George W. Bush

US Attorney General Eric Holder (AP Photo)

Justice to investigate IRS targeting of tea party

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny over whether they qualified for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric […]

2013/05/14

Ponnequin Wind Farm in Carr, Colorado (AP Photo)

Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America’s green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm’s spinning turbine and falls, […]

2013/05/14

US President Barack Obama with former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter (l-r), at dedication of George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas (AP Photo)

George W. Bush library opens to public

DALLAS (AP) — The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has opened to the public, with the 43rd president greeting 43 schoolchildren who were its first visitors.

2013/05/01

Obama naming NC’s Watt for housing post

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a White House official said Tuesday.

2013/04/30

Former US President George W. Bush speaking at dedication of George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas. (AP Photo)

The Bush and Clinton families, on stage in Texas

DALLAS (AP) — Together on stage, the two families who have dominated American politics for the past two decades joined Thursday to pay tribute to the opening of George W. Bush’s presidential center. Whether the families will have another act — in 2016 — was the unspoken subtext.

2013/04/25