NAACP Resists IRS Investigation
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Organization refuses to comply with probe  launched last year after the group's chairman criticized the Bush administration in a speech.
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About 60 charities, churches and other tax-exempt groups are being investigated for potentially breaking federal rules that bar them from participating in political activity, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.
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The longtime leader of a radical Trinidadian Muslim group denied Monday that his organization had any links to an alleged terrorist plot against New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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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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State Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed a lawsuit against brokerage giant Edward D. Jones &amp; Co. on behalf of California investors after refusing to participate in a settlement with the firm.
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A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked an order that the Internal Revenue Service be given the names of people who acquired materials from a Web site on how to defeat the tax laws.
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A federal judge today rejected Bush administration claims that White House visitor logs created by the Secret Service are not public records and ordered information involving the visits of nine conservative religious figures to be released to an advocacy group.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Four enforcement officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected allegations by a former agency attorney of political interference in an insider-trading investigation of Wall Street executive John Mack and a major hedge fund.
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Nearly two years after a controversial decision to investigate the NAACP for criticizing President Bush during the 2004 presidential campaign, the Internal Revenue Service has ruled that the remarks did not violate the group's tax-exempt status.
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Actor Wesley Snipes is a victim of "unscrupulous tax advice" and is being selectively targeted for prosecution on federal tax evasion charges because he is black, his attorneys argue in a motion to dismiss the indictment.
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ST. LOUIS - Missouri's Republican Party wants a Democratic-aligned group to stop circulating a get-out-the-vote flier that includes a 1960s photograph of a firefighter hosing a black man that reads: "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting."   The America Coming Together handout accuses Republicans of conspiring to suppress the black vote through intimidation and such tactics as putting "phony cops at polling places - but only in African American neighborhoods."  "They make African-American voters stand in line for hours, then turn them away from the polls," the flier reads...
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An Arab-American organization and a group opposed to war and racism filed suit charging they were unconstitutionally denied a permit to hold a protest in Central Park during the upcoming Republican National Convention.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker was wrongly barred from raising new arguments in challenging his 1998 conviction for tax conspiracy.
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The older brother of Mayor John F. Street pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he failed to pay taxes on $2 million in income and took consulting fees from companies that wanted city contracts.
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NORTHFIELD, Ill. The SEC won&#39;t recommend enforcement action against Kraft Foods for allegedly helping the Fleming Companies inflate revenue.
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The NAACP is facing an Internal  Revenue Service investigation because the chairman of the civil  rights group criticized President Bush, The Washington Post  reported on Friday, citing documents provided by the group.