Posted: 5:29 AM Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, planned on Monday to seek depositions from retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen.
Updated: 1:41 PM President Barack Obama said Monday he will not tolerate political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and promised to get to the bottom of the agency's admitted targeting of conservative groups.
Posted: 11:45 AM The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
Updated: 7:15 AM The president will specifically target women and young people, groups that backed him overwhelmingly during his presidential campaigns.
Posted: 7:11 AM Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona — part of a bipartisan group that helped draft the measure — joined all 10 Democrats in blocking the changes.
Posted: 7:09 AM Four victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing at the height of the civil rights movement are now just a presidential signature away from receiving Congress' highest civilian honor.
Posted: 5:46 AM Davidson County's Election Commission has ousted its elections administrator after a state report found errors in the commission's handling of last year's elections.
Posted: 5:40 AM Tom Ingram, a top Republican political consultant and adviser to Pilot Flying J, is facing possible civil penalties for failing to register as a lobbyist.
Posted: 1:39 PM Supporters of the legislation said the real effect of the measure would have been to indefinitely delay citizenship for the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.
Posted: 7:13 AM On Thursday, Obama was using bustling Austin, Texas, as the backdrop to talk about attracting jobs, teaching skills and ensuring workers can earn a decent living.
Posted: 7:09 AM A bill to enact dramatic changes to the nation's immigration system and put some 11 million immigrants here illegally on a path to citizenship is facing its first congressional test.
Posted: 7:08 AM Rodney Vandenberg was the first to greet Republican Sen. Deb Fischer when she dropped by the Falls City's Chamber of Commerce office last week.
Posted: 6:54 AM Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.
Posted: 6:05 AM The Republican governor is expected to speak at the Wilson County Rotary Club breakfast at the Lebanon Golf and Country Club.
Posted: 8:49 AM In the vast majority of military sexual assault cases — as many as 22,000 in 2012 — the victim chooses not to report the attack or unwanted sexual contact.
Posted: 6:46 AM Sanford, who turns 53 later this month, has now never lost a race in four runs for Congress and two for governor. And he said before the votes were counted Tuesday that if he lost this one, he wouldn't run for office again.
Posted: 6:08 AM A major feature of the measure is that it removes workers' compensation cases from the state's trial courts and instead creates special panels appointed by the governor to hear claims and appeals.
Posted: 5:33 AM Tennessee taxpayers are spending more than $500,000 a year to keep the lights on 24 hours a day at Legislative Plaza and the War Memorial Building, where lawmakers have their offices.
Posted: 1:51 PM The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services will create nine recovery courts to combat mental health and substance abuse issues.
Posted: 1:23 PM The state Department of Children's Services will appeal a Nashville judge's ruling ordering the agency to release records at 50-cents per page.
Posted: 6:24 AM Sanford, once mentioned as a potential GOP presidential contender, saw his political career disintegrate four years ago when he disappeared for five days.
Posted: 5:46 AM Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss sank a hole-in-one when he and a couple of fellow senators played golf with President Barack Obama.
Posted: 5:37 AM The Tennessee Department of Education plans to use nearly $4 million in federal education funds to pay for eight leadership development programs.
Posted: 10:53 AM It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.
Posted: 6:45 AM In a sunbaked stadium filled with more than 57,000 students, friends and relatives, Obama lamented an American political system that gets consumed by "small things" and works for the benefit of society's elite.
