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• "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the Internal Revenue Service, responded Friday when asked if he had any contact with the White House about targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for special treatment.
• "The president's re-election campaign?" persisted Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
• "No," said Miller.
• The hearing took place at the end of a week in which Republicans repeatedly assailed Obama and were attacked by Democrats in turn -- yet sweeping immigration legislation advanced methodically toward bipartisan approval in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The measure "has strong support of its own in the Senate," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a member of the panel.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On May 19, 1943, in his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's full support in the fight against Japan. That same day, top U.S. and British officials meeting in Washington reached agreement on May 1, 1944 as the date for the D-Day invasion of France (the operation ended up being launched more than a month later).
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• On this date:
• In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.
• In 1780, a mysterious darkness enveloped much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon.
• In 1909, the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets), under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev, debuted in Paris.
• In 1913, California Gov. Hiram Johnson signed the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting "aliens ineligible to citizenship" from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese.
• In 1921, Congress passed, and President Warren G. Harding signed, the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
• In 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in Dorset, (Continued on page 25)
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