Updated: 5:04 PM A day after she refused to answer hearings at a congressional hearing, the IRS official who oversaw targeting of conservative groups was replaced.

Posted: 3:16 PM More congressional hearings are expected next month into IRS targeting of conservative groups.

Updated: 3:34 PM The president Thursday defended the use of drone strikes against U.S. citizens abroad whom the administration believes to be a national security threat.

Posted: 1:08 PM The U.S. House Thursday approved a measure that would peg student loan interest rates to financial markets.

Posted: 1:01 PM Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, the government said Thursday.

Posted: 1:37 PM The U.S. Senate has rejected a GOP bid to turn the food stamp program over to the states.

Posted: 1:20 PM The IRS official at the center of the scandal engulfing the agency told Congress she’s done nothing wrong and then invoked the Fifth Amendment.

Posted: 1:12 PM The president plans to visit tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla. Sunday.

Updated: 12:56 PM Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says the IRS’ targeting of conservative political groups was “unacceptable and inexcusable.”

Posted: 5:55 PM Vermont has become the fourth state to allow physician-assisted suicide.

Posted: 4:18 PM Senior White House officials first learned on April 24 of an audit targeting inappropriate targeting of conservative groups by the IRS, but didn’t tell the president.

Posted: 12:28 PM Democrats are striking back after two years of GOP success in passing voter ID laws and purging voter rolls.

Posted: 12:13 PM A senior White House adviser insisted Sunday that the president first learned that the IRS targeted tea party groups from news accounts.

Posted: 12:01 PM The CEO of The Associated Press says the government’s seizure of journalists’ phone records was unconstitutional.

Posted: 3:23 PM The GOP is hoping the scandal that’s engulfed the IRS could snag the president’s health care overhaul.

Posted: 1:03 PM The president is hosting a concert next week honoring Carole King.

Posted: 1:06 PM The number of Americans seeking jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in six weeks, the government said Thursday.

Posted: 12:52 PM A U.S. House committee Thursday approved a bill that would tie student loan interest rates to financial markets.

Posted: 6:17 PM The acting commissioner of the IRS has resigned after an investigation found the agency improperly targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama said Wednesday evening.

Updated: 3:45 PM The FBI’s investigation of the IRS could include potential civil rights violations, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

Posted: 1:49 PM The VA is requiring thousands of workers to put in some overtime in an effort to reduce its backlog.

Updated: 12:19 PM U.S. House Speaker John Boehener wants to know who’s going to jail in the wake of the revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups in the 2010 and 2012 campaigns.

Posted: 6:11 PM U.S. Reps. John Carter, R-Round Rock and Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, have filed legislation that would provide an incentive for gun owners to secure firearms.

Posted: 2:39 PM Civilian employees of the Department of Defense will be furloughed for as much as 11 days beginning in July under a plan announced Tuesday by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel.

Posted: 1:31 PM Two Republican governors are calling for a special prosecutor to investigate after the IRS admitted it targeted conservative political groups for particular scrutiny during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns.