Star witness to stay mum for House hearing on IRS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness....

GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the IRS asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational....

Garcetti builds growing lead as LA picks new mayor
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Councilman Eric Garcetti, who jammed with pop star Moby and fashioned himself as a voice for a new generation of city leaders, has opened a growing lead in the race for Los Angeles mayor with the pool of uncounted ballots steadily shrinking....

Anthony Weiner launches bid to become NYC mayor
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on....

Gov't dysfunction may be baked into the system
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so....

Immigration bill heads to full Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict....

Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress - a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies....

Republican divisions may hinder party's momentum
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A string of unrelated events are highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a united front and take full advantage of President Barack Obama's latest political problems....

House panel seeks to curb military sexual assaults
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Determined to check the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the armed forces, a House panel is poised to approve a series of revisions to longstanding military law. They include stripping commanding officers of their unilateral authority to change or dismiss a court-martial conviction and requiring that service members found guilty of sexual offenses be dismissed or dishonorably discharged....

Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to seize them as terrorist suspects, officials say, but prefers to wait until investigators have enough evidence to try them in a U.S. civilian courtroom....