TRNS News Notes By Victoria Jones
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Apple Inc. has been shifting billions of dollars offshore to avoid U.S. taxes, according to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Xi Jinping was confirmed as President in mid March, replacing Hu Jintao.
The presence of Hezbollah militants fighting alongside Assad forces increases diplomatic complexity of two-year civil war.
A number of political journalists took to Twitter to subtly criticize the administration for spying on Fox News correspondent James Rosen back in 2009.
The White House continues to say that President Obama was unaware of a Treasury-led investigation into alleged wrongdoing at the IRS.