Who took a political stand against the law back in 1996? In the Rewrite, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell called attention to the lawmakers who were “right when America needed them to be right.” Read More

The Pima County Sheriff's Department released close to 3,000 pages of documents Wednesday about the January 2011 attack that killed six people and wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others. Read More

President Obama held an event at the White House, urging Congress to take immediate action on reducing gun violence. Here's a look at stories shaping tonight's rundown. Read More

As the Supreme Court considers the fate of DOMA and Prop 8, the nephew of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk said marriage equality is not just a form of tolerance, but a reason for celebration. Read More

Is Ted Cruz the 21st century’s Joe McCarthy? MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said, “We have never seen anything quite so perfectly and childishly McCarthy-esque as Ted Cruz.” Read More

Marriage equality took center stage at the Supreme Court as the court heard a oral arguments on whether to uphold California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage. Check out the headlines shaping tonight's rundown. Read More

Tina Fey got mavericky once again, reviving her indelible (and possibly even game-changing) Sarah Palin impression. Read More

In a poignant letter, a 12-year-old boy made a personal appeal to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court about family and marriage. Read More

The controversial assault weapons ban will no longer be included in a major Democratic legislation. Read More

Tea Party-backed Sen. Rand Paul endorsed a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, the latest conservative leader to speak out on immigration reform. Get a look at the headlines. Read More

Gun violence turned Democratic Rep. Carolyn McCarthy into a widow after her husband was killed during a 1993 shooting rampage. But according to the NRA, she has “no idea what [she's] talking about” when it comes to gun violence. Read More

A long-time supporter of civil unions between same-sex couples, Hillary Clinton came out in full public support of marriage equality. In a video, she argued LGBT Americans “deserve the rights of citizenship." Read More

The results are now in from the Republicans' so-called "autopsy" report, going deep what went wrong in the 2012 presidential campaign. Among its findings, voters view the GOP as a "scary" party filled with "stuffy old men." Read More

Republicans reacted cautiously to Senator Portman's change of heart on gay marriage. Many said his views should be respected as personal; a few denounced him for "selfish" ideological inconsistency. Read More

While Honey Boo Boo and the Housewives still reign as the queens of the small screen, the vice president will now offer a glimpse into his own world in Washington. Read More

As the Republican Party at large continues to slog through its identity crisis, the Conservative Political Action Conference reconvened Thursday for its annual meeting in Washington. Read More

He was once the most famous African-American in the world. Now President Obama has an opportunity to pardon him for a racially-motivated prosecution. Read More

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy wants NASCAR to give gun lobbyists the red light, asking the car racing association to reconsider allowing the NRA to sponsor one of its races. Read More

At the annual Gridiron Dinner, President Obama dished out some one-liners on the sequester and took a Marco Rubio-style water break. Read More

President Obama plans to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to keep negotiations alive. Meanwhile, Paul Ryan is still talking about repealing Obamacare. Read More