The White House is trying to distance itself from the IRS scandal and the Department of Justice's seizure of journalists' phone records. Read More

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney will join the NOW panel Wednesday to discuss his latest film, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks." Read More

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

Marriage equality will officially arrive in Minnesota on August 1. Democratic Governor Mark Dayton described his thinking to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell in an exclusive interview Tuesday after signing the legislation. Read More

When a small crew of Watertown police officers responded to a local carjacking, they had no idea it would turn into the biggest firefight in their precinct's history. Their first-hand accounts. Read More

On the same day of the SEC roundtable on credit-rating conflicts, the internet reacted to Minnesota Senator Al Franken's legislative proposal. Read More

The 71-year-old senator is investing in a bold social strategy in hopes he can Tweet, Tumblr, and Harlem Shake his way to reelection. Read More

An anonymous charge has put the Obama administration on the defensive—the last place it needs to be six months before the new health law takes effect. 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

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

Holder indicated that he ended his involvement in the investigation in order "to avoid the appearance of a potential conflict of interest," citing his June 2012 interview with the FBI in connection to the leaks. Read More

Are we gonna spend the next few months beating-up-on the IRS and the Bush-appointed former head of the IRS who was in charge when all of this happened? Or are we also gonna take the opportunity to try to figure out what exactly we should be doing to sort out this completely intractable mess in tax law created by Citizens United? Read More

The Obama administration is on defense dealing with the fallout from three separate controversies: the IRS targeting of conservative groups, fallout from the September attack in Benghazi, and the Justice Department seizing Associated Press phone records. Read More

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 on Tuesday. Read More

The journalist whose reporting uncovered the Watergate scandal said the president's administration is trying to intimidate officials from talking to the press. Read More

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

Cartoons have a special mystery about them that can create outrage or joy depending on how you interpret them. Read More

The Obama administration is on defense, battling negative headlines on three fronts: The IRS targeting Tea Party groups, controversy over edits made to talking points in the wake of the Benghazi attack, and now the DOJ's seizure of phone records from AP reporters and editors. Read More

The Associated Press is slamming the Department of Justice after the agency revealed it secretly obtained the phone records of journalists at the wire service’s news-gathering operations. “None of us have ever seen anything like this,” said AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll Read More