U.S. Politics

Immigration Reform Passes the US Senate (Video)

The Senate on Thursday passed an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that would clear the way for mill...

Jun 27, 2013 08:07 PM EDT

Wendy Davis: Texas Abortion Bill Fails to Pass after Epic Filibuster by Democratic State Senator; Crowds Erupt (Video)

A bill that opponents said threatened to all but eliminate every abortion clinic in Texas failed to ...

Jun 26, 2013 01:10 PM EDT

Texas Abortion Law: After Restrictions Bill Approved in House, This Could Cause All Clinics in State to Shut Down (Video)

The Republican-dominated Texas Legislature moved closer on Monday to passing some of the toughest ab...

Jun 25, 2013 02:42 PM EDT

NSA Head: Program Helped To Thwart Terror Attacks; Journalist Glenn Greenwald Under Fire from Lawmaker

In his first congressional testimony since disclosure of the secretive programs, the director of the...

Jun 13, 2013 12:22 PM EDT

President Obama: 'NSA is Not Listening to Your Phone Calls' (Video)

President Obama defended the U.S. policy's long-standing Internet and phone monitoring programs as v...

Jun 07, 2013 02:44 PM EDT

Kirsten Gillibrand: New York Senator Pushes Legislation To Curb Sexual Assault Within the Military (Video)

The U.S. military brass came under tough criticism from senators who slammed them for their handling...

Jun 05, 2013 12:33 PM EDT

Michael Bloomberg: New York Mayor's Office, and D.C. Non Profit Group are Latest Targets for Letters Containing Ricin Mail (Video)

New York City Mayor Michael 's office in New York, and his nonprofit group in Washington D.C. were ...

May 30, 2013 05:30 PM EDT

IRS Official Lois Lerner Pleads Fifth Amendment, Insists She 'Did Nothing Wrong' in Agency's Targeting of Conservative Groups (Video)

IRS official Lois Lerner insisted at a hearing on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong, and inv...

May 22, 2013 12:10 PM EDT

White House Counsel Knew Weeks Prior About IRS Plan To Target Conservatives: Was U.S. President Kept in the Dark? (Video)

Two senior aides to President Barack Obama knew in late April about a watchdog report that the U.S. ...

May 20, 2013 05:44 PM EDT

IRS Probe: U.S. Treasury Department Knew of Inquiry in June 2012 (Video)

Senior members of the Obama Administration's Treasury Department were made aware that investigators ...

May 18, 2013 02:16 PM EDT

Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller Apologizes For Agency 'Targeting Conservatives;' Obama Seeks to Regroup after 3 Political Scandals Hit Administration (Video)

Steven Miller, the outgoing IRS Commissioner had apologized n Friday on behalf of the Internal Reven...

May 17, 2013 11:06 AM EDT

AP Allegations: U.S. Justice Department Defends Seizure of News Agency's Phone Records Subpoenas (Video)

The Justice Department on Tuesday defended its decision to subpoena phone records from Associated Pr...

May 15, 2013 01:29 PM EDT

89 Charged in Medicare Fraud: Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Arrests Involving Scams Worth $223 Million in False Billings

US. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the government said totaled $223 million in f...

May 14, 2013 07:35 PM EDT

Justice Department Opens Criminal Inquiry Into IRS Audits

Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he recused himself from a case involving a Departm...

May 14, 2013 03:09 PM EDT

Obama on Gitmo: 'It Needs to Be Closed;' President Vows to Renew Efforts to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay (Video)

President Obama, in a news press conference to the White House Press Corps, vowed to close Guantanam...

Apr 30, 2013 05:25 PM EDT

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