Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’
In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group. He submitted the paperwork to ...

Ohio GOP wants to tie tuition to voting
A student studies at the University of Cincinnati library. (Photo: Liz Dufour, The Cincinnati Enquirer) CINCINNATI -- Ohio Republicans want to force universities to grant in-state tuition to students from other states if the schools provide ...

Holder in the hot seat at congressional hearing
Amid the ongoing controversies over political discrimination at the IRS and the Justice Department's seizure of two-months-worth of Associated Press (AP) phone records, the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday questioned Attorney General Eric ...

The Taxman Cometh
In The Conversation, David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns every Wednesday. Associated Press, Carper, Thomas R, Cincinnati (Ohio), Homeland Security Department, Internal Revenue Service Political Profiling, Issa, Darrell E ...

Deutsche Post DHL net profits fall 5.9 percent as tougher economy slows freight revenues
FRANKFURT, Germany — Mail, express delivery and freight company Deutsche Post DHL saw its profits dip in the first quarter as the weak global economy saw companies ship fewer goods by air and after a large one-time gain in the year-ago quarter.

U.S. tax chief fired over scandal, Obama announces
Republicans continue to bash the administration ... Obama spoke after meeting with senior Treasury officials on ways to quell the growing uproar after a government watchdog described how poor management led to an "inappropriate" focus on claims ...