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
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‘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
Obama and Syria: What happened to the ‘red line?’
"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
White House releases Benghazi emails as scandal grows
The talking points have been an issue of contention, not just in recent days but over the past eight months. Republicans charged the Obama administration with staging a "cover up" by presenting the siege as stemming from a spontaneous protest, when the violence was later proven to be a planned terrorist attack. Read More
GOP prepares investigations of White House under siege
Even on a good week, an aggressive Oversight Committee Chairman with a conservative agenda could threaten the Obama administration's legislative priorities. On a week like this, Darrell Issa's impact is far greater--and growing. Read More
Defiant Obama calls Benghazi controversy ‘a political circus’
The president called out Republican leadership as insistent on re-litigating the eight month old controversy based on purely political motivation, and intent on challenging the credibility of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others, including himself. Read More
Kerry on Benghazi hearings: ‘I haven’t learned anything new’
Secretary of State John Kerry, who joined NBC News's Andrea Mitchell in a Google+ Hangout Friday, responded to accusations from congressional Republicans that the administration was attempting to "cover-up" its response to the consulate attacks. Read More
Benghazi siege: New testimony, old political games
The former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya, Greg Hicks, recounted a harrowing night at the U.S. Embassy in Libya's capital on September 11, 2012, trading dropped calls and text messages with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who by morning would be dead. Read More
Obama: ‘North Korea has failed again’
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye joined President Obama in a press conference Tuesday, where the two emphasized their countries' warm relationship and warned North Korea not to pursue its nuclear ambitions. Read More
State Department witnesses will challenge official Benghazi attack account
The former Deputy Mission Chief in Libya, Gregory Hicks, is expected to testify Wednesday morning that the military overruled his attempts to send four special forces operatives from Tripoli to subdue the uprising at the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Hicks believes the special forces action could have saved two American lives. Read More
One Fund Boston: ‘How do you play God?’
"It's Solomonic, really," Feinberg said. "We have four [families] who lost loved ones, four lives lost. We've got a terrible number of double amputees and single amputees.... And you try and allocate the money to the most seriously injured or lives lost." Read More
Google: North Korea and ‘the new corruption’
Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of the book "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Businesses," talked about their visit to North Korea (which the U.S. State department did not approve). Read More
Congressman Steve Israel: ‘Endless detention is not a good idea’
New York Congressman Steve Israel echoed the Obama administration's pledge to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, saying it should be closed "in a safe and sensible way." Read More
Obama weighs options on Syria: I’ve got to have the facts
"There are some options we would not otherwise exercise that we would strongly consider," the president said Tuesday. Read More
McCain: Boots on the ground in Syria is ‘worst thing US could do’
Lawmakers continued to call on the White House to take action on Syria, but even one of the more hawkish members of the GOP stopped well short of calling for the United States to send in troops. Read More
Drumbeat begins for action on Syria
While the drumbeat for U.S. action in Syria grew, the White House continued to urge caution as it examines intelligence that the country used chemical weapons on its people. Read More
Welcome to Twitter, @billclinton! (He already has 400,000 followers)
The 42nd president, always happy to have an audience, has joined Twitter--for real this time. Read More
Mike Rogers: Boston suspect read his rights too soon
House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and former FBI agent, complained that a federal magistrate had possibly stopped the FBI from gaining valuable intelligence by stepping in to advise the suspect of his legal rights. Read More
Syria at ‘red line’: Chemical weapon use confirmed
President Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line" and prompt unspecified U.S. action. Read More
Guess who’s coming to dinner? The Senate women’s caucus
All 20 women senators were slated to join President Obama for dinner at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday, after New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand suggested inviting the president to one of the group's quarterly meetings. Read More
