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Bret Baier: Justice Department targeted James Rosen’s parents as well

On Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, host Bret Baier revealed that the intrusions into James Rosen’s privacy went beyond Rosen himself and also involved his parents.

‘Yes we can’ chant breaks out as Senate panel passes immigration bill

9:11 PM 05/21/2013

The Senate Judiciary Committee's passage of a sweeping immigration bill was expected. But the explosion of chants of “Yes we can! Yes we can!” and “Leahy! Leahy!” came as a surprise.

Fox News tops The Weather Channel on Okla. tornado coverage

8:37 PM 05/21/2013

Fox News Channel blew away the competition during breaking news coverage of Monday’s tragic tornado outbreak that devastated the city of Moore, Okla.

Cruz blasts Senate for holding immigration reform ‘hostage’ to citizenship path

8:31 PM 05/21/2013

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz failed to knock out problematic provisions in the Senate's "Gang of Eight" immigration bill Tuesday, but not before warning that the bill could make immigration worse.

BuzzFeed’s Anburajan: Ted Cruz a ‘LINO’ — ‘Latino in Name Only’

4:51 PM 05/21/2013

In a post on her Twitter account, Buzzfeed Director of Partnership Development Aswini Anburajan took a swipe at Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's ethnicity, calling him a “LINO,” or a “latino in name only.”

Bill Kristol to Marco Rubio: ‘Walk away’ on immigration; ‘Jeff Sessions is winning the debate’ [AUDIO]

4:21 PM 05/21/2013

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, a self-admitted liberal on immigration, advised Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday to walk away from the Senate immigration bill and revisit it in a few years.

Carney: Questions about HHS Enroll Now scandal like birtherism

3:23 PM 05/21/2013

During his Tuesday press briefing, White House press secretary Jay Carney ridiculed a question from CBS correspondent Major Garrett about allegations involving improprieties by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius by comparing it to the hubbub over President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

CBS’s Attkisson reports ‘some compromising of my computer systems’

1:20 PM 05/21/2013

In an appearance on 1210 AM WPHT in Philadelphia on Tuesday, CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, whose investigative work on the Obama White House has frequently provoked hot reactions, revealed the she had discovered evidence that her computer system may have been tampered with.

Newsweek in 1975: Tornado outbreak blamed on global cooling

10:42 AM 05/21/2013

Over the past several years, one of the knee-jerk reactions from political and media personalities following natural disasters has been to blame man-made global warming.

Brit Hume: Obama, Holder contradict themselves on press freedom with Rosen investigation

9:47 AM 05/21/2013

On Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Monday, network senior political analyst Brit Hume challenged the White House’s claim that it’s a supporter of freedom of the press.

Hot mic catches Chuck Schumer protecting ‘Gang of 8′ Republicans?

2:32 AM 05/21/2013

During a vote on an amendment to that would limit the eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit during a Judicial Committee hearing on Monday, New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer was caught on microphone asking someone who appeared to be a staffer, “Do our Republicans have a pass on this one if they want?”

Democratic senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming

7:40 PM 05/20/2013

While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Bill O’Reilly chalks Obama media scandals up to daddy issues

4:33 PM 05/20/2013

On Monday, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said that recent revelations that the Obama administration used its investigatory powers to look into the members of the media may be due to President Barack Obama's lack of a strong father figure when growing up.

AP president rips ‘unconstitutional’ Obama administration investigation

3:36 PM 05/19/2013

On this weekend’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt ripped the Obama’s administration’s Justice Department for the tactics it used in its investigation into leaks about a foiled terror plot in Yemen and the use of the Stuxnet virus against Iran's nuclear program.

SNL cold open spoofs MSNBC’s ‘Politics Nation’ host Al Sharpton

2:36 PM 05/19/2013

On the cold open of Saturday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” Kenan Thompson impersonated of MSNBC “Politics Nation” host Al Sharpton, in a clip that also parodied Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.

Rand Paul likens Benghazi to ‘tragic errors’ that led to ‘Black Hawk Down’ [VIDEO]

2:09 PM 05/19/2013

On Sunday's "State of the Union" on CNN, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took aim at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the State Department's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

White House aide: Obama’s whereabouts night of Benghazi attack ‘a largely irrelevant fact’ [VIDEO]

1:25 PM 05/19/2013

On Sunday, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer made the talk show rounds in the wake of three scandals involving the Obama administration, but seemed to have the same message: that the details were "irrelevant" and Obama wants to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Bill Maher: GOP guilty of ‘treason’; Michael Moore: ‘They hate America’

1:25 PM 05/18/2013

On Friday’s “Real Time” on HBO, two of the most prominent liberal personalities, Bill Maher and Michael Moore, said the Republican Party's opposition to President Barack Obama at almost every turn amounts to anti-American criminality.

David Brooks: ‘We as a country have become over-addicted to scandal’

1:10 PM 05/18/2013

In his most recent column, The New York Times’ David Brooks downplayed the scandal over last September’s Benghazi terrorist attack. He declared that the maneuvering from the Obama administration was less a cover-up than an interagency turf war.

Brit Hume: I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rubio vote against final immigration bill [AUDIO]

4:57 PM 05/17/2013

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume warned Friday that the "Gang of Eight" efforts to pass immigration reform could be in trouble not only in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, but also in the Democratic-controlled Senate as well.