Facing political difficulty to sweeping gun regulations, President Barack Obama is weighing 19 areas that could be taken through executive action, House Democrats say. The president is expected to announce his proposals as early as Wednesday, a little over a month since the Newtown shootings. Read More

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell weighed the political future of “loser Scott Brown,” the now former senator from Massachusetts, in his Rewrite segment. Read More

Obama backs away from invoking the 14th Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, but would it even worked if he tried to do it? Read More

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke threw cold water on GOP talking points, saying raising the debt ceiling “doesn't create new deficits, it doesn't create new spending." Read More

Relatives of gun violence victims ask lawmakers for tighter gun control measures in a new tv spot released Monday by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the gun control advocacy group led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Read More

The National Rifle Association has released a new iPhone game for users ages 4 and up to test "true-to-life firearms." The release of this new shooting game follows the NRA blaming Hollywood and the media for the increase of gun violence in America and recent mass murders. Read More

With Vice President Biden's set of recommendations to reduce gun violence landing on President Obama's desk Tuesday, another political battle in Congress will ensue. In a month since the shooting in Newtown, Conn., the nation still awaits to see how gun violence can be curbed. Read More

In 1993, researchers published a pair of studies that challenged the most basic assumptions of many gun owners: that owning a gun makes you safer. Since then, the NRA has worked to stymie research into gun violence--leaving today's policymakers flying blind. Read More

MSNBC's Ari Melber and Krystal Ball debate the relative merits of Rep. Barney Frank vs. host of The Last Word Lawrence O'Donnell, and try to determine who would best fill Sen. John Kerry's senate seat in Massachusetts. And Lawrence O'Donnell announced a late Christmas for The Last Word staff. Read More

A pastor was forced to withdraw from participating in President Obama's inauguration ceremony after his past anti-gay rhetoric was revealed. But the president will be sworn in on a Bible that includes anti-gay language and doesn't prohibit slavery, Lawrence O'Donnell argued. Read More

WATCH VIDEO: Purchasing a gun in America is pretty easy: here are seven things that the federal government makes more difficult than buying a firearm. (Yes, getting scuba certification is one of them.) Read More

Republican Arkansas Congressman Tom Cotton, a former Army infantry officer in both Iraq and Afghanistan, said that military women should not serve in front-line combat roles because their "nature" makes them unfit for the task. Read More

Get a preview of Thursday's rundown. Vice President Biden met with the NRA in Washington on Thursday. Plus, don't dismiss the veep as a presidential candidate for 2016. Read More

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he plans to deliver recommendations for reducing gun violence to President Obama in just five days—and he added a bit more detail to what those measures might include. Read More

With the help of his audience, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell will announce his pick, Barney Frank, as the next appointed Senator of Massachusetts. O'Donnell makes his case for the retired Massachusetts Congressman who served 32 years as "an effective and accomplished member of the House." Read More

President Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, may be asked to re-do his signature, as Timothy Geithner was asked to do so that legible signatures were fit to print on all Federal Reserve notes and dollar bills. Read More

Because gun advocates fear a dystopian future, they won't fix our actual dystopian present, said Stewart. Read More

Ari Melber discusses the possibility of Lawrence O'Donnell filling Sen. John Kerry's Senate seat for the interim term until a replacement can be found. And Steve Kornacki apologizes for pronouncing Rep. Louie Gohmert's last name with a soft, French 'T'. Read More

Vice President Biden kicked off a series of meetings on Wednesday aimed at finding legislative solutions to curb gun violence. Find out about that, and other headlines shaping tonight's rundown. Read More

The lead organizer of Gun Appreciation Day helps run a group that warns of "armed government oppression” and a “world government.” Another group involved in the event fears Obama will impose “martial law.” Read More