Josh Duggar, the oldest of the 19 Duggar children, is leaving the family's home state of Arkansas and moving to D.C. for a job with the Family Research Council.
A huge Guardian scoop Wednesday evening revealed confirmation of an indiscriminate phone records collection program, encompassing the calls of every Verizon customer on a daily basis — that's millions of Americans' phone data.
A bit of bad news for those of you hoping to play a few rounds and/or skin an animal while zipping between LGA and SFO. The TSA's plan to allow bats and small knives on flights — announced three months ago today — has been scrapped.
Darrell Issa, please come collect your scalp. It's a valuable one: The guy the IRS put in charge of implementing Obamacare has been placed on leave for taking improper gifts.
Marco Rubio is threatening to vote against his own immigration reform bill, Utah Sen. Mike Lee says he "cannot support" the "nonsensical" bill, and now comes a report that bipartisan immigration talks in the House have failed. But here's the real problem.
Senator Lindsey Graham needs to know what a "journalist" is. No, really, he needs to know that. He needs to know who is a member of the media and what constitutes reporting if the federal government is to give them people protection under the law. It's a question that has become only more complex.
This time, conservative leaders and critics are beginning to drop their defenses much more quickly — perhaps because there's no confirmation process for Rice's new position as national security adviser, and there's nothing much they can ultimately do about it. Here's a guide, still with plenty of anger but ultimately acceptance, to that transformation in the making.
The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens arrived for their customary visit to the White House on Wednesday, only for President Obama set up a battle of the Joes, for the eternal affection of Delmarva and beyond.
The candidate for Virginia lieutenant governor has a lot of opinions — especially on gays, like that they are "ikky" — that have made him more famous than you might expect. On Wednesday, we learned that Jackson's book warns that yoga can put you at risk for satanic possession.
Government investigators have figured out the source of one particular leak of classified information to the media. But that leak probably won't be the subject of the seventh Obama administration leak prosecution. The leaker was the former Secretary of Defense; the leak recipient, the makers of Zero Dark Thirty.
Republicans wanted a do-over on Benghazi. They got it, but with today's appointment of Rice as national security adviser, Obama is signaling that he thinks he won round two. Here's the tale of the tapping — and how the emails went mainstream, and then didn't.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday is one of the first to combine assessments of the current controversies with an historic look at voters' approval of the president. In that way, it's revelatory.
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart announced the prize for victor of the Iraq War, and the nominees were Iraq, the United States, and Daniel Day-Lewis. But the winner wasn't even nominated. It was China, for its oil.
In a big shake-up of the President's inner circle (and a big thumb in the eye of Senate Republicans) National Security Adviser Tom Donilon is resigning his post ... and it's going to Susan Rice.
Michelle Obama isn't quite as tolerant of hecklers as her husband is, if a late Tuesday confrontation is any indication.
Republican Representative Trent Franks wanted this May to be the sequel to America's "Newtown moment" on gun control But instead of pushing for background checks, Frank is trying to pass a nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who everyone expects to run for president in 2016, has proposed a bill that would amend the Constitution of the United States to prevent the government from enacting Obamacare. It will never, ever happen.
Another Romneyesque figure has been spotted in President Obama's administration. Michael Froman, nominated to be the U.S. trade representative, has about $500,000 in a Cayman Islands account.
Military commanders made it very clear, in a Senate hearing on sexual assault in the armed forces on Tuesday, that they do not want a bunch of senators taking away their power to discipline their own troops. The question now is how much power they'll lose.
Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under Bush, jokingly suggests in an interview that he "can't tell" if maybe President Obama now wants the terrorists to win the War on Terror. We assess how Obama can prove his loyalty.
The expenses detailed in an Inspector General's report are embarrassing, including $50,000 for videos like that Star Trek parody. But in 2011, the president signed an executive order barring such excess. Which would be close to the end of the story if it weren't for the three politically-charged letters on the report's cover: I. R. S.
Nearly seven months after President Obama won reelection by a margin of 4 percentage points, the Gallup Organization, the world's best-known polling firm, identified in a new report four main reasons why their 2012 surveys badly understated Obama's support.
Representatives of a handful of organizations targeted by the IRS appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee today at Congress' fifth hearing on the scandal, offering more anecdotes and quotes than insight into the IRS' behavior. This is where the investigation is: If you've got an interpretation of how the IRS acted badly, the president's opponents are all ears.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has set the special election to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday, for October. The primary will be in August. So we now have a little window into how Christie's making his calculations — and getting the love of New Jersey voters is pretty clearly his priority over the love of conservative presidential primary voters.
