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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steven Miller, who was ousted this week from his position as acting IRS commissioner, will testify before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday amid revelations the agency had improperly targeted conservative groups. Read More

Sincere could count forward and backward, and already knew his colors. "He was just a playful little boy," the family's pastor told MSNBC. Read More

"Assad lost legitimacy when he started firing on his own people and killing his own people," said Obama in a press conference with the Turkish prime minister. But, he added, there's "no magic formula" for stopping the bloodshed in Syria. Read More

An Army officer in the Fort Campbell, Kentucky, sexual assault prevention office has been arrested for violating a restraining order that his ex-wife filed against him. Read More

When it comes to investigations, what should the president know and when should the president know it? Jay Carney and Michael Steele--not surprisingly--have opposing views. Read More

A new study found that pot smokers tend to be skinnier and a better ability to regulate insulin levels. Already, 18 states and D.C. allow medical marijuana, and on Friday, Illinois approved legislation permitting doctors to prescribe medical marijuana. Read More

Investigators concluded their scene excavation of the area damaged by last month's fertilizer plant explosion West, Texas. However, the broader investigation continues. Read More

Women may be moving up the corporate ladder, but new data from Bloomberg shows that the glass ceiling of compensation is hard to break - even at the country's top trade groups. Read More

Majority Leader Harry Reid said there's "a chance" he'll bring up the Employment Non-Discrimination Act for a vote this year. The Senate hasn't voted on the bill since 1996. Will news of Reid's niece be a game-changer? Read More

Action man! It was Obama’s third press conference this week as he works to convey competence and transparency. Read More

"Remember that the earth is warm, that the economy is growing, that the deficit is shrinking, that the healthcare costs are flattening out, that Benghazi was nothing," Carville said Thursday. Read More