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Barack Obama must act like a true leader Observer editorial

It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind him

It is a simple fact of American politics that power starts to fade away from a second-term president almost from the moment t

Bobby Jindal calls for jailing of IRS officials behind Tea Party targeting

Louisiana governor uses speech to Virginia Republicans to say Barack Obama 'bears responsibility' as scandals continue

The governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, on Saturday called for any Inland Revenue Service officials who are found to have unfairly targeted conservative g

Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas" Stringent 12-Week Abortion Ban From Taking Effect

Earlier this year, Arkansas Republicans overrode their governor to enact one of the harshest abortion restrictions in the nation, a 12-week ban that would criminalize one out of every 10 abortions in the state.

Outgoing IRS chief deflects Republican attempts to link scandal to White House

Steven Miller issues public apology at House hearing in which he blamed tax-targeting scandal on procedure, not politics

Republican attempts to turn the row over the IRS into a scandal engulfing the White House fizzled on Friday when the ousted head of the agency delivered a public apology

US lawmakers reach deal on pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants

Republicans appear to reach deal with Hispanic caucus as one activist says 'that's like Israelis and Palestinians making peace'

Hopes that America's 11 million undocumented migrants might be granted a pathway to US citizenship have risen significantly after a bipartisan group of politicians

Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration's scandals Ana Marie Cox

Republicans could waste the White House's 'worst weeks ever' to a lack of strategy and rogue members of their own party

There's something already dangerously smug about the way that the Republican Party and the media, for that matter have described the past two weeks as the White House's

GOP Sources Altered Benghazi E-Mails To Suggest A Cover-Up, Reporter Confirms

Since September, Republicans have claimed the Obama administration covered up the truth about the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya by altering the talking points Susan Rice used on the Sunday morning talk shows.

Treasury Department Begins Preparing For Debt Ceiling Hostage Negotiations

At noon on Friday, the Treasury Department began the latest round of accounting contortionism brought on by Republicans’ refusal to raise the debt ceiling.

97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made

An anonymous reader writes "A meta-study published yesterday looked at over 12,000 peer-reviewed papers on climate science that appeared in journals between 1991 and 2011.

This is not the Obama administration's 'Watergate moment' Sarah Posner

When the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities held its first Watergate hearing 40 years ago today, it was, by most accounts, a dull affair.