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The 2010 graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point salutes President Back Obama as he is about to walk on stage during graduation ceremonies on May 22, 2010 in West Point, New York. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

Sergeant accused of secretly filming female West Point cadets

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

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and the service secretaries, service chiefs, and senior enlisted advisers to discuss sexual assault in the military in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)

‘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

US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan conduct a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

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

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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

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., leads a hearing investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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

President Barack Obama listens as British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks, during their joint news conference, Monday, May 13, 2013, in the East Room of the White House. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

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

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry makes remarks to the media before a bilateral meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the State Department in Washington February 14, 2013.  (Photo by Mike Theiler/Reuters)

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

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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

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 07: U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with South Korea President Park Geun-hye during a news conference in the East Room at the White House, May 7, 2013 in Washington, DC. The two leaders talked about the 60th anniversary of the U.S. and South Korean alliance and answered questions on growing tensions with North Korea. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in flames, September 11, 2012  (Photo by Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters/Files)

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

Kenneth Feinberg, (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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

File photo: This undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via the Korean News Service (KNS) on November 21, 2012 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) posing at the Ministry of State Security with security personnel during the founding anniversary of the security institution.   (Editorial use only. Photo by KCNA/AFP/Getty Images file)

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

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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

Syrian Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar (C) visits the site of a blast in the Marjeh district of Damascus on April 30 , 2013. A blast in the central Damascus district of Marjeh killed at least 14 people, Syrian state television reported, a day after a Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survived a bomb attack elsewhere in the capital.  (Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ). (Photo by Cliff Owen/AP Photo)

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

A Syrian woman carries her child outside their makeshift house at the refugee camp of Qah along the Turkish border in the village of Atme in the northwestern province of Idlib, on March 17, 2013. The conflict has killed at least 70,000 people, and forced more than one million Syrians to seek refuge abroad. Millions more have been internally displaced. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

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

Image: Former U.S. President Clinton speaks on stage after he received the Advocate for Change Award during the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, California

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

File photo: Michigan U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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

Residents stand near buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Daraya January 17, 2013, in this picture provided by Shaam News Network . (Photo by Kenan Al-Derani/Reuters/Shaam News Network/Handout)

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

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York (MSNBC)

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