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On the day of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, meets with reporters at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, after a GOP strategy session. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP offers to cooperate with Obama on limited agenda

Responding to President Obama's State of the Union challenge, House Republican leaders on Thursday offered the White House a list of areas where they believe they can cooperate this year on legislation — focused chiefly on jobs and energy.

January 30, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP wants key Justice Dept. lawyer to testify in IRS scandal probe

The House oversight committee has asked a lawyer who's helping run the criminal investigation into IRS targeting of tea party groups to testify to Congress next week, seeking to find out where the investigation stands and whether her political leanings have undermined the probe.

January 29, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2104, while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Eric Holder: Criminal charges still possible in IRS scandal

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that the Justice Department could still bring criminal charges against IRS officials for targeting tea party groups, contradicting press reports that said investigators have already concluded no crime was committed.

January 29, 2014
Snow falls at the White House shortly after President Barack Obama returned from the U.S. Capitol where he made his State of the Union speech in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama’s SOTU speech leaves environmentalists feeling cold

Despite promising to do an end-run around Congress to fight global warming in his Tuesday speech, President Obama is still taking heat from environmental activists for not going further and attacking all fossil fuels.

January 29, 2014
** FILE ** President Obama, a former community organizer who understood the power of building collective action, decided to update the practice for the 21st century and announced the We the People project in 2011. (Associated Press)

White House’s ‘We the People’ petition site slows to a trickle

After a feverish postelection flurry of responses in late 2012, the White House has dramatically slowed down its answers to petitions the public has filed on President Obama's We the People website, leaving the project stumbling even as it turns into a forum for international communities to settle scores.

January 28, 2014
**FILE** Volunteers harvest hemp at a farm in Springfield, Colo., on Oct. 5, 2013, during the first known harvest of industrial hemp in the U.S. since the 1950s. America is one of hemp's fastest-growing markets, with imports largely coming from China and Canada. Most of that is hemp seed and hemp oil, which finds its way into granola bars, soaps, lotions and even cooking oil. (Associated Press)

Christmas tree fee, hemp support find way into farm bill

Tucked inside the massive new farm bill, which House Republican leaders are speeding to the floor, is a controversial 15-cent fee the government will collect on every Christmas tree cut in or imported into the U.S.

January 28, 2014
** FILE ** Justin Bieber appears in court via video feed, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in Miami. Bieber was released from jail Thursday following his arrest on charges of driving under the influence, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest. Police say they stopped the 19-year-old pop star while he was drag-racing down a Miami Beach street before dawn. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Walter Michot, Pool)

Deport Bieber petition nears success

The White House petition to deport Justin Bieber is more than halfway to success, surging beyond 60,000 signatures Tuesday morning and putting it well on pace to reach the 100,000 needed to earn an official response.

January 28, 2014
President Barack Obama works at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, ahead of Tuesday night's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

State of the Union: Few will tune in as Obama becomes lame duck

With the State of the Union proving ever less entrancing for viewers, the White House is desperate to turn the speech into a multiday event in an effort to bolster interest in Mr. Obama's policies, even if people don't tune in to hear his words.

January 27, 2014
**FILE** Pro-union demonstrators crowd the Rotunda of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing to chant against right-to-work legislation on Dec. 5, 2012. (Associated Press/Detroit News)

Labor union membership ticks up

Labor union membership rose slightly in 2013, according to new government statistics released Friday that showed at least a temporary reprieve in the long-term travails for the labor movement.

January 24, 2014
FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world — but not in the United States — that allows the U.S. to conduct surveillance on those machines, The New York Times reported Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. ((AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Privacy board rules NSA snooping illegal

The federal government violated the Patriot Act by stockpiling Americans' phone records and the phone companies are violating other federal laws by turning over the information, a federal privacy watchdog said Thursday, adding more hurdles for advocates who are trying to preserve the snooping program.

January 23, 2014
ASSOCIATED PRESS Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state, said a new conservative super PAC that seeks to fund state secretary of state candidates is proof that conservatives have learned their lessons. "I think it's a balancing act now, sort of balancing the scales," he said.

Conservative super PAC to fund secretary of state hopefuls

With voter-ID laws and other reforms taking center stage, a conservative group said Wednesday it is launching a new super PAC to fund state secretary of state candidates willing to go toe-to-toe with Democrats and defend more rigorous voter roll rules and stiffer election requirements.

January 22, 2014
**FILE** A man fills his gas tank