Updated: Fri, May 24, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers broke into full view, with Sen. John McCain accusing younger colleagues of overplaying their hands and tempting Democrats to change Senate rules that protect the minority party. Tactics for dealing with...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: 7 hr ago

“We have a message for Attorney General Holder over at http://huffingtonpost.com,” read a message from the Huffington Post political Twitter account earlier this evening. The home page is one big splash calling for Holder’s exit from the Obama administration suggesting that the news...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: 8 hr ago

Five years later and George W. Bush's White House still sticks together. "We're like family," Tony Fratto, Bush 43's deputy press secretary, gushes between greeting guests Wednesday night at a Washington book party for White House photographer Eric Draper. When Bush was in the White House, it...

Brian Hughes

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

President Obama on Thursday said he will impose stricter limitations on the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists and renewed his pledge to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, declaring America is at a "crossroads" in its fight against terrorism. In the most expansive...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Top IRS officials, whose agency was under investigation for targeting conservative groups, visited the Obama White House more than 100 times over two years while the probe was going on, far more often than in previous administrations and frequently enough that Republicans suspect White House...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: 8 hr ago

Sure, sure, the Internet was making a big deal Thursday about the fact that President Obama got lei-ed at his 1979 high school prom in Hawaii. (Time Magazine released three pictures of POTUS before prom, courtesy of an Obama classmate). But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released a vintage picture on...

Byron York

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

If there were an organized opposition to comprehensive immigration reform -- and there really isn't, compared to the political/business/activist/lobbying complex in favor of it -- the opposition would pound daily on the key weakness at the heart of the Senate Gang of Eight bill. That weakness is...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

IRS employees working under Lois Lerner allegedly asked a pro-life group about the “content of the members of your organization’s prayers” while considering their application for tax-exempt status — a charge that is less surprising in light of Lerner’s work as the chief enforcement...

Joel Gehrke

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled two bills designed to limit government surveillance of Americans, including one that would effectively ban the use of drone technology in the United States. “The use of drone surveillance may work on the battlefields overseas, but it isn’t well-suited for...

Updated: 10 hr ago

Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the...