Evidence emerges that Obama administration official knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups.

CNN Poll: Have new controversies hurt Obama?  Has GOP overreacted?  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama comes out of what was arguably the worst week of his presidency with his approval rating holding steady, according to a new national poll.  —  But a CNN/ORC International survey …

Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam  —  Former Google executive Barney Jones has a cache of 100,000 emails and documents (Paul Vicente)  —  A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds …

Obama Aide: ‘Irrelevant Fact’ Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks  —  Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said it's an “irrelevant fact” where the president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September 11, 2012:  —  Host Chris Wallace reminds Pfeiffer that Obama didn't really talk …

Killing in Greenwich Village Looks Like Hate Crime, Police Say  —  The violence took place just blocks from the Stonewall Inn, perhaps the most important landmark of the gay liberation struggle.  A young man screamed antigay slurs at another man on a street in Greenwich Village on Friday night …

Climate Warnings, Growing Louder  —  The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years increases the pressure on President Obama to deliver on his pledges to limit this country's greenhouse gas emissions.

President Obama exercises a fluid grip on the levers of power  —  President Obama's professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists' sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency …

Republican Virginia Lt. Governor Nominee: Obama Sees World “From A Muslim Perspective”  —  “Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities.  He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective.  —  The Virginia Republican Party picked conservative minister E.W. Jackson as their nominee for lieutenant governor Saturday night.

At I.R.S., Unprepared Office Seemed Unclear About the Rules  —  During the summer of 2010, the dozen or so accountants and tax agents of Group 7822 of the Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati got a directive from their manager.  A growing number of organizations identifying themselves …