Department of Justice

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  Tea party storm confined to IRS, for now

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 23, 2013

  Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

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  Federal dysfunction may be built in

  By Tom Raum  |  May 22, 2013

  Despite years of hand-wringing in both parties, little progress has been made toward changing congressional rules on filibusters, senatorial "holds" on presidential nominees and other stalling ploys.

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  IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing

  By Alan Fram and Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 21, 2013

  A key figure in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

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  More Obama aides knew of IRS audit

  By Charles Babington, Julie Pace  |  May 20, 2013

  The president's chief of staff and others in the administration did not tell him the IRS was targeting conservative groups, leaving him to learn about it on news reports.

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  The IRS and its tea party tempest

  By Calvin Woodward  |  May 20, 2013

  The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.

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  Ousted IRS chief regrets treatment of tea party

  By Alan Fram, Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 17, 2013

  A top House Republican charges that the IRS's improper use of tougher scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status seems part of a broader pattern of intimidation and cover-ups by the Obama administration.

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  Obama picks budget official to run IRS

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 17, 2013

  President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups.

• IRS chief’s ouster isn’t ending investigations

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.

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  Obama fires IRS commissioner

  By Stephen Ohlemacher  |  May 16, 2013

  President Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the IRS late Wednesday amid an outcry over the improper targeting of tea party groups.

• Drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty

  By Eric Tucker  |  May 13, 2013

  A subsidiary of an Indian pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $500 million fines and civil penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying about tests to federal regulators.