President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday during a press conference on Capitol Hill that the buck doesn’t stop with President Barack Obama on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, because he cannot “know about everything that is going on in [...]

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., left, and the committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., want answers from the IRS. (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) – What did the White House know about the IRS targeting conservative groups and when did it know it? Crucial evidence needed to develop an accurate [...]

A flag flies in the debris of a mobile home after a tornado struck a mobile home park near Dale, Okla., Sunday, May 19, 2013.pp_img type= MOORE, Okla. (AP) — A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a [...]

President Obama meets with Burmese President Thein Sein in the Oval Office on Monday, May 20, 2013 (Image: White House) (CNSNews.com) – Setting aside a long-held U.S. policy, President Obama — when hosting the president of Burma in the Oval Office on Monday — used the military-backed regime’s preferred term for the country, Myanmar – [...]

Cell phone (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The federal government is spending $146,944 in taxpayer funds to research sending automated text messages to people with depression to remind them to take their medication and monitor their mood and thoughts. The text messages will “prompt patients to monitor mood, thoughts and behaviors.” It will also “provide [...]

  (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The audience rose to its feet after Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) chided Acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller about the Internal Revenue Service’s  treatment of taxpayers at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday.   The hearing focused on the agency’s targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt [...]

First Lady Michelle Obama helps Emilio Vega, 11, plant wheat seeds in the garden on the South Lawn of the White House on April 4, 2013. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – First Lady Michelle Obama has expanded her anti-obesity campaign to museums, enlisting them to offer “healthy food options,” and change their menus. Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s [...]

(CNSNews.com) – An abortion fundraising group held its annual “Bowl-a-Thon” in April, raising more than $500,000 to “help women and girls pay for abortions they couldn’t otherwise afford.” The fourth annual “National Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon” broke fundraising records with a total of $552,498 raised. “THANK YOU for making the Fourth Annual National Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon [...]

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures toward a stack of paper representing the 20,000 pages of Affordable Health Care Act regulations during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) WASHINGTON (AP) — One more time, with feeling! The Republican-led House voted yet again Thursday to repeal [...]

A document (click on image to enlarge) released by the White House on Wednesday shows CIA deputy director Mike Morell’s pen edits to talking points about the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack. (CNSNews.com) – After days of media leaks and back-and-forth wrangling about administration officials’ deliberations on talking points about the Benghazi attack, the White House [...]