U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder himself is on the hot seat for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press.
Holder faces tough questions Wednesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
"Members of the committee will ask pointed questions about the Justice Department's decision to obtain two months' worth of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press," committee chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said. "Congress and the American people expect answers and...
A new Gallup Poll shows that Americans believe the government's handling of the attack in Benghazi last September 11 deserves further investigation, as do the revelations of the IRS singling out religious and conservative groups for scrutiny.
A report by the IRS's own watchdog shows senior IRS officials, including the acting commissioner, knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, making it clear that efforts went well beyond the branch initially blamed.
The Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups went beyond those with Tea Party or patriot in their names.
Three witnesses from the State Department told a House panel not enough was done to prevent the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Saeed Abedini, an American pastor imprisoned for his faith in Iran, has been released from solitary confinement and returned to the general population of Evin Prison.
On a cold December night in 1975, a 17-year-old girl sobbed on the bedroom floor of a neighbor’s house. Her own home had just burned to the ground, destroying everything she had. But that wasn’t the only weight she carried that night. She had just discovered that she was a few weeks pregnant with her first child. In the dark, alone and terrified, she decided to find a way to Kalamazoo, Mich., 40 miles away, to “take care of her situation.”
The House Republican leadership has scheduled a floor vote next week on a measure that would repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law that even the president now affectionately refers to as Obamacare.
A House investigation of last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is getting underway Wednesday.
President Obama's inability to work with Republicans in Congress continues to be an issue in his second term in office, bringing up questions of his leadership.
President Obama is embarking on a multi-city tour to assure Americans he's still focused on the economy, while trying to pass sweeping gun control and immigration legislation.
The Pentagon says soldiers can be prosecuted for sharing their faith.
A new poll by the National Right to Life Committee shows that more than half of all Americans, 55 percent, don't know that Planned Parenthood does abortions or that it's the biggest abortion provider in the country.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that 42 percent of Americans do not know that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as "Obamacare," is the law of the land.
Some U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency officials say they've been threatened by the Obama administration for being whistleblowers in the Benghazi investigation.
The murder trial for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell moved into closing arguments Monday, and both sides of the nation's abortion debate are weighing in on the trial.
President Obama became the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood in person on Friday. He spoke at the group's National Conference in Washington -- a fundraiser for the nation's number one abortion provider.
The defense rested in Dr. Kermit Gosnell's murder trial without calling a single witness, including Gosnell himself.


