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GOP really want to link the IRS scandal to the Affordable Healthcare Act in the minds of Americans. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Top Links: GOP failing to make the IRS-Obamacare link

Top story: The GOP are trying to pound the square peg of the IRS scandal into the round hole of their health care talking points. It’s not… Read More

Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat from North Carolina, on Morning Joe.

Sen. Hagan: Service women live in debilitating fear of sexual assault

“Women actually have told me they’d limit the intake of fluid in the late afternoon, early evening, so they don’t have to use the latrine late at night in the middle of the night, because they’re worried about sexual assault,” North Carolina’s Sen. Kay Hagan said on Monday's Morning Joe. Read More

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Obama addresses challenges of being a black man in Morehouse speech

The president didn't shy away from jokes about graduating or the realities that young, black men face after college. Read More

File Photo: US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefs the press at the Pentagon in 2001. (Photo by Shawn Thew/AFP/Getty Images, File)

Donald Rumsfeld calls for accountability on Benghazi, IRS

The former secretary of defense under President George W. Bush said that the controversy over administration talking points following the attack that left four Americans dead was eroding the trust of the public in Obama's presidency. Read More

Bangladeshi activists hold placards during a procession to mark May Day or International Workers Day in Dhaka on May 1, 2013. Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis joined May Day protests Wednesday to demand the execution of textile bosses over the collapse of a factory complex. AFP PHOTO/Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

Will the global economy address labor standards?

On Sunday's Up with Steve Kornacki, the panel discussed the potential political, economic, and human consequences of the Bangladesh factory collapse. Read More

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Proposed shield law tainted by AP investigation

Is the proposed journalist shield law anything more than a political shield? Read More

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Military rape survivor: ‘I had to lose my career’

One survivor of military sexual assault shares her story. Read More

File Photo: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka responds to a question from the news media after attending a meeting with US President Barack Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA 13 November 2012. (Photo by Shawn Thew/EPA/File)

Tech, labor at odds in immigration fight

Labor is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth while the tech industry is pointing to other studies that say the shortage is very real and is a threat to U.S. competitiveness. Read More

May 12, 2013: Marine Corps wounded warrior, Ronnie Jimenez, celebrates his handcycling victory during the first day of Warrior Games competition at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Over 260 injured and disabled service men and women have gathered in Colorado Springs to compete in seven sports, May 11-16. All branches of the military are represented, including Special Operations and members of the British Armed Forces. (Cal Sport Media via AP Images)

Fighting for gold in the Wounded Warrior Games

The Department of Defense and the U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Military Program have been teaming up since 2010 for the games. Service members from all branches of the military participate. Read More

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and the service secretaries, service chiefs, and senior enlisted advisers to discuss sexual assault in the military in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

‘Scourge’ of sexual assault hurts military effectiveness, says Obama

Women leaders have put a spotlight on the epidemic of military sexual assault. "This is not a sideshow," said Obama in a meeting with his top military and national security team. "This goes to the heart and the core of who we are and how effective we're going to be." Read More

President Obama visited students at Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland.

Video: Obama visits schoolkids, talks animals and addition

Seriously cute: Barack Obama had a tough week, but he walked into a room of people happy to see him Friday morning when he visited children at Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore. Read More

File Photo: Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., works in his office in the Rayburn building on Capitol Hill on Thursday, August 2, 2012. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, File)

Two Dems in top races voted with GOP on health care repeal

Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, had the two closest House races in the country in 2012, and they're top GOP targets looking ahead to 2014 once again. Read More

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House Committee OKs massive cuts to food stamps in farm bill

The 2013 House farm bill would cut more than $20 billion from food stamps funding and cause up to two million people to lose eligibility. Read More

The Internal Revenue Service building at the end of the day in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. 
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Some Tea Party groups probed by IRS had close GOP ties

Some of the conservative groups complaining about intrusive questions from the IRS have close connections to Republican politics, suggesting the scrutiny, in some cases, may have been warranted. Read More

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#ObamacareInThreeWords: GOP vs. White House edition

Republicans took to Twitter in advance of the House vote to appeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday, asking followers to slam #ObamacareInThreeWords. But the White House fought back with three words of its own. Read More

Outgoing acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller (R) and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (L). Russell George are sworn-in during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups on Capitol Hill, May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

Who’s who in the IRS scandal: 7 to know

As Congressional hearings continue, lawmakers will question whether the idea to scrutinize conservative groups was born within the IRS –which the IG report says—or if goes higher in the Obama administration. Here’s a rundown of seven key people involved in the scandal. Read More

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a gun violence summit at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (Photo by Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)

Bloomberg anti-gun group features Aurora family in targeting Sen. Flake

In a TV ad, Caren and Tom Teves, whose son Alex was killed in the Colorado movie theater shooting last summer, say Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake didn’t keep his promise to support tougher background checks. Read More

House Speaker  John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. Also pictured: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif.  (Photo: AP file/J. Scott Applewhite)

Heritage warns GOP leadership to focus on scandal, while Obama focuses on jobs

With their latest marching orders, House Republicans could make the 113th Congress even less productive than the 112th, quite an achievement. Read More

Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite)

Ex-IRS chief: Targeting Tea Party was ‘mistake, not an act of partisanship’

Steven Miller, who stepped down this week as acting commissioner of the IRS amid revelations that the agency targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny, apologized to Congress Friday, but said the effort wasn't deliberately partisan. Read More

This digital composite shows (L-R): Family members of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on May 8, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Outgoing acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Steve Miller arrives to testify before a full House Ways and Means committee on May 17, 2013. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

Poll: Americans lack attention to IRS, Benghazi hearings

A new poll shows the majority of Americans' focus is below average on the IRS scandal and Benghazi congressional hearings. Read More