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President Obama delived the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama delived the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta. ATLANTA — President Obama came to ... [...]

President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and [...]

Senator Kaine spent some time at Trail Days in Damascus and then stopped at a Music Festival at Virginia Highlands Community College. Senator Kaine thinks they need to take a larger broom to the Internal Revenue Service. "There's probably m [...]

POEHLER: Really, Tea Party? Really? You're surprised that you're targeted by the IRS? You named yourself after a group of people who proudly and historically violated tax laws! Look, if I had a vanity license plate that said “Weed 420,” [...]

Carter said the politically conservative Tea Party in general had received its share of criticism in recent years, but he believed his time with the organization has allowed him to look at all sides of any issue. If approved, Carter would serve on th [...]

…even a glance at the most reassuringly-framed wire-service newspaper stories about Friday's hearing on the IRS scandal must leave one seriously appalled. And if one turns to conservative media, perhaps exploring the most telling moments of th [...]

Bhubaneswar, May 19 — Accusing Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of systematically covering up the mining scam in Odisha, the Congress party here Sunday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into it. Former state congress president ... [...]

Attorney General Bill Sorrell joined Rep. Peter Welch today and urged Congress to take steps to combat elder fraud. Attorney General Sorrell testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce. [...]

As he helped a Hilton Garden Inn guest with directions near the lobby doors Thursday evening, an Athens-Clarke police officer said a man sprinted past him, ran to the reception desk and then tried to burst through the locked doors of the hotel's [...]

When private companies and state and local governments in New York are cited for the same violation, the private companies are routinely fined, while the government agencies pay nothing, according to OSHA records examined by the Democrat and ... [...]

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LA MONTE — Jeremy Payne took the lead from Zack VanderBeek on the eighth lap, and he raced to victory in the 40-lap main event Friday night during the 7th Annual Schwab's Tinker Shop Show-Me Shootout at LA Raceway. It was the 13th career Unite [...]