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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The IRS says the agency's commissioner won't appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, May 24, 2106, examining whether he deserves to be impeached. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

John Koskinen, IRS chief: I’ve never spoken to Lois Lerner

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has declined to testify in his own defense at a congressional hearing Tuesday, but insisted in a statement that his bungling of a subpoena doesn't rise to the level of "treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors" needed for him to be impeached.

May 23, 2016
Iker Velasquez, 4, who came from Honduras with his parents, holds a U.S. glad as he listens while Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., speaks to the media with children and families from Central America, to speak about the conditions for Central American immigrants who he describes as refugees from violence, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Illegal immigrants kept in poor facilities, advocates say

Homeland Security is holding illegal immigrant children for too long, sticking them in jail-like facilities and failing to tell them they can be sent to live with relatives already in the U.S., advocates charged in new court filings Thursday, demanding a special monitor be imposed to oversee all family detention.

May 19, 2016
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi: Too many superdelegates in nomination process

The Democratic Party relies too heavily on superdelegates to pick its presidential nominees, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday -- though she downplayed the current dispute between party leaders and Sen. Bernard Sanders.

May 19, 2016
Donald Trump didn't address his reversal Tuesday, instead trumpeting the agreement. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump agrees to raise money for RNC

Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee announced late Tuesday they've reached an agreement to have him raise money for the party, breaking the candidate's previous stance against active fundraising for his political campaign.

May 17, 2016
FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, Libyan civilians watch fires at an Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound, after hundreds of Libyans, Libyan Military, and Police raided the Brigades base, in Benghazi, Libya. Factions of the group in 2014 pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. Even before the film’s release, Hollywood director Michael Bay’s new action movie is stirring controversy among government officials and residents of Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and the birthplace of the uprising against longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The film, “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” depicts the events of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. It is set to be released in January 2016.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

Democrats blast Benghazi probe amid new Pentagon questions

Democrats demanded Monday that Congress cancel the special investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attack and accused committee Chairman Trey Gowdy of straying into dangerous political territory while searching for a reason to continue its probe.

May 16, 2016