First lady to high school grads: Live your dreams

By ERIK SCHELZIG| Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Michelle Obama Commencement

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.Read more

Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

The Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Obama Cabinet golf

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf - in the rain.Read more

Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee

By BOB LEWIS| AP Political Writer|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

GOP Convention

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.Read more

A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back

By CONNIE CASS| Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Benghazi News Guide

WASHINGTON — The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.Read more

IRS probe ignored most influential groups

By KEN THOMAS and STEVE PEOPLES| Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

IRS Outside Groups

WASHINGTON — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.Read more

Obama to address Morehouse College commencement

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE| Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Obama

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.Read more

Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles

By BILL BARROW and THOMAS BEAUMONT| Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Senate-Democratic Struggles

ATLANTA — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.Read more

Myanmar leader, Obama to meet while reforms stall

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON| Associated Press|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Myanmar-Pledges

WASHINGTON — Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on a principle of taking "action for action" by deepening ties in response to democratic reforms.Read more

Obama agenda marches on despite controversies

By DAVID ESPO| AP Special Correspondent|Saturday, May. 18, 2013

Obama

WASHINGTON — Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.Read more

Colorado sheriffs sue over new gun restrictions

By IVAN MORENO| Associated Press|Friday, May. 17, 2013

Colorado Gun Laws Sheriffs

DENVER — Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.Read more