(5/20/2013) The leader of a union representing 12,000 federal immigration officers said Monday his group is joining a growing list of similar organizations opposed to the sweeping immigration bill crafted by the Gang of Eight lawmakers and under consideration in Congress.  

(5/19/2013) A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an irrelevant fact where the president was the night of the Benghazi terror attacks and saying the Obama administration wouldnt cooperate in partisan fishing expeditions over IRS officials targeting Tea Party groups.  

(5/19/2013) When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned cabin he had rented.  

(5/19/2013) President Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, told graduates of Morehouse College Sunday to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.  

(5/19/2013) Associated Press President Gary Pruitt said Sunday the Justice Department sent a strong and negative- message to future sources that the government would go after them if they spoke to the press. Its a move Pruitt called not only unconstitutional but said damaged the ideal of a free press in the country.  

(5/19/2013) 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.  

(5/19/2013) The heck with Harvard, says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  Most high school grads should learn a trade  . . .  like plumbing.  

(5/19/2013) White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday Republicans owe Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an apology for alleging she played a part in formulating the White Houses response to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya last year that killed four Americans.  

(5/19/2013) Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was born in Canada but is qualified to become president should he mount a campaign in 2016 or beyond.Cruz was born in Calgary, and his father is from Cuba. But the Republican senators mother is from the first state of Delaware, which appears to settles the issue.  

(5/19/2013) Senior White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told Fox News Sunday that President Obama learned about the Internal Revenue Service targeting tea party groups applying for tax exempt status only after it had come out in the media.  

(5/19/2013) There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.  

(5/19/2013) Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.  

(5/19/2013) Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons.  

(5/19/2013) 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.  

(5/19/2013) Seeking to keep pace with changing technology, Illinois toughened penalties Saturday for those who use social media and text messaging to organize violent "flash mobs" like those that have occurred on Chicago's Michigan Avenue and in other tourist areas.  

(5/18/2013) State Sen. Mark Obenshain has won the Republican nomination for attorney general in Virginia 35 years after his father won the party's U.S. Senate nomination.  

(5/18/2013) The first revelation that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups came in a planted question during a lawyers conference earlier this month, the attorney who asked the question confirmed Saturday with Fox News.  

(5/18/2013) Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota -- showing that Republicans aren't the only ones with internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.  

(5/18/2013) The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republicans that the federal government has become too big and out of control.  

(5/18/2013) Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.