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The White House acknowledged on Monday that senior White House aides knew about the Inspector General probe into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups as early as last month, though they did not inform the President about the matter.White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Monday that officials, including Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough, learned April 16th about the review of whether or not the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for heightened scrutiny. The White House also said on Monday that the chief lawyer for the White House learned of the investigation on April 22, though a member of her staff learned of it the same time as McDonough.Continue Reading

Newton Russell, who represented a swath of the San Fernando Valley in the state Legislature for more than three decades, died Saturday at his Southern California home. He was 85 and succumbed, his family said, to lung cancer. Newton Russell

GOP aides tell me the struggle will be to take this IRS thing from being about TP victims to being about an administration's corruption — @robertcostaNRO via web Who needs facts when you have conclusions? Sure, having reality on your side might be nice, but if you live in the bubble, you don't need facts to spin the bubble—and you don't care about what happens outside the bubble.

University of California officials have gone to court to stem the extent of a two-day strike set to begin Tuesday for thousands of patient-care technicians at UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals. Medical workers stage a walkout Tuesday, with support of some nurses, at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Sacramento.