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Published May 19th, 2013 - 6:22AM
Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so.
Published May 19th, 2013 - 6:07AM
A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news."
Published May 19th, 2013 - 6:07AM
The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck.
Published May 19th, 2013 - 5:27AM
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.
Published May 19th, 2013 - 4:02AM
President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 12:32PM
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 10:07AM
President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf - in the rain.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 8:07AM
Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 6:47AM
The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 6:07AM
There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 3:07AM
President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 12:52AM
Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 12:47AM
Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on a principle of taking "action for action" by deepening ties in response to democratic reforms.
Published May 18th, 2013 - 12:32AM
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.
Published May 17th, 2013 - 3:52PM
Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.


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