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Benghazi: Who knew what when?

Republican strategist Noelle Nikpour and former Congressman Martin Frost have a heated discussion about the Benghazi investigation in Saturday's "Strategy Talk." Read More

Balloons hang on a sign at the entrance to Sandy Hook School in Newtown, one day after a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. (File photo by Don Emmert/Getty Images)

Sandy Hook will build a new school

The town of Newtown, Conn., voted Friday to tear down the building where the December massacre occurred and build a new school on the same site. Read More

Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 10, 2013. Rescue workers in Bangladesh freed the woman buried for 16 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal. (AP Photo)

Watch: Survivor found in Bangladesh factory collapse

A woman was pulled from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory on Friday, more than two weeks after it collapsed. Read More

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Woman rescued from Bangladesh factory; death toll hits 1000

Rescuers pulled a woman on Friday from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory 17 days after it collapsed, astonishing workmen who had been searching for bodies of victims of a disaster that has killed more than 1,000 people. Read More

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Unlike the Irish, Latinos can’t assimilate, says Heritage immigration study co-author

Jason Richwine, co-author of a Heritage Foundation study which said citizenship for immigrants would cost the U.S. $6.3 trillion, has said that Hispanic immigrants with low-IQ’s will have generations of family members with low-IQ’s as well. Read More

Sen. Ted Cruz questions Chuck Hagel, a former two-term senator and President Obama's choice to be defense secretary, during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on  Jan. 31, 2013. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Republican vs. Republican battle lines drawn on immigration reform

Whether a comprehensive immigration reform bill will reach President Obama’s desk this year boils down to one fundamental thing–whether enough Republicans will support it or not. Read More

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25, 2013. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Benghazi: Boehner calls on Obama to release docs

“Somebody clearly decided they didn't like the references to Islamic terrorism, and made changes in this document," Speaker John Boehner charged Thursday. "The American people deserve the truth. And they will get the truth." Read More

Andrea Mitchell interviews Secretary of State John Kerry in Doha, Qatar. March 5, 2013. (Photo: Catherine Chomiak/NBC News)

Watch: John Kerry joins Andrea Mitchell in first State Dept Google Hangout

Tune in Friday at 1:30 pm ET as Andrea Mitchell moderates the first "Hangout at State" between Secretary of State John Kerry and Americans nationwide. Read More

An woman takes the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the at district office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on January 28, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Some 38,000 immigrants became U.S. citizens at the Newark office alone in 2012.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Heritage immigration report co-author argued Hispanics are ‘low-IQ’ immigrants

In a 2009 dissertation, Jason Richwine argued that immigrants have lower IQs than "that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations." Read More

1st Congressional District Democratic candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch gives her concession speech at the Charleston Renaissance Hotel after losing to Republican Mark Sanford Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Charleston S.C.  At right is her husband Claus Busch. Sanford and Colbert Busch were running in a special election for the state's vacant 1st District congressional seat. (Photo by Mic Smith/AP Photo)

Watch: Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s concession speech

Elizabeth Colbert Busch thanked her supporters Tuesday night after losing the House race for South Carolina's 1st District to Mark Sanford. Read More

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gives his victory speech after wining back his old congressional seat in the state's 1st District on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. (Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/AP Photo)

Watch: Mark Sanford’s acceptance speech

Mark Sanford delivers his acceptance speech to supporters Tuesday night after beating out his challenger for a South Carolina House seat. Read More

This is a Sept. 16, 2010 Mississippi Department of Corrections provided photograph of death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning, taken at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Miss., who is scheduled to die by lethal injection, Tuesday, May 7. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections)

Defense: Hair sample in question in death row inmate’s pending execution

Attorneys for a death row inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1992 are hoping that a hair sample holds the key to exonerating their client. Read More

A "Welcome Home Gina " sign hangs on a fence outside the home of Gina DeJesus  Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Cleveland.  DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade ago, were found in a home just south of downtown Cleveland and likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Gina DeJesus’ cousin says she’s ready to return to her normal life

On Monday night, Gina DeJesus was finally found after having been kidnapped nine years ago, and her oldest cousin through her mom’s side, Robert Osorio, says it was a joyous reunion for the Puerto Rican family residing in Cleveland. Read More

Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez is famous worldwide, but there are many other journalists within Cuba making a difference, writes Queens College professor Sujatha Fernandes.

Cuban journalists exposing injustice merit more attention

Cuban journalists, dissident and within the country alike, may be the key to social and structural change in Cuba. Hence, they deserve more attention, writes "MHP" guest Sujatha Fernandes. Read More

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on January 27, 2012, in Washington, DC. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the formation of the residential mortgage backed securities group that will investigate fraud in residential mortgage backed securities.   (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

New York plans to sue Bank of America, Wells Fargo over mortgage practices

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday said he plans to sue Bank of America Corp and Wells Fargo & Co. for violating the National Mortgage Settlement brokered last year between the country's biggest banks and 49 state attorneys general. Read More

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Immigration reform sets up for new battle

As a Senate committee prepares to begin voting this week on far-reaching immigration legislation, advocates are watching warily to see whether relatively tame opposition balloons into the kind of fierce resistance that killed Congress' last attempt to overhaul the system. Read More

President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address during a ceremony at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by: Mandel/AFP Photo/Getty Images)

Obama delivers commencement speech at The Ohio State University

Read the full address here: "Look at all America has accomplished. Look at how big we've been. I dare you to do better. I dare you to be better." Read More

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Steve Case: Tech world needs comprehensive immigration reform

"There is an opportunity here," AOL co-founder Steve Case told Andrea Mitchell Friday. "People recognize that the demographics are shifting and we just need to deal with this if we're going to remain the most entrepreneurial nation." Read More

The internment center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images, File)

Guantanamo ‘under lockdown’ ‘like we haven’t seen since the Bush years’

With 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo Bay on a hunger strike and the military force-feeding 23 of them with feeding tubes, the situation at the detention facility has captured international attention. Read More

A woman holds a photo of her missing sister after a garment factory building collapsed last week in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Spotlight on retail after 500 perish in Bangladesh factory

Home to five factories that supplied clothing to retailers in Europe and the United States, the shoddily constructed building's collapse has put a focus on the high human price paid when Bangladeshi government ineptitude, Western consumer apathy and global retailing's drive for the lowest cost of production intersect. Read More