Bob Woodward is perhaps the country's only official validator of political scandal. For months, Republicans and sympathetic parties in the media have been enticing Woodward to apply the stamp to Obama. So far, they've had no success.
While pundits wonder why President Obama won't impose his will on House Republicans, the mystical manipulation mystery for GOP Congressional leaders is why they won't impose their will on House conservatives.
The White House Rose Garden is rarely a scene of insurrection. But the president used the setting this morning for phase one of a strategy that could end with Senate Democrats exercising the "nuclear option" to reset rules around the use of the filibuster. All by simply saying three names.
The Daily Show returned from a week off last night, and Jon Stewart decided to tackle John McCain's trip to Syria, where the senator may have taken a picture with two men who may have kidnapped Shiite Muslims last year.
The rising percentage of parents opting out of at least one mandatory vaccination could be a major factor in the recent increase in whooping cough cases, according to a study out today
Jill Kelley, the Tampa "socialite" who inadvertently led the FBI to evidence of Paula Broadwell and David Petreaus's affair, is suing the FBI, the Department of Defense and other unnamed government officials because, she says, the agencies violated her privacy, as well as that of her husband.
The College National Republican Committee goes where the Republican National Committee wouldn't dare in its 2012 election autopsy — they admit that it's not just the party's positions on gay marriage and abortion that repel young voters. It's the economic policy, too.
President Obama gave a speech about bringing mental health "out of the shadows" on Monday, and because he is for it, that means somebody has to be against it.
On the third-to-last day that Senator Frank Lautenberg ever voted in the Senate, he joined with 53 of his colleagues to support a compromise on new gun regulations. His vote wasn't enough. Now, Lautenberg's death makes the prospect of revisiting that issue — and a number of other Democratic priorities, including the filibuster and immigration reform — substantially trickier.
After the death of Frank Lautenberg, the United States Senate has now seen a remarkable 299 sitting senators die in office, according to data from the body's website — nearly enough to populate three senates of their own. On average, that's one death every nine months.
Trump says that even though he won the Republican primary for Mitt Romney, Romney didn't call him a single time. Trump thinks he could have won Florida for Romney, too, if Romney hadn't been too chicken. But that's fine, because Trump is considering another fake presidential campaign.
New Jersey's senior senator died early Wednesday morning at age 89 of viral pneumonia. Governor Chris Christie is likely to appoint a Republican to the seat.
In a decades-long campaign by the National Rifle Association and other groups to deny cities the power to regulate guns, even the smallest local rules are now coming under attack.
A group of GOP congressmen, with Steven Seagal as tour guide, wrapped up a fact-finding trip to Russia, where they apparently failed to find any significant clues related to the Boston bombings. But the mission had a secondary effect.
Everyone was talking about Attorney General Eric Holder and the IRS scandal on this week's Sunday talk shows. Issa made the biggest statement with a transcript that might show direction for Tea Party scrutiny came from Washington while also calling Jay Carney a "paid liar." Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer says immigration reform will pass the Senate on July 4!
If things had gone differently last November when President Obama soundly secured a second term over Republican nominee Mitt Romney, had Romney come away the victor, the White House would have received a massive Bain-ification day 1 makeover.
Meet Bryan R. Holloway. He represents North Carolina's 91st District in the state House of Representatives. He's also, if Ivy Style and Complex are to be believed, the author of a preppy clothing blog called Wasp 101.
On Friday's edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper, Emmy-winning reporter Tom Foreman (also the guy with that hologram sheep) took the risk of Fantastic Voyage-style interactions with several dangerous asteroids. When we say Fantastic Voyage-style, by the way, we mean "predicated on corny special effects."
Through a month of scandal, a growing number of people conveniently claimed that the IRS had audited them because they are conservative — and claimed as much without much more proof than that 1) the IRS had audited them and 2) they are conservative.
Michael Bloomberg revealed in a radio interview Friday that his understanding of how marijuana works could be considered as baffling as his administration's approach to marijuana-related crimes. Except that his weird justifications might explain the bad policies.
Curtis Morrison, the guy behind the recording of a Mitch McConnell campaign strategy session, has confessed to the deed in a lengthy post at Salon. In summary: He has not learned any lesson.
The two men are absent by choice, and they say as much in new interviews out today. Lean-in pioneer Sheryl Sandberg would probably have some advice for these guys.
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