| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
CINCINNATI — Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
RICHMOND, Va. — An embezzling case that began with a chef being accused of stealing food from Virginia's Executive Mansion and morphed into a political scandal involving two of the state's most powerful politicians has some people wondering: What goes on behind the wide double doors of the governor's house?
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
PHOENIX — In the chaotic moments after a gunman wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, investigators quickly turned a patrol car into a makeshift whiteboard, using markers to scrawl relevant information about the investigation.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
SEATTLE — As Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands of more people who flee persecution in their home countries.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
SEATTLE — While Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands more people who flee persecution in their home countries.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
"I told him we're going to play tent in the closet. I just felt air so I knew the roof was gone." - Chelsie McCumber, who grabbed her 2-year-old son, Ethan, and rode out the deadly Oklahoma twister in a coat closet.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
MOORE, Okla. — With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Regular train service is returning to Connecticut, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.