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By CONNIE CASS, Associated Press | May 18 at 12:48 p.m. 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.
By KEN THOMAS and STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press | May 18 at 10:48 a.m. There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press | May 19 at 3:43 a.m. 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.
By BILL BARROW and THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press | May 18 at 2:53 p.m. Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press | May 18 at 11:03 a.m. 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.
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent | May 18 at 2:53 p.m. 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.
By IVAN MORENO, Associated Press | May 17 at 5:53 p.m. 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.
By Lindsay Wise, McClatchy Washington Bureau | May 17 at 5:58 p.m. An elite group of federal employees is set to receive cash bonuses despite this years automatic budget cuts, according to a report that a Senate subcommittee issued Friday.
The Associated Press | May 17 at 5:28 p.m. The White House says President Barack Obama has met with Daniel Werfel, the new acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press | May 17 at 4:48 p.m. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control.
The Associated Press | May 17 at 4:33 p.m. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. wants to see Bangladesh move forward on improving labor standards after a building collapse that killed hundreds of garment workers.
By JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press | May 18 at 9:43 a.m. Seeking maximum political gain from the string of controversies swirling around the White House, Republicans are on the attack against Democratic lawmakers who accepted donations from the union that represents Internal Revenue Service employees.
By Curtis Tate, McClatchy Washington Bureau | May 17 at 6:43 p.m. Anthony Foxx appears to have a clear path to confirmation as U.S. transportation secretary next week, as virtually all of his 16 predecessors have.
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press | May 18 at 11:43 a.m. Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target: President Barack Obama's health care law.
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press | May 17 at 4:44 p.m. President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday.
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press | May 17 at 5:04 p.m. The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has subpoenaed the co-chairman of the independent review board that investigated last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, to answer questions about the panel's findings behind closed doors.
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer | May 17 at 1:47 p.m. An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea.
By REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press | May 17 at 6:43 p.m. Illinois lawmakers agreed to legalize the use of medical marijuana on Friday under a plan that's being billed as the strictest in the nation among states that have authorized the drug's medicinal use, though it was unclear whether the Democratic governor plans to sign it.
By HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press | May 17 at 1:57 p.m. The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it.
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers | May 17 at 12:42 p.m. One of the two inmates accused of killing an Atwater, Calif., prison guard was so drunk on a potent brew dubbed “White Lightning” that he couldn’t understand an FBI agent’s Miranda warnings afterward, defense attorneys claim in revealing new documents filed in federal court.