The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- The White House’s chief lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups
- Obama’s approval rating holds steady
- Washington Post gets a rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
- Fixing America’s skills-based gap and income inequality
- Rajat Gupta and the fall of billionaire Raj Rajaratnam
- Pakistan‘s railroads rust and its economy crumbles
- Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under Obamacare by offering very limited plans that can lack key benefits such as hospital coverage
- Liberals vs. conservatives in higher education
- Banks have paid less than half the $5.7 billion in cash owed to troubled homeowners under settlements brokered by the government since 2008
- In rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, Obama wouldn’t solve the underlying problem of consumption, but would put a brake in the process
- President Obama is slated to lay out his administration’s legal justification for using drones against terrorists in a speech on Thursday
- Yahoo! takes Tumblr for $1.1 billion