No checks, please: IRS no longer takes checks for $100M
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Owe the tax man $100 million or more? Your check is no good at the IRS. Starting next year, the IRS says it will reject all checks…
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Bid to shut Guantanamo roils Pentagon, White House, Congress
By LOLITA C. BALDOR The Obama administration’s struggling quest to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is mired in state and federal politics. Frustrated White House and…
On Iran deal, Obama threw everything into uniting Democrats
By ERICA WERNER and JULIE PACE A lame-duck president, an empowered opposition, a looming election: They’re hardly the ingredients for a resounding White House triumph. Yet President Barack Obama clinched…
NYC police boss: We’re trying to apologize to ex-tennis pro
New York City’s police commissioner says he’s been trying to apologize to former tennis professional James Blake, who was handcuffed by officers after a case of mistaken identity. But Police…
Homeland Security taking to the sky in drug smuggling fight
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL As soon as the aging P-3 surveillance plane rumbles off the island runway, a crew of three agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection begins hunting…
Clerk in gay-marriage fight back to work Friday or Monday
By ADAM BEAM After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work as soon as…
House chairman: Planned Parenthood probe protects taxpayers
By ALAN FRAM The chairman of a House committee investigating Planned Parenthood says the probe will protect taxpayers from financing the kind of “horrors” that were suggested by secretly recorded…
Huckabee to join rally for clerk opposed to gay marriage
By DYLAN LOVAN Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a Tuesday rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell…