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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew called IRS screening of Tea Party groups unacceptable, saying the administration of the nation’s tax system should stay free of political preferences.
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The U.S. Senate’s first hearing on the Internal Revenue Service controversy looks more like two: Republicans pressed the tax agency for details of what happened and what they knew, while Democrats sought tougher rules for nonprofit political groups.
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An Uzbek national charged by the U.S. with conspiring to aid an Islamic terrorist group in his native country pleaded not guilty in federal court in Boise, Idaho.
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An Uzbek national living in Boise, Idaho, faces U.S. charges that he conspired to support a terrorist organization, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and taught others how to make bombs.
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The U.S. economy will continue to recover until at least 2015 without tumbling into a recession, achieving the sustained growth that has eluded it since the last slump ended four years ago, according to a Bloomberg poll.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. House members has reached a tentative agreement on a comprehensive revision of the U.S. immigration system, according to three lawmakers, as a Senate committee proceeds with its own plan.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. House members will introduce a comprehensive immigration plan next month that covers 95 percent of the issues they have been negotiating, said Texas Republican John Carter.
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An immigration proposal in the Republican-led U.S. House would be a step back to a World War II-era program and deny basic rights for migrant workers, the president of the United Farmworkers Union said.
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Following is the text of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor as released by the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska:
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With 15 U.S. states opting out of President Barack Obama’s Medicaid expansion, hospitals that treat poor and uninsured patients are asking the government to delay $64 billion in planned funding cuts.
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