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The State Department is racing to fulfill recommendations on diplomatic security, but some Republicans have questioned its ability to carry out the changes.

Alienated from the broader Internal Revenue Service culture and given little direction, specialists in a Cincinnati office struggled with the caseload of groups seeking tax exemptions.

A council representing 12,000 officers who issue documents will join a council representing 7,700 deportation agents in fighting a Senate proposal.

Executives from Silicon Valley say that the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company's hiring of temporary foreign worker or laying off an American worker.

At each mention of the government's targeting of conservative groups, the 8,000 delegates at the state party convention in Richmond roared their approval.

President Obama will make a weeklong trip to Africa this summer, the longest journey of his presidency so far to the continent of his father's family, the White House announced on Monday.

Though more controversial amendments to immigration overhaul legislation are expected later this week, Monday's meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to be long - perhaps dragging late into the evening - but largely devoid of partisan fireworks.

The Times answers frequently asked questions about the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of conservative groups.