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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational.

WASHINGTON -- The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency's tougher treatment of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. He said they resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not political bias.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Thursday called for an expanded probe into the Internal Revenue Service, asking that the investigation focus on information released on nine conservative groups, including one that contributed as much as $570,000 in the senator’s latest campaign.

WASHINGTON -- Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.

WASHINGTON — What are the key takeaways from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s report on the Internal Revenue Service’s decision to subject conservative groups to heightened scrutiny? We read the report so you didn’t have to, and here are the top five, plus a bonus question:

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny over whether they qualified for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.

About a half-hour into a conference call with reporters Friday afternoon, senior Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner said something she will regret.

“I’m not good at math,” she confessed as she tried to summon a statistic.