The week in 2016 chatter was dominated by a proxy fight over Benghazi, as Republicans tried to use new revelations from Wednesday's White House document dump to put chinks in Hillary Clinton's 2016 armor. Read More

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

House Republicans are holding the first of several hearings on the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service. GOP Rep. Charles Boustany, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, says “I just refuse to believe that lower-level I.R.S. personnel were making these kinds of decisions.” Read More

Emails released by the White House this week make clear that Susan Rice was not the main player in a Benghazi cover-up that Republicans claimed. So where's the apology? Read More

Action man! It was Obama’s third press conference this week as he works to convey competence and transparency. Read More

The almost 100 pages of White House Benghazi emails have shown Republicans once again to have overplayed their hand. Read More

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

After a terrible week, the White House moved to take control of three issues that have plagued the administration: Benghazi, the IRS scandal and the Justice Department’s decision to seize phone records of AP journalists. Can the president regain his footing? Read More

"Anybody who has broken the law will be held accountable," said Holder. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called on the attorney general to resign. Read More

It's been open more than a decade now, but there is still much Americans don't know about the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. One person who is more familiar with Gitmo than most is the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, Read More

Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma is the latest to back off GOP impeachment talk Read More

"The president's problems - the Benghazi "talking points," the IRS digging into the Tea Party, the FBI digging for reporters' phone records - are containable if the President takes two clear steps," says Chris Matthews. Read More

The Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records fits into a longstanding pattern of executive branch secrecy. And the administration that promised to be "most transparent" ever, led by a president who said he rejected the false choice between security and liberty, is hardly recognizable to a huge swath of his base. Read More

Russian officials claimed they had captured an American diplomat who was trying to recruit CIA operatives in Moscow. Read More

"Ugh." That was the reported response of one progressive activist when he heard the news that the Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from the Associated Press. The latest "scandal" comes after last week's revelations that the IRS targeted conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status. Read More

"I think she can deal with Benghazi because at its bottom line, she didn't do a thing wrong," says Chris Matthews of the former secretary of state. Read More

The Minnesota congresswoman – who has kept a relatively low profile after barely winning re-election – made the eyebrow-raising remarks at a prayer event arranged by conservatives at the U.S. Capitol. Read More

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

“The purpose of the Accountability Review Board is to go below those who take responsibility...to where decisions were made," the ambassador who headed up the State Department's internal review board said. Read More