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That "be on the lookout list" used to flag Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny of their tax-exemption applications?

New Englanders have never been shy about revolting against what they see as unfair food regulations. Remember that whole Boston Tea Party thing?

When the State Department released its annual report on human trafficking Wednesday, we got a chilling reminder that even in 2013, slave labor is still embedded in the global food system.

For a little more than a month now, we've been reporting on the IRS's flagging of Tea Party and conservative groups for extra scrutiny. Through it all, some basic questions remain: Who ordered the targeting? And why?

The salaries of California's state lawmakers and constitutional officers weren’t exempt from years of state budget cuts. But some of those cuts were restored Wednesday when a state commission voted to give lawmakers a pay raise.

Another interview with a key IRS employee, another oblique connection to Washington, D.C., and yet still no explosive revelations in the scandal surrounding the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups.

DeMaio's congressional run and Reform San Diego blur campaign funding lines

Hundreds of pages of transcribed interviews reveal IRS employees in Washington were involved at an early stage in the improper targeting of Tea Party groups - but at least so far the trail stops well short of the White House.

Even in an era of stark political polarization, there are still some issues that can draw Americans together and scramble the normal ideological fault lines.

President Obama has announced his choice of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as the next national security adviser, an appointment that does not require Senate confirmation. Congressional Republicans have sharply criticized Rice for erroneous statements she made after the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, last September.