Four agencies close for business today.

Money and power speak loudly, which explains why Karl Rove and SEIU have not trouble getting tax exemptions (and donor-hiding) privileges, while upstart groups run afoul of the IRS.

Obama chops off the head of Steven Miller, acting commissioner of the IRS.

In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months’ worth of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot last year.

In American history, the Department of Interior has been a school for scandal.

She bounds up a peak, leaving the reporter panting, and reflects on her early lessons in D.C. politics. From Patty Murray: always return a lawmaker's phone call same day.

The accidental explosion destroyed a four-block area in the small town north of Waco. The fertilizer plant contained ammonium nitrate, a chemical similar to the one used in the Oklahoma City bombing.

The Supreme Court said today they will not hear a case regarding the Second Amendment. The case challenged a New York law that requires people wishing to carry weapons in public to "demonstrate a special need for self protection."