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In his first primetime cable interview, Sen. Al Franken discussed his efforts to eliminate credit rating conflicts that emerged during the 2008 financial crisis, when rating agencies gave their highest marks to mortgage securities. Read More

Anti-choice activists claim that when women have reproductive rights, they are easily exploited by medical charlatans. History shows that the opposite is true. Read More

The police chief and mayor asked the community to step up. "Somebody knows something," said the mayor. Hours later, the cops had identified a suspect. Read More

Jason Richwine stepped down from the Heritage Foundation. He told the Washington Examiner, “The accusation of racism is one of the worst things that anyone can call you in public life,” he said. “Once that word is out there, it’s very difficult to recover from it, even when it is completely untrue.” Read More

Republicans are using the Benghazi attack to undermine Hillary Clinton politically--but a new poll shows that so far, the public isn't buying it. Read More

Handguns are used in nearly three out of four gun-related homicides in the United States, according to FBI records. Every day in America, about 17 individuals are murdered with a handgun. The New Orleans shooting on Mother's Day illustrates the problem. Read More

Minnesota voted to join eleven states and the District of Columbia on Monday in allowing gay couples to marry, making it the first state in the Midwest to pass legislation legalizing marriage equality. Read More

Never has a musician been able to sing the lyrics of David Bowie's iconic song, "Space Oddity," and mean them quite so literally than this. Read More

Benghazi and the IRS stories may be the latest, but they're far from the first scandals that the right-wing has touted as a Watergate-style scandal. A lesson in wishful thinking? 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

The president is under fire on two major issues this week: an IRS scandal and months-old Benghazi talking points. The political assault on Obama is leaving some to wonder if he is facing the familiar “second-term curse,” or is simply stuck in temporary partisan cross hairs. Read More

The possible 2016 presidential candidate's political action committee, Reclaim America PAC, is going up in New Hampshire with a television ad backing Ayotte on her votes against gun control. Read More

The school district of Pontiac, Mich. barely avoided failing to make payroll this week. Meanwhile, Buena Vista public schools remain closed, despite calls for the governor to provide emergency financial assistance. Read More

With the Democrats’ likely best bet out, South Dakota is now inches the way of West Virginia for seats they must defend. Without a strong recruit in both of their most difficult states, these both may be increasingly lost causes for Democrats. 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 president called out Republican leadership as insistent on re-litigating the eight month old controversy based on purely political motivation, and intent on challenging the credibility of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others, including himself. Read More

Under intense pressure to respond to the tragedy, Bangladesh's government agreed Monday to allow garment workers to unionize without permission from factory owners. Read More

President Obama called the revelations about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups "outrageous" Monday morning. Republicans are planning a Congressional investigation. Here's what we know about the scandal. Read More

Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar contraptions atop the Eiffel Tower and elsewhere around Paris keep a pulse on emissions from smokestacks and automobile tailpipes Read More

The GOP has no shortage of issues to address as it works to rebuild the party brand. But does Republican policy on the economy and the environment appeal to the average American? Read More