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  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller, right, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. At left is J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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  • The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency's tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
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  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller, right, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. At left is J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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  • President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the ouster of the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following disclosures that the agency targeted conservative political groups.
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  • The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another probe concludes that lax management enabled agents to improperly target tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status.
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  • The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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  • Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
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  • A top White House adviser is blaming the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on tea party Republicans, whom he says were unwilling to compromise on how to reduce the federal debt.
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  • Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann pointed to one program in particular Monday when talking about wasteful government spending: a multibillion dollar settlement paid to black farmers, who claim the federal government discriminated against them for decades in awarding loans and other aid.
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  • Controversy over Palins cookie comments at Pa. school
  • Palin is calling Pa.'s plans to issue new guidelines limiting the number of sweets allowed in classrooms: "a nanny state run amok".
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  • InterAction
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  • Tea Party Rallies
  • Tea party-backed candidates helped and hindered Republicans, injecting enthusiasm into campaigns but losing Senate seats held by Democrats in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada that the GOP once had big hopes of capturing.
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  • Tea Party Rallies
  • Analysts and political activists say the tea party is failing to attract young voters.
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  • Peter DeStefano
  • Democratic leaders in southern New Jersey recruited a fake tea-party candidate, a newspaper reported Friday.
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  • Peter DeStefano
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  • christine odonnell witch ad
  • The marketing firm hoping to convince Delaware voters that Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is not a witch is no stranger to provocative ads.
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  • Delaware's GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell is scheduled to speak at the conservative Family Research Council's fifth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington.
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  • Christine O'Donnell wins Republican nomination for Senate in Delaware.
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  • The aftershocks of a political earthquake are still being felt in Delaware.
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  • John Krupa, a self-proclaimed "tea party" candidate for governor, has withdrawn from the race in the face of a challenge of his petition signatures.
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