A group that supports President Obama is trying to link an anti-abortion measure passed Tuesday by the House of Representatives to Rep. Todd Akin's comment last summer that women cannot become pregnant after a "legitimate rape."
California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is calling for a "full investigation" into President Obama's meeting with Albanian Socialist leader Edi Rama at a San Francisco fundraiser last year.
CBS News reporter Elizabeth Palmer likened new Iranian president-elect Hasan Rowhani to an American tea party activist in a weekend interview on the network.
Embattled IRS official Holly Paz is believed to have been fired from the scandal-ridden agency, indicating that the growing IRS scandal could end up implicating more IRS agents than previously thought.
The pro-Gabriel Gomez super PAC Americans for Progressive Action launched an ad blasting Ed Markey for voting to allow the IRS to implement Obamacare, marking one of the first instances of the growing IRS scandal being used in a state election.
Top congressional investigators from both parties vowed Friday to expand their respective investigations into the IRS targeting scandal, with one leading House investigator suggesting the Obama administration had a role in the scandal and slapping down claims that the IRS' misconduct was not planned and coordinated.
The chief counsel in the nationwide class-action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service said that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' claim that a lone "conservative Republican" was responsible for the agency's improper targeting of conservatives is "ridiculous."
A potential juror in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial in Florida expressed fear Wednesday that she could be the victim of violence if picked for the trial, indicating that tensions are still running high in the community after Zimmerman shot 17-year old high school student Trayvon Martin last year.
Republican Texas senator Ted Cruz admitted Wednesday to suffering from a case of "Obamaphobia."
Democratic Detroit City Council candidate David Bullock secretly planned a traffic jam as an act of political protest against the city's emergency manager in coordination with a local chapter of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, according to surreptitiously recorded video obtained by The Daily Caller.
The tea party group targeted by infamous Washington-based IRS lawyer Carter C. Hull said that its members are now afraid to send in donations, for fear that their names will be linked to conservative politics in the view of the federal government.
Rep. Elijah Cummings has yet to reveal the name of the "conservative Republican" IRS agent he claims started the agency's improper targeting of conservative groups, despite evidence that the targeting was overseen by a registered Democrat working out of Washington, D.C.
The IRS told a pro-life group to stop protesting outside abortion clinics because "you cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else," according to audio of a phone conversation conducted in March 2012. The federal tax collector also sent the group a letter in non-idiomatic English demanding further information.
"Impeach Obama" protesters are being blamed for causing a traffic jam on a perpetually jammed Southern California freeway this weekend.
Gun control advocates like New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg have been quiet in the aftermath of Friday's Santa Monica College shooting.
Carter C. Hull, the Washington-based Internal Revenue Service lawyer who oversaw improper targeting of tea party groups, is a registered Democrat.
Carter Hull, the Washington-based IRS lawyer who oversaw targeting of conservative groups beginning in 2010, will retire this summer.
An Albanian politician under investigation for corruption arranged a $10,000 contribution to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign in order to set up a photo opportunity between Obama and the leader of the Socialist Party of Albania.
Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in congressional testimony Thursday that he does not know how much money was paid in bonuses to embattled former IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram because he does not have the "right staff here" to investigate the widely-reported issue. Werfel also said he does not know whether the IRS targeted non-501(c)(4) groups because he has only been at the IRS for "two weeks."
