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Beset by scandal at home and abroad, Obama's only luck has been in his opponents' tin ear for the public mood President Barack Obama defends his administration's actions in the wake of the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

On Sunday, Sen. Mitch McConnell took to Meet the Press to respond to the IRS scandal that has been dominating the news cycle recently.

On the cold open of Saturday's broadcast of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," Kenan Thompson impersonated of MSNBC "Politics Nation" host Al Sharpton, in a clip that also parodied Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.

House Democrats left Washington on Friday insisting they're not worried about political fallout after one of the most difficult weeks the Obama administration has endured.

Meet the Press : White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer ; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ; Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ; Rep.

The Internal Revenue Service official charged with overseeing tax-exempt organizations when conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny now runs the agency's office responsible for implementing Obamacare.

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer said Friday he is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year if Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes declines to enter the race against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.

As the GOP-controlled House of Representatives prepares again to vote this week on a repeal of the 2010 health law, some key Republican senators have seized on recent news developments to show their ire.

The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen.

Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority - yet as the US Farm Bill demonstrates, sustainably grown, healthy food and livable incomes for farmers and workers remain an afterthought in a process controlled almost entirely by agribusiness and a handful of farm-state legislators.

The Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS , the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack.

May 17 - Today Greenpeace placed a full-page ad in the Lexington Herald-Leader reminding Senator McConnell that "Free Speech Isn't Just for People You Agree With." The Kentucky Senator has stated he is "deeply disturbed" by the recent allegedly politically motivated audits of tea party groups by the IRS, though he was notably silent during similar ... (more)

A video posted on the Politico website featuring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's chief of staff has been taken down after the Kentucky Republican's office objected to its placement on a page designed to solicit advertisers.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen Mitch McConnell speaks as Sen. Ted Cruz , Rep. Michele Bachmann, Sen.

Senator Lamar Alexander announced that the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed his legislation that would immediately ban the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from implementing fishing restrictions for two years, the second time in as many days senators have supported "the freedom to fish below publicly owned dams on the Cumberland River." Thursday's action ... (more)

On Thursday, McConnell found himself flanked by tea-party-backed Bachmann, left, and King at a news conference outside the Capitol.

Obama may be on the verge of joining a long list of his predecessors who ran into severe political problems in their second terms in office.

In 1964, an ambitious young student at the University of Louisville made an impassioned plea to his classmates, urging them to march in solidarity with Martin Luther King Jr.

US Attorney General Eric Holder sat before the House Judiciary Committee and told them all the things he does not know.

A Senate committee voted along party lines on Thursday to send President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.