The Bellingham Herald

POLITICS

The IRS and its tea party tempest

The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.

NATIONAL ELECTIONS

Internal wrangling marks Dems' Senate campaigns

Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.

30 minutes ago

POLITICS

Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms

Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on a principle of taking "action for action" by deepening ties in response to democratic reforms.

40 minutes ago

POLITICS

Obama agenda seems to be weathering controversies

Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.

50 minutes ago

POLITICS

Transportation nominee Anthony Foxx prepares for DC debut at confirmation hearing

Anthony Foxx appears to have a clear path to confirmation as U.S. transportation secretary next week, as virtually all of his 16 predecessors have.

POLITICS

Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

POLITICS

Treasury says U.S. can pay its bills for months, putting off fight with Congress over raising debt ceiling

Any confrontation over the nation’s debt ceiling is now unlikely until after Labor Day.

POLITICS

Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012

Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe...