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Explaining the Connection Between Obama's Health Care Law and the IRS Even before news organizations confirmed that Sarah Hall Ingram, who headed the tax-exempt division of the IRS, would lead agency's implementation of the ACA, Republicans wasted no time trying to link the scandal to the law. As the investigation into the IRS' targeting of conservative groups begins, here's an explainer to answer the role that the tax-collecting agency plays in the health care law's implementation. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 4:39pm
Obama's Troubles Could Put Massachusetts Senate Seat In Play -- Again Is history repeating itself in Massachusetts? The off-year Senate campaign between Democratic Rep. Edward Markey and former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez is already closer than expected, evoking memories of the last Senate special election in Massachusetts, when Republican Scott Brown stunned Democrat Martha Coakley. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 3:49pm
Good-Bye, MetroPCS: Only Verizon Now Opposes Net Neutrality When T-Mobile sealed its merger with MetroPCS, we knew that several things were going to happen. T-Mobile would get MetroPCS's customers, for starters. And T-Mobile would start bringing 4G LTE online across the country. But what we couldn't predict was that the deal would have an impact on the Internet's future. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 3:40pm
An Instagram Tour of Louisville Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 2:24pm
So, a Fed Chairman Is Speaking at Your Graduation "The future of our country is in jeopardy." It's what every college graduate wants to hear while sitting up on that stage, sweltering in the spring heat with friends and family watching. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 2:15pm
The Former Head of the FCC Is Now on Twitter Julius Genachowski may no longer be a public servant. But that doesn't mean he's out of the public eye. On his last day as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Genachowski launched his own Twitter account. Of the four tweets he's posted so far, though, only one of them was written from his own account: @fcc It's been an honor to serve as FCC Chairman. Thank you POTUS, FCC staff, and friends throughout this vibrant sector. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 1:54pm
Are Recessions Good for Your Health? With the recovery underway, things are starting to look up. Consumer confidence rose to a six-year high on Friday, the housing sector is improving, the economic gears are turning. But there may also be a less-welcome rebound: Fatalities could rise. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 1:01pm
Watch the First Campaign Ad to Invoke the Newtown Shootings In the first campaign ad to explicitly mention the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Ed Markey on Thursday accused Republican opponent Gabriel Gomez of opposing the kind of gun-control measures that could have prevented the mass shootings that killed 26 people in Connecticut earlier this year. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 12:04pm
You Know What Really Risks National Security? Leak Investigations. A year ago, the Associated Press discovered a foiled Qaida plot. Worried about the safety of an informant in the case, the CIA asked the AP to delay publishing the story until its spy could be secured. The AP agreed. Five days later, the CIA told the AP that its national security concerns were “no longer an issue.” As a seasoned AP team of reporters and editors made final edits to their scoop, the CIA backtracked and asked the news agency to delay the story one more day. New national security concerns? Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 11:17am
How Republicans Will Tie Obama to the IRS Scandal So far, President Obama's inner circle has yet to be directly implicated in the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's selective targeting of tea party groups for special scrutiny. But a top Republican leading the charge into what went wrong at the tax-collecting agency offered a peek into the playbook for how Republicans hope to tie the president to the scandal on Friday. It centers on what William Wilkins, the chief counsel of the IRS, knew and when he knew it. The chief counsel is one of only two political appointees at the sprawling agency. Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:08am

Explaining the Connection Between Obama's Health Care Law and the IRS

Even before news organizations confirmed that Sarah Hall Ingram, who headed the tax-exempt division of the IRS, would lead agency's implementation of the ACA, Republicans wasted no time trying to link the scandal to the law.

As the investigation into the IRS' targeting of conservative groups begins, here's an explainer to answer the role that the tax-collecting agency plays in the health care law's implementation.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 4:39pm

Obama's Troubles Could Put Massachusetts Senate Seat In Play -- Again

Is history repeating itself in Massachusetts?

The off-year Senate campaign between Democratic Rep. Edward Markey and former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez is already closer than expected, evoking memories of the last Senate special election in Massachusetts, when Republican Scott Brown stunned Democrat Martha Coakley.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 3:49pm

Good-Bye, MetroPCS: Only Verizon Now Opposes Net Neutrality

When T-Mobile sealed its merger with MetroPCS, we knew that several things were going to happen. T-Mobile would get MetroPCS's customers, for starters. And T-Mobile would start bringing 4G LTE online across the country. But what we couldn't predict was that the deal would have an impact on the Internet's future.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 3:40pm

An Instagram Tour of Louisville

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 2:24pm

So, a Fed Chairman Is Speaking at Your Graduation

"The future of our country is in jeopardy." It's what every college graduate wants to hear while sitting up on that stage, sweltering in the spring heat with friends and family watching.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 2:15pm

The Former Head of the FCC Is Now on Twitter

Julius Genachowski may no longer be a public servant. But that doesn't mean he's out of the public eye. On his last day as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Genachowski launched his own Twitter account. Of the four tweets he's posted so far, though, only one of them was written from his own account:

@fcc It's been an honor to serve as FCC Chairman. Thank you POTUS, FCC staff, and friends throughout this vibrant sector.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 1:54pm

Are Recessions Good for Your Health?

With the recovery underway, things are starting to look up. Consumer confidence rose to a six-year high on Friday, the housing sector is improving, the economic gears are turning. But there may also be a less-welcome rebound: Fatalities could rise.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 1:01pm

Watch the First Campaign Ad to Invoke the Newtown Shootings

In the first campaign ad to explicitly mention the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Ed Markey on Thursday accused Republican opponent Gabriel Gomez of opposing the kind of gun-control measures that could have prevented the mass shootings that killed 26 people in Connecticut earlier this year.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 12:04pm

You Know What Really Risks National Security? Leak Investigations.

A year ago, the Associated Press discovered a foiled Qaida plot. Worried about the safety of an informant in the case, the CIA asked the AP to delay publishing the story until its spy could be secured. The AP agreed.

Five days later, the CIA told the AP that its national security concerns were “no longer an issue.” As a seasoned AP team of reporters and editors made final edits to their scoop, the CIA backtracked and asked the news agency to delay the story one more day. New national security concerns?

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 11:17am

How Republicans Will Tie Obama to the IRS Scandal

So far, President Obama's inner circle has yet to be directly implicated in the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's selective targeting of tea party groups for special scrutiny.

But a top Republican leading the charge into what went wrong at the tax-collecting agency offered a peek into the playbook for how Republicans hope to tie the president to the scandal on Friday.

It centers on what William Wilkins, the chief counsel of the IRS, knew and when he knew it. The chief counsel is one of only two political appointees at the sprawling agency.

Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:08am

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