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President Obama will make his first major counter terrorism speech of his second term today. He plans to put limits on the nation's use of unmanned drone strikes that have rankled liberals and libertarians alike. Read More

Tea Party groups hope the scandal at the IRS fires up their base the same way as heath care reform did in 2010, plus other political stories that are driving our day. Read More

The city of Moore, Oklahoma, has resumed the search for survivors this morning after Monday's massive tornado. Read More

The chief White House lawyer learned last month that the Inspector General at the Treasury Department had finished his audit of the IRS, and its heightened… Read More

House Republicans are holding the first of several hearings on the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service. GOP Rep. Charles Boustany, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, says “I just refuse to believe that lower-level I.R.S. personnel were making these kinds of decisions.” Read More

The trifecta of controversy that has plagued his administration over the past week is still swirling, but with the resignation yesterday of the acting IRS commissioner, the president may be starting to take back control. Read More

The White House is trying to distance itself from the IRS scandal and the Department of Justice's seizure of journalists' phone records. Read More

As if the IRS and Benghazi weren't enough, Washington is abuzz this morning with a third controversy: The Justice Department's secret seizure of phone records from the Associated Press reporters. Read More

The investigation into Benghazi and Republicans seizing upon a scandal in the IRS may be the beginning of President Obama's second-term curse. Read More

Republicans are stepping up their attacks against Hillary Clinton over her role during and after the attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi...plus other political stories that are driving our day. Read More

Gregory Hicks, a veteran diplomat who was the highest-ranking American in Libya after the attacks in Benghazi, testified before a Congressional panel yesterday that questions he raised about the attacks led to his demotion, which the State Department denies. Read More

We begin Tuesday morning in South Carolina, where voters in the 1st Congressional District are heading to the polls to decide whether Mark Sanford or Elizabeth Colbert Busch should represent them in the United States Congress. Read More

A pair of air strikes against targets in Syria have been attributed to Israel, but the Israelis may be more interested in sending a message to Iran than they are about the Syrian civil war. Read More

Vice President Joe Biden is renewing his push on gun safety, as the NRA conference gets underway in Houston. Biden travels to South Carolina, an early 2016 primary state. Read More

Senator Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, hinted at the real reason why background checks failed--Republicans didn't want to give President Obama a victory. Read More

New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte was the only 'no' vote in the Northeast on expanding background checks for gun purchases. Now she's facing the heat at home. Read More

Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch debated last night ahead of the special election to fill the vacant House seat in South Carolina. And it didn't take long for Colbert Busch to bring up Sanford's infidelity. Read More

The pressure is mounting on President Obama to take action on Syria, and more political stories that are driving our day. Read More

Now that U.S. intelligence has concluded that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons, something that the president said would be a "game changer", pressure is mounting for action. Read More

As we watch the dedication today of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, we'll be watching interaction between Bush and his successor, Barack Obama. The two presidents seldom talk, and Obama has spent much of his presidency undoing the accomplishments of his predecessor. Read More