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Ark. treasurer resigns amid charges she took cash

1 hour 51 mins ago

Arkansas' state treasurer resigned Tuesday after being accused of taking at least $36,000 in cash _ sometimes stashed in a pie box _ from a broker who later came to manage a large share of the state's $3.3 billion investment portfolio. Full Story

Details of the Senate immigration bill

24 mins ago

A look at the 867-page immigration overhaul bill approved Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee: Full Story

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

51 mins ago

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. Full Story

House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts

63 mins ago

Republicans controlling the House pressed ahead Tuesday with slashing cuts to domestic programs far deeper than the cuts departments like Education, Interior and State are facing under an already painful round of automatic austerity. Full Story

FBI ID's Benghazi suspects _ but no arrests yet

1 hour 37 mins ago

The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers. Full Story

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IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing

1 hour 49 mins ago

Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Full Story

McKeon: State didn't ask for help before Benghazi

2 hours 26 mins ago

A senior House Republican says U.S. military forces weren't in a position to help those under attack at a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya because the State Department had failed to ask the Pentagon for help in securing the compound before the raid. Full Story

Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse

2 hours 32 mins ago

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress toward democracy. Full Story