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President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2016, after getting briefed on the investigation of a shooting at a nightclub in Orlando by FBI Director James Comey, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and other officials. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama dubs Orlando attack ‘homegrown’ terrorism

It's difficult to spot lone-wolf terrorists ahead of time, but the country could do more to try to deny them access to the weapons they use, President Obama said Monday, in the wake of the weekend's shooting rampage that left more than 100 dead or wounded in Orlando, Florida.

June 13, 2016
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee during a series of early-morning raids on March 3, 2015, in the Bronx borough of New York. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House orders Library of Congress to maintain ‘illegal alien’

The House voted Friday to order the Library of Congress to keep using the term "illegal alien" to describe those who come to the U.S. without authorization, saying that as long as federal laws written by Congress use those terms, so should their official records-keeper.

June 10, 2016
"You want the Republican nominee to be somebody who could do the job if they win. And you want folks who understand the issues. And where you can sit across the table from 'em and you have a principled argument. And ultimately can still move the country forward," Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript provided by NBC. (Associated Press)

Obama ‘worried’ for GOP under Donald Trump

President Obama said Wednesday he's "worried" for the GOP, saying the country is better off when there are two healthy political parties but Republicans' choice of Donald Trump to be their presidential nominee suggests deep problems.

June 8, 2016
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

IRS computer hack was worse than agency admitted

The IRS's computer hack was worse than previously admitted, and the tax agency failed to alert thousands of people that their information was stolen, and didn't give credit monitoring assistance to nearly 80,000 others who were targeted, an inspector general said Wednesday.

June 8, 2016
President Obama listens at right as U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch speaks Nov. 8, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, where the president announced he would nominate Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Judge blocks his own order sending Obama lawyers to ethics class

Justice Department lawyers and illegal immigrants won a temporary reprieve this week after Judge Andrew S. Hanen blocked his own order sending the lawyers back to remedial ethics classes, and ordering the government to turn over information on tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who were erroneously granted a three-year deportation amnesty.

June 7, 2016
Donald Trump (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump says his judge attack is ‘misconstrued’

Donald Trump said Tuesday that his attack on a federal judge is being "misconstrued," insisting it's not an attack on all Mexicans, as he sought to tamp down on the first major crisis of his post-primary campaign.

June 7, 2016
In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 photo, Rep. Renee Ellmers listens while facing off with Dr. Greg Brannon and Rep. George Holding during the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary debate at WRAL studio in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, Pool)

Donald Trump endorses Renee Ellmers in North Carolina, shocking his supporters

Donald Trump's endorsement of Rep. Renee Ellmers in North Carolina sent shock waves through the likely GOP presidential nominee's supporters over the weekend, stoking new fears about his political reliability after the first person he backed has a record diametrically opposed to him on immigration.

June 6, 2016
This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington. Millions of taxpayers face a midnight deadline Monday, March 18, 2016, to file their tax returns, while millions of other Americans seek more time, a six-month extension. The filing deadline was delayed three days beyond the traditional April 15 deadline, because Friday was a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) — FILE

IRS: White House never asked for secret information on taxpayers

The White House never requested any secret taxpayer information from the IRS, the tax agency said in a sworn statement filed with a federal court on Friday, hoping to put to rest lingering questions about whether political operatives tried to peek at confidential records.

June 3, 2016
In this Dec. 8, 2011, file-pool photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hands off her mobile phone after arriving for a meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool, File)

Hillary Clinton’s chief email defense is false

Hillary Clinton's chief defense of her email behavior is that she tried to forward her messages so they were captured by the State Department -- but a Washington Times analysis found she clearly did that only a quarter of the time when she was corresponding with someone outside the department.

June 1, 2016
Cheryl Mills, in sworn testimony ordered by a federal judge taken last week and released Tuesday, said Hillary Clinton and her team were occupied with too many other things to think about going through their official records and making sure they remained with the department — a requirement of multiple federal laws and agency policies. (Associated Press)

Cheryl Mills blames Clinton email bungle on Benghazi terrorist attack

Cheryl Mills, the former chief of staff at the State Department, partly blamed the Benghazi terrorist attack for former Secretary Hillary Clinton failing to turn over her emails as she left office in 2013, saying there was "a lot going on" that distracted them from fulfilling their obligations under open-records laws.

May 31, 2016