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With relations strained over Syria negotiations, another bump was added to the rocky road of U.S.-Russia relations when U.S. diplomat Ryan Fogle was arrested by Russian authorities this week accused of being a CIA spy attempting to turn a Russian intelligence agent. Read More

Ambassador Thomas Pickering stood by the final report of the Accountability Review Board Sunday and said that senior State Department officials had been held accountable as Republicans, including Rep. Darrel Issa of California, call for more hearings. Read More

Revisions made to the Obama administration's talking points following the Sept. 11 attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, are now playing a central role in the ongoing controversy over the administrations response to the attacks. Read More

Charter school performance has come under increased scrutiny–and suspicion–while the push at state and federal levels for “school choice” has not slowed. Read More

Which side of the Syrian conflict deserves American support is far from clear with Iran-backed Syria on one side and Al Qaeda militias on the other, said Florida's Republican Rep. Tom Rooney Sunday on Weekends with Alex Witt. Read More

Investigators are building a case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and three of his friends accused of obstructing justice. Read More

The Massachusetts Public Defenders Office, which has already had 16 furlough days, will be even more strained once it defends Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in court. Read More

The Federal Aviation Administration wasted little time announcing that air traffic facilities will return to pre-furlough staff levels over the next 24 hours, returning to normal operations by Sunday evening. Read More

The after-effects of November’s referendums legalizing the private use of marijuana continue to generate legal questions in Colorado and Washington court houses. Read More

The High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) will question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when he's well enough to speak with authorities. Read More

Lead prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh trial, Scott Mendeloff, breaks down the legal issues surrounding bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with MSNBC’s Alex Witt. Read More

Secretary of State John Kerry met with China's top leaders and called for a peaceful solution to the North Korean nuclear standoff on Saturday during a joint press conference in Beijing. Read More

"All of us campaigned through the last election about preserving and strengthening social security and Medicare. It's frustrating to the base," said Democratic Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva Sunday. Read More

The end of the 2% payroll tax break, along with widespread damage from sequestration resulted in terrible March job numbers, said economist Jared Bernstein. Read More

The Washington Post reports that cancer clinics across the country are turning away medicare patients as a result of the across-the-board sequester cuts to the budget. The issue revolves around chemotherapy drugs that have to be administered by doctors. Read More

Through selling food, Mike D, one-third of the legendary hip-hop crew the Beastie Boys, decided to step up and help a neighborhood hit hard by Sandy. Read More

Arguments have come to a close in the Supreme Court cases against DOMA and Proposition 8, but opinions about it have not. Read More

To date, the wait for a veteran's disability claim to be resolved is two years. Read More