NAACP LEADERS SAY THEY&#39;LL FIGHT IRS PROBE
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WASHINGTON - The NAACP revealed Friday that the Internal Revenue Service has warned the 95-year-old civil rights organization that it might lose its tax-exempt status because it publicized a speech by its chairman that criticized the performance of
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The Internal Revenue Service is looking for more than 600 Arkansans whose federal income tax refund checks totaling almost $424,000 were returned to the IRS as undeliverable by the Postal Service.
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A Democratic congressman and Jesse Jackson said Wednesday they will continue to investigate complaints of election irregularities in Ohio, but they won't call for a delay in the official certification process.
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DETROIT -- Julian Bond wants people to understand that when the NAACP symbolically buries the N-word on Monday, the effort will be led by the younger members of the venerable civil rights organization.
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Federal securities regulators will throw their weight behind investors in a big-money dispute that could resolve whether shareholders can sue bankers who enabled their corporate clients to engage in fraud, two people familiar with the decision said yesterday.
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Cracker Barrel has agreed to an $8.7 million settlement to resolve all lawsuits brought or supported by the NAACP that accused the restaurant chain of segregating blacks in the smoking section and denying them service.
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For five years in a row, President Bush has declined invitations to address the annual NAACP convention. This year, with the Senate poised to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Bush said yes.
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Forty-four former state attorneys general have asked Congress to investigate whether politics at the Justice Department influenced the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on corruption charges.
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The prospect that Rehnquist or another justice will step down fires up and frightens activists. By David G. Savage. WASHINGTON -- Social conservatives like Gary Bauer and liberal advocates like Ralph Neas have found something to agree on this year.
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Newspaper tycoon Conrad Black&#39;s Hollinger Inc. says it may face civil action for alleged securities violations from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Officials representing business groups, financial service companies, banks and insurance firms are gearing up for a legislative fight over Social Security, telling White House officials Thursday they are solidly behind President Bush's desire to remake the retirement system next year.
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A gay rights group is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries following the preacher's recent remark that he would "kill" any gay man who looked at him.
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The U.S. Senate Finance Committee said on Wednesday it asked the Internal Revenue Service to update it on the latest and greatest tax avoidance schemes including those using nonprofit groups.
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A Southern Baptist preacher who endorsed GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee on church letterhead said Wednesday he was being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for mixing religion with politics.
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The NAACP on Tuesday called for a U.S. Justice Department investigation into the case of a black college student who died after a New Year's Eve scuffle with white bouncers at a French Quarter karaoke bar.
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WASHNGTON -- The NAACP did not violate the conditions of its tax-exempt status when its chairman gave a speech that criticized President Bush, according to a newly released letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the civil rights group.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 -- A Republican congressman from California defended his reputation this week, as FBI investigators look into charges that he improperly delayed paying taxes on several lucrative land deals.