SALT LAKE CITY — When Utah teenagers want to hit the road this week, they are going to have to hang up their cellphones.

President Obama on Thursday appointed senior budget adviser Daniel Werfel as the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, as that agency manages a scandal stemming from its targeting of conservative groups

Shrink the golden parachute for a leap from the ivy tower.

WASHINGTON – President Obama on Thursday called on Congress to beef up security at U.S. diplomatic facilities, saying the country owes it to the four Americans who died at the Benghazi, Libya, mission last year to protect other personnel serving around the world.

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Thursday he is naming a trusted White House budget official, Daniel Werfel, to serve as his new acting IRS commissioner.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A recent study says Coloradans will consume 2.2 million ounces of marijuana next year.

WASHINGTON -- The Affordable Care Act is sure to survive the latest vote scheduled for Thursday by the House of Representatives to repeal it — since the Senate doesn't plan to take it up and President Obama would veto it if it somehow reached his desk — but the administration's signature legislative achievement still faces serious perils ahead.

Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution.

Hint: It's a reference to the 1998 political movie 'Bulworth,' from Warren Beatty.

American Airlines has extended preferential boarding to customers flying with small or no carry-on bags.

Republican lawmakers joined forces Thursday with tea party leaders on Capitol Hill, calling for a thorough investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny and demanding that the Obama administration come clean about what it knew about the scandal.

SEATTLE (AP) — They’ve spent nearly eight months visiting marijuana grow houses, studying the science of getting high and earning nicknames such as “the queen of weed.”

Police are searching for the man they say burned down a neighbor's house because, as the neighbor tells WXIA, the man was angry that his grass was too tall.

The Republican led house has voted, for the 37th time, to repeal President Obama’s health care law, even though GOP lawmakers know the Senate will not follow suit.

WASHINGTON -- The military's sexual assault crisis is "dangerous to our national security," President Obama said Thursday, and he expressed support for legislation that would limit commanders' ability to overturn military convictions in sexual assault cases.

Investigators have not ruled out an intentional fire being behind explosions at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West that left 15 people dead, the Texas fire marshal said Thursday.

When President Obama this week condemned IRS targeting of conservative groups -- "Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it" -- it wasn't the first time he expressed such emotion.