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The former secretary of defense under President George W. Bush said that the controversy over administration talking points following the attack that left four Americans dead was eroding the trust of the public in Obama's presidency. Read More

On Sunday's Up with Steve Kornacki, the panel discussed the potential political, economic, and human consequences of the Bangladesh factory collapse. Read More

A trio of scandals seem to have had little effect on the public's feelings about President Barack Obama, who enjoys a 53% approval rating, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll. Read More

Despite decades of promises, military leaders have repeatedly leaned on a single cliché to explain why they've failed survivors of sexual assault. Read More

Is the proposed journalist shield law anything more than a political shield? Read More

One survivor of military sexual assault shares her story. Read More

Labor is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth while the tech industry is pointing to other studies that say the shortage is very real and is a threat to U.S. competitiveness. Read More

The Department of Defense and the U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Military Program have been teaming up since 2010 for the games. Service members from all branches of the military participate. Read More

Women leaders have put a spotlight on the epidemic of military sexual assault. "This is not a sideshow," said Obama in a meeting with his top military and national security team. "This goes to the heart and the core of who we are and how effective we're going to be." Read More

LOOK: The newest version of "Obama's Watergate" is Umbrella-gate. But he's not the only president to have gotten protection when the skies opened. Read More

Seriously cute: Barack Obama had a tough week, but he walked into a room of people happy to see him Friday morning when he visited children at Moravia Park Elementary School in Baltimore. Read More

Reps. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, had the two closest House races in the country in 2012, and they're top GOP targets looking ahead to 2014 once again. Read More

Louisiana has the highest gun-murder rate in the country. Yet state lawmakers have pushed an aggressive campaign to loosen the state’s already lax gun laws. A coalition of Republicans and white Democrats has banded together to fight gun control efforts of a small minority of mostly black legislators. Read More

The 2013 House farm bill would cut more than $20 billion from food stamps funding and cause up to two million people to lose eligibility. Read More

Some of the conservative groups complaining about intrusive questions from the IRS have close connections to Republican politics, suggesting the scrutiny, in some cases, may have been warranted. Read More

Republicans took to Twitter in advance of the House vote to appeal the Affordable Care Act Thursday, asking followers to slam #ObamacareInThreeWords. But the White House fought back with three words of its own. Read More

As Congressional hearings continue, lawmakers will question whether the idea to scrutinize conservative groups was born within the IRS –which the IG report says—or if goes higher in the Obama administration. Here’s a rundown of seven key people involved in the scandal. Read More

In a TV ad, Caren and Tom Teves, whose son Alex was killed in the Colorado movie theater shooting last summer, say Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake didn’t keep his promise to support tougher background checks. Read More

With their latest marching orders, House Republicans could make the 113th Congress even less productive than the 112th, quite an achievement. Read More

Steven Miller, who stepped down this week as acting commissioner of the IRS amid revelations that the agency targeted Tea Party groups for special scrutiny, apologized to Congress Friday, but said the effort wasn't deliberately partisan. Read More