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Activist and actor Sean Penn appeared on Capitol Hill on Monday, testifying before the subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Penn was introduced to the case in part by fellow actor Mark Wahlberg, regarding the case of Jacob Ostreicher, a New Yorker being held in Bolivia.

Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew in late April about a watchdog report that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups in 2012, Reuters reported.White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was told on April 24 about an upcoming report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on the IRS practice, which an IRS official apologized for on May 10. The question persists whether this information had never been relayed to the president himself, who said that he learned about the report through the media.

An Arizona judge on Monday denied a defense attorney's request for a mistrial in the death penalty phase of Jodi Arias' capital murder trial, after a long-time friend declined to testify as a character witness, citing death threats,