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Top IRS official didn't reveal tea party targeting

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted, even after he had been briefed on the matter. The IRS said Monday that Miller was first

China investigates top planning official for graft

By GILLIAN WONGAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) - Authorities have launched an investigation into the deputy head of China's economic planning agency, the latest high-level official to become ensnared in the new leadership's anti-corruption drive. The ruling Communist Party's disciplinary

Calif. struggles with experiment to shift inmates

By DON THOMPSONAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison population in response to a federal court order. Under the law, people convicted of lesser felonies are now serving

Key events in Pakistan's political history

By The Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) - A chronology of key events in Pakistan's history: -Aug. 14, 1947: Pakistan is founded when British rule over the region ends and the Asian subcontinent is partitioned into Islamic Pakistan, divided into East and West, and predominantly Hindu India. -Sept