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  • Pot Regulations in Washington May Differ From Colorado’s

    Marijuana retailers in Colorado will be required to grow a majority of what they sell. In Washington, retailers can’t also be growers and processors under proposed regulations.

  • Goldman Sachs Wins Even When Muzzled by the Feds

    Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex deal named Abacus.

  • Obama Administration Releases E-Mails on Benghazi Account

    President Barack Obama called on Congress to “fully fund” his request to bolster security at U.S. diplomatic outposts as he sought to contain political fallout from last year’s deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Obama Said to Choose Acting IRS Chief as Hearings Start

    President Barack Obama plans to choose a new acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service this week as the first congressional hearings begin into the agency’s selective scrutiny of small-government groups, according to an administration official.

  • Obama Forces Out U.S. IRS Chief in Bid to Contain Damage

    President Barack Obama forced out the head of the Internal Revenue Service over the agency’s selective screening of nonprofit groups, as the administration sought to contain scandals imperiling its second-term agenda.

  • Obama Asks Schumer to Revive Bill to Shield Reporters

    Under pressure from lawmakers and journalism groups for the Justice Department’s subpoena of reporters’ telephone records, the Obama administration sought to revive a bill to help journalists protect confidential sources.

  • Obama Forces Out Acting IRS Chief in Bid to Rebuild Trust

    President Barack Obama announced the resignation of acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller amid an escalating scandal over the agency’s selective scrutiny of nonprofit organizations.

  • IRS Delay in Disclosing Groups’ Scrutiny Focus of Probes

    The widening inquiries into the Internal Revenue Service are focusing less on why employees singled out small-government groups for scrutiny and more on agency executives who didn’t inform Congress earlier.

  • Obama Allies See Lax Scandal Response Imperiling Agenda

    Allies of President Barack Obama are warning the administration that it has been too slow in responding to a cascading set of scandals and risks letting Republicans define his second term and derail his agenda.

  • Justice Department Defends Subpoena of Media Phone Records

    The U.S. Justice Department official supervising an investigation of national security leaks to the news media said the government struck the right balance when it subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors without informing the news organization.

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