Tea Party groups hope the scandal at the IRS fires up their base the same way as heath care reform did in 2010, plus other political stories that are driving our day. Read More

The enormous twister at least a mile wide with winds as strong as 200 mph ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, crushing a school, and killing at least 24 people. Read More

The city of Moore, Oklahoma, has resumed the search for survivors this morning after Monday's massive tornado. Read More

An enormous tornado at least a mile wide with winds as strong as 200 mph ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and killing at lleast 51 people. Read More

The report comes as the DOJ is under fire for issuing a subpoena for Associated Press journalists’ phone records. Read More

Sen. Rand Paul insists there's a revealing memo on the IRS scandal (although he hasn't seen it); Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says it shows a "culture of intimidation" within the Obama administration; and more GOPers are trying to tie the president to the IRS scandal without any evidence. Read More

The chief White House lawyer learned last month that the Inspector General at the Treasury Department had finished his audit of the IRS, and its heightened… 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

If you feel like you lost track of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann since her failed 2012 presidential bid, this has been the week to remedy that. With 17 months until the 2014 midterm election, Bachmann is out with her first campaign ad. The subject? Obamacare! Read More

Chris Matthews on Obama's tumultuous week: 'He shouldn't have to read in the paper that some agency is screwing up... shouldn't have to learn second-hand about what his Justice Department is up to.' 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

When it comes to investigations, what should the president know and when should the president know it? Jay Carney and Michael Steele--not surprisingly--have opposing views. Read More

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld weigh in on the Obama administration's response to Benghazi. Should they really be the ones giving national security advice? Read More

Republians don't "so much want the White House - try to think of someone they honestly want to see there - as it wants to imagine that Barack Obama isn't really President after all," says Chris Matthews. Read More

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

Obama has tried to wrest control of issues that have battered his administration: Benghazi, the AP phone probe, and the IRS scandal. But Republicans don’t seem to be loosening their grip on the commander-in-chief at all. Read More

The trifecta of controversy that has plagued his administration over the past week is still swirling, but with the resignation yesterday of the acting IRS commissioner, the president may be starting to take back control. 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

And now? "What he needs to do is accept his duty to do it, and show it, across the board," says Hardball host Chris Matthews. Read More

Michele Bachmann takes on cutting edge techonology, but not without a shout-out to her favorite news source. Read More