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At least 51 killed, including 20 children, as tornado tears through Oklahoma Read More

Rescue crews continue to dig through piles of wreckage looking for survivors after a massive tornado leveled sections of Moore, Oklahoma. At least 51 people are confirmed dead, including 20 children, and another 40 bodies are expected to be added to the toll Tuesday morning. Read More

Kentucky’s Sen. Mitch McConnell has seized on the IRS scandal as he heads into a 2014 reelection bid, a move that may help him shore up support on the right. Read More

Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law allowing physicians to a lethal dose of medication to prescribe dying, mentally competent patients who want to end their lives. Read More

32-year-old Mark Carson was shot and killed blocks away from the Stonewall Inn, where the modern gay rights movement began, reminding the gay community of the struggle still to come. Read More

New details from press secretary Jay Carney are at odds with the impression the White House gave last week, raising questions about whether it’s being fully forthcoming in its public statements on the issue. Read More

The nomination of E.W. Jackson during Saturday’s Virginia GOP convention is about to make an already lively off-year contest in the Old Dominion even more interesting. Read More

Essence and MSNBC are uniting for live coverage of the 2013 Essence Festival, Michelle Ebanks, president of Essence Communications Inc., and Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, announced Monday. Read More

Treasury Department officials were told last year about a probe of the IRS's handling of applications from political groups. But no evidence has yet emerged that key damning details about the targeting were known beyond the IRS itself. Read More

The Department of Justice's secret subpoena of journalists' phone records is "unconstitutional," the president of The Associated Press said on Sunday. Read More

“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

Many key mayoral posts around the country will all be up for grabs this year--some for the first time in a generation. Ones to watch: New York City, Detroit, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Minneapolis. Read More

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

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

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

A trio of scandals seem to have had little effect on the public's feelings about President Barack Obama, who enjoys a 53% approval rating, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll. Read More

Despite decades of promises, military leaders have repeatedly leaned on a single cliché to explain why they've failed survivors of sexual assault. Read More

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

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

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