By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Under fire for the Justice Department’s broad investigations of the news media, President Obama said Thursday he has called on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to review the probes and convene a meeting with media representatives. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain, who together run the Senate’s permanent investigative subcommittee, sent a letter to the IRS on Thursday calling for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the agency’s conservative-targeting scandal, to be suspended for dereliction of duty. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
House Speaker John A. Boehner on Thursday flatly ruled out chances of the House passing the Senate’s immigration bill, saying his chamber will debate its own bill instead. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By David Eldridge - The Washington Times
President Obama’s speech on resetting the war on terror ground to a halt halfway through when an anti-Gitmo heckler repeatedly interrupted. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
The Senate on Thursday finally confirmed President Obama’s first judicial nominee to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Commerce secretary-nominee Penny Pritzker told lawmakers Thursday that she regrets the losses suffered by customers of a failed bank she once led, but a lawyer for the depositors said the bank’s owners never fully reimbursed them or the government. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he won’t start to pick any big fights with Republicans because he’s afraid of upsetting the momentum to pass an immigration bill — and that includes delaying President Obama’s Labor Department nominee. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
President Obama on Thursday announced major changes to the nation’s counterterrorism policy, limiting drone strikes and renewing his effort to close down the Guantanamo Bay prison facility by returning detainees to their home countries in Afghanistan and Yemen. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo announced Thursday he will seek the 2014 Republican nomination for Colorado governor, a day after Gov. John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve to a notorious Death Row inmate. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The top investigator in the House feels a high-ranking IRS official waived her Fifth Amendment rights and should have to testify about the targeting of conservative groups at the powerful agency from 2010 to 2012. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Erik Schelzig - Associated Press
Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a licensed physician, was reprimanded and fined by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients before he was elected to Congress, according to documents released Thursday. Published May 23, 2013 Comments
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The woman at the center of the IRS scandal refused to testify to Congress on Wednesday, but House Republicans said Lois Lerner botched her attempt to invoke her right against self-incrimination and said they likely will force her to come back and explain why the agency targeted conservative political groups. Published May 22, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
Repeated sexual assaults in the military allow the culture to continue, a lawmaker said Thursday. Published May 23, 2013
By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times
The legal arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling that invalidated President Obama's controversial recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. Published May 23, 2013
By Bradley Klapper and Josef Federman - Associated Press
The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so far from U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry's 2-month-old effort to get Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Published May 23, 2013
By Kristen Wyatt - Associated Press
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. Published May 23, 2013
