One Chicago teen lost her life just hours after her younger sister attended President Obama’s speech on gun violence. Read More

The Obama administration is downplaying its draft immigration proposal, saying it's only a plan B if lawmakers don't come up with their own sweeping bill. Read More

Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul are working together to bring a Schedule I illegal drug back into production in their state. Read More

Abortion opponents in Kansas are fighting to prevent the reopening of an abortion clinic left vacant after the 2009 murder of abortion specialist Dr. George Tiller. Read More

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren schools federal bank regulators for not putting Wall Street on trial. Their answers earned them an 'F.' Read More

Richard Wolffe wondered why words in Washington have to be so long and complicated, when shorter words would do. Also, Joy Reid discussed why Harry Reid didn't reform the filibuster when he had a chance. Read More

President Obama heads to his hometown of Chicago, where he gives remarks at 3:45 pm ET. The president plans to discuss gun violence in Chicago, following the slain teenager who was shot to death a week after performing at Obama's inauguration. Read More

Republicans in Wyoming voted to raise the tax on gasoline to help bring in money for the state. But, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell says "don't expect Washington Republicans" to rewrite their tax policy. Read More

While NRA leader Wayne LaPierre promised to fight the president's "agenda to destroy the Second Amendment," more than 5,000 supporters rallied in Connecticut for stricter gun laws, and New Jersey passed 20 bills that further restrict access to firearms and ammunition. Read More

Rosario Dawson spoke with Lawrence O'Donnell about her experience as a part of Voto Latino for the presidential election. And Krystal Ball and Ari Melber discussed the minimum wage. Read More

In an interview with the Associated Press, Speaker John Boehner revealed he has a new strategy in negotiating with the president. After his "rear end got burnt" after two failed rounds of budget talks, Boehner and the House will only look at bills after the White House and Senate pass it. Read More

A video produced by FreedomWorks, a Tea-Party-aligned advocacy group, included an oral sex scene between a fake Hillary Clinton and a fake panda, according to a report by Mother Jones. Read More

Lawmakers are trying to change New York's definition of sexual crimes. The bill's sponsor pointed out that people who are "forced to engage in a sexual act against their will, the word they use is 'rape.' " Read More

Thirty-seven senators are asking the president to sign an executive order that would ban LGBT discrimination in the workplace. Read More

Rep. Jim Langevin doesn’t seem to be bothered by gun-loving ‘70s rocker Ted Nugent’s bizarre diatribe against him following the State of the Union address. Read More

Wayne LaPierre's enemies list is a long one. In the latest Rewrite, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell goes through the organizations of all stripes who made the cut. Read More

The NRA released a new ad responding to Obama's gun control proposals in his State of the Union address. Attacking the president's daughters didn't work out so well for them before, so this spot uses policy-based arguments instead of targeted provocation. Read More

Less than two weeks after he announced he would not run for Massachusetts' open U.S. Senate seat, former Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass., has officially joined Fox News as a contributor. Read More

President Obama's State of the Union address ended in an emotional plea to Congress to reduce gun violence, telling lawmakers the families of Newtown, Hadiya Pendleton's parents, and other communities affected by gun violence all "deserve a vote" in Congress. Read More

O'Donnell called President Obama's message "extraordinary," but was hoping for a more public confrontation with House Speaker John Boehner. "I just wish he had turned to John Boeher and asked him, openly in front of the country, why wouldn't there be a vote?" Read More