathered outside of the Internal Revenue Service headquarters in the District of Columbia Tuesday to protest unfair treatment by the agency.

Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

MAY 17: Former Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George testify during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee May 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Citing a lack of leads, a police agency said Monday that it is closing the active investigation of the disappearance of Susan Powell, a Utah mother whose now-dead husband was a prime suspect The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance.

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

Senate lawmakers took their turn Tuesday grilling IRS officials over the agency's targeting of conservative groups, as they called them to account for a "scandal" they say has undermined the public's trust in government.

President Obama's chief of staff and the White House's top lawyer got wind of an inspector general's investigation into the IRS' singling out of tea partiers and conservative groups several weeks before the report went public.

A report out Monday indicates that President Obama met with the president of the union that covers IRS employees the day before they began targeting tea party and other conservative groups.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., listens as Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder the Tea Party Patriots, speaks during a news conference.

As the IRS-Tea Party scandal continues to balloon, Grass Valley attorney - and ol' school Tea Party leader - Mark Meckler is filing a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Nor Cal Patriots - and potentially other organizations whose tax status applications were processed IRS.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, argued that had the IRS been around during time of the Boston Tea Party, it probably would have shot them, along with at least half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.