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Lois Lerner, the Director of Tax-Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service, now on administrative leave, took the 5th on Wednesday at a House hearing about the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups. Read More

Chris Matthews predicts: "Most people will vote for the Democratic ticket in Virginia simply to avoid voting in the fringe." Read More

A bill that designates school employees to act as armed school marshals on public campuses advances in Texas, while gun rights advocates file a lawsuit in federal court against Connecticut's new gun control law. Read More

A bill that would institute a nation-wide on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy on Thursday went before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which has no female members. Haven't we seen this before? Read More

Missing from the streets of New York City this week: A sea of men in uniform. The city's famed Fleet Week, scheduled to run May 23-30 this year, was canceled due to sequestration. Read More

Sen. Ted Cruz brought Republican Party infighting to the public stage on Wednesday, slamming his colleagues as untrustworthy on the matter of spending. Read More

First lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also made the Forbes list, which is comprised of 100 women from around the world. Read More

Oklahoma’s Sen. Tom Coburn believes any aid given to his state following the deadly and destructive tornadoes that devastated his home state must be offset by spending cuts. Read More

More than 1,300 activists and politicians signed a call to close the Guantanamo internment camp in an ad featured in Thursday's New York Times on the morning of the president's national security speech. Read More

“If you’re in my shoes and you have the IRS targeting conservative groups, tea party groups, and any person critical of the White House, what would you think? Give me a break!” Reince Priebus said on Thursday's Morning Joe. Read More

State shopping usually doesn't work out well for a hopeful pol, with carpetbagger charges writing themselves, and tenuous ties to a state are easy for opponents to attack. Read More

In a "barbaric" attack, a man walking near a military barracks in south London was hacked to death by two assailants. Read More

Asked about possible Latino staffers, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said,"If you can find us one let me know." Read More

In his national security speech on Thursday, the president will explain his counterterrorism strategy--which may ultimately define his legacy on human rights. A preview of the speech: Read More

Will Republicans demand offsets for the relief spending needed for Moore, Ok., residents digging out from Monday's tornado? After all, many GOPers opposed the Sandy relief bill. Read More

In a letter addressed to Congressional leaders, Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that the U.S. killed four Americans, including Anwar al-Awklaki, in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. Read More

The tornado in Oklahoma is reviving the debate about federal disaster relief funds, with two of the state's senators voting against FEMA funds in 2011. Republicans blocking natural disaster aid is nothing new. Here's a look back. Read More

The closures, opposed by the local teachers union and many community members, amount to the largest mass shutdown in the history of American public education. Read More

A sergeant and decorated Iraq War veteran on staff at the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point is accused of secretly video taping female cadets in the Academy's showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms. Read More

Lois Lerner's decision to take the fifth stirred up anger among Republicans. "She ought to stand here and answer our questions," Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina declared during a heated congressional hearing. Read More