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File Photo: David Barrows and fellow members of the organization Witness Against Torture wear orange prison jump suits with handcuffs and a hood over their heads during a demonstration urging the government to close down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bayon Jan. 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images, File)

Over a thousand activists sign full-page ad to close Guantanamo

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

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Questions about advancing in your field of work? Ask Kmele Foster

Businessman Kmele Foster will sit down in the greenroom on Friday with MSNBC's Louis Burgdorf to discuss an organization that aims to enhance future leaders' impact on a global society. Read More

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Questions about advancing in your field of work? Ask Kmele Foster

Businessman Kmele Foster will sit down in the greenroom on Friday with MSNBC's Louis Burgdorf to discuss an organization that aims to enhance future leaders' impact on a global society. Read More

A man looks at a boulder that hit a car after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene Blevins

How to help: Oklahoma tornado victims

Contributions will assist with buying supplies, materials, diesel for emergency vehicles, and food for responders helping victims of the tornado that razed Moore, Okla., Monday. Read More

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie looks on while giving his State of the State address in the assembly chamber in Trenton, N.J., in this Jan. 8, 2013 file photo. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

Gov. Christie criticized for ad that promotes tourism in N.J.

The Republican governor and his family say New Jersey is "stronger than the storm," but critics have accused him of using federal taxpayer dollars to boost his political image. Read More

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AP chief: Sources reluctant to talk in fear of being monitored

The Department of Justice's secret subpoena of journalists' phone records is "unconstitutional," the president of The Associated Press said on Sunday. Read More

This digital composite shows: (L-R) The crowd watches a game at Harvard Stadium May 4, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.(Photo by Gail Oskin/Getty Images) US President Barack Obama delivers his annual State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress and the Supreme Court on January 25, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.   (Photo by Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images, File)

Video: Sen. Snowe from outside the Capitol looking in

The long-time senator from Maine engaged in Congress' fight outside the institution because she didn't think there was a way to alter the political equation from the inside, she said during an Afternoon Mo Joe web-exclusive interview. Read More

Donny Deutsch attends the Masquerade Ball Benefiting Ronald McDonald House at Apella on October 25, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images)

Donny Deutsch: I ‘would love’ to run for mayor of New York

Exceptional candidates for political office won't run for election because the media exploit their lives before their names are even on a ballot, said the chairman of Deutsch, Inc. on Thursday during an Afternoon Mo Joe roundtable discussion. Read More

This digital composite shows (L-R): Family members of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on May 8, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Outgoing acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Steve Miller arrives to testify before a full House Ways and Means committee on May 17, 2013. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

Poll: Americans lack attention to IRS, Benghazi hearings

A new poll shows the majority of Americans' focus is below average on the IRS scandal and Benghazi congressional hearings. Read More

Donny Deutsch attends the Masquerade Ball Benefiting Ronald McDonald House at Apella on October 25, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images)

Donny Deutsch: I ‘would love’ to run for mayor

Exceptional candidates for political office won't run for election because the media exploit their lives, said the chairman of Deutsch, Inc. during an Afternoon Mo Joe roundtable discussion. Read More

Aerial view of the boat where one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was found in Watertown, Mass. (Photo by David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Boston bombing suspect left note in the boat

The surviving Boston bombing suspect wrote a note inside the hull of the boat in which he hid, describing the bombings as retaliation for the actions of the United States against Muslims. Read More

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Media letter to DOJ: Stronger laws needed to protect reporters

More than 50 media companies signed a letter of protest to the attorney general a day after learning about the Justice Department's subpoena of Associated Press phone records. Read More

Sen. Olympia Snowe

Watch: Sen. Snowe from outside the Capitol looking in

The long-time senator from Maine engaged in Congress' fight outside the institution because she didn't think there was a way to alter the political equation from the inside, she said on Tuesday during a web-exclusive greenroom interview. Read More

President Obama and the rest of Washington must let go of the politics of poverty to make a real impact, argues the Manhattan Institute's Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

Fmr. Sen. Olympia Snowe: President is the ‘engine’

It is the president’s job to repair the trust between the people and Washington, where there has always been a disconnect to the average citizen’s life, the three-term Republican senator said. Read More

File photo: Actress Angelina Jolie reveals in a New York Times op-ed piece published on May 14, 2013 that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery that was completed on April 27, 2013. (Photo by:  Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Angelina Jolie discloses her double mastectomy procedure

The 37-year-old actress revealed on Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed that she went through a double mastectomy to lower her chances of breast and ovarian cancer. Read More

Alec McGlory

Too Young to Die: Alec McGlory

Alec, 17, was an honor roll student and member of the National Honor Society who planned to attend Southwestern State Oklahoma University in the fall. Read More

A destroyed car sits outside the Syrian Interior Ministry following a bomb 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)

British PM: We have not made decision to arm Syrian opposition

British Prime Minister David Cameron also said at a news conference on Monday morning that he saw an "urgent window of opportunity'' before the "worst fears'' in Syria would be realized. Read More

Destiny McCord

Too Young to Die: Destiny McCord

As a 10-year-old child at the time of her father's death in 2010, Destiny McCord comforted her family more than she wept in her own sorrow. Read More

Video captures the World Trade Center on the morning its final spire will placed atop it, Friday, May 10, 2013. Courtesy Morning Joe

Watch: Spire installed atop One World Trade Center

The silver spire installed Friday morning atop the One World Trade Center building raises the structure to 1,776 feet. Read More

President Barack Obama at Manor New Technology High School, Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Manor, Texas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A year after Obama’s gay marriage ‘evolution’

In the year since President Obama publicly endorsed gay marriage on May 9, 2012, the movement in favor of marriage equality and LGBT rights has had a few more firsts. Read More