As the IRS scandal reached its fifth day, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that IRS acting commissioner Steven Miller has resigned his post, the first casualty of what will be a lengthy investigation.

All right. everyone take a deep breath. Now exhale.

Choosing to use investigative tools Justice has resisted in the past, investigators not only went with the subpoena, they did it without notifying the AP.

A wave of Democratic stalwarts are leaving the Senate next year

Five presidents gather for first time in four years

The debate grows over anti-terror reforms in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing

Republican leaders left a party confab in Los Angeles last week in agreement that they can no longer be “the party of no.” They were less clear on what to say “yes” to.

Republican leaders plotted their party’s political comeback on Thursday with plans to court minority voters and modernize their political operations. But some wondered if one person could make it all for naught: Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Rand Paul told students and faculty members at Howard University that Republicans need to change the way they connect with black voters

Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the Senate’s gun-control bill, scheduling a key procedural vote on guns for later this week.