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Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the secretary for Health and Human Services, are using secret government email accounts.

His agency under relentless fire, the new head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged to Congress on Monday that American taxpayers no longer trust the IRS amid a growing number of scandals from the targeting of conservative political groups to lavish spending on employee conferences.

One major principle of Barack Obama's presidency that his foes love to hate that government, when it works right, can be best-equipped to aid and protect Americans is finding fresh currency among some Republicans.

A legislative compromise has been struck on low-income health care, but now Iowa starts the complicated process of putting the plan in place.

President Barack Obama says he is convening a conference on mental illness to bring the issue "out of the shadows."

South Carolina's unemployment agency is making a $144 million early payment toward its debt to the federal government, helping to reduce businesses' insurance taxes, agency officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.