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The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the IRS just as another probe concludes that lax management enabled agents to improperly target tea party groups.

Low losses from natural disasters and higher prices in the key markets of Germany, Turkey and Latin America lifted profits at German insurance company Allianz SE during the first quarter.

A long-awaited state budget that funds operations for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was introduced Tuesday in the Arizona Senate and could come up for a vote later this week, clearing the way for a debate on Gov. Jan Brewer's Medicaid expansion.

More than a third of Medicare Part D beneficiaries say they have daily concerns about their prescription drug costs.

Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.

As New Hampshire prepares to implement the federal health care overhaul law, it could learn some lessons from its experience with providing subsidized health insurance to children over the years, a policy expert told lawmakers Tuesday.