A double standard on taxes?
The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn't pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses. Now, as Wednesday's tax deadline...
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Wall Street worried about bonus backlash
As Washington's anti-bonus zeal intensified Friday, alarm spread across Wall Street that the government's taxation fervor could ensnare thousands of workers at major financial firms. Although the bill passed by...
Obama vows to fight AIG bonuses
President Barack Obama, responding to growing taxpayer and political outrage, reversed course Monday and ordered his administration to "pursue every legal avenue" to challenge $165 million in bonuses recently paid...
Inside stimulus bill’s billions in provisions
A $7.2 billion provision in the economic stimulus bill to extend high-speed Internet service to rural and other underserved areas has been hailed in Congress as the 21st Century equivalent...
Security a success; threat fails to pan out
The inauguration of Barack Obama went off without a security-related hitch Tuesday, but underneath the calm veneer, federal authorities were intensively investigating a report that Somalia-based militants wanted to launch...
In ’99, Holder pushed clemency for terrorists
Eric Holder, the nominee for attorney general, repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of conditional clemency...
Obama: We’ll ‘value science’
With the nomination of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu for energy secretary, President-elect Barack Obama made sure no one missed the message in the resume. "His appointment should send a...
Fundraising is raising concerns
Last year, when a labor union for Colorado government workers needed help from Gov. Bill Ritter, he issued an executive order making it possible to organize state employees. Months later,...
Party conventions go in search of cash
Republican Party officials have developed a well-deserved reputation for planning ever more extravagant national conventions, each built on the party's ability to secure abundant cash. But just six weeks before...
Clinton to return $850,000
Confronted with new evidence about fundraiser Norman Hsu, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton announced late Monday that it was returning $850,000 from 260 donors associated with Hsu. The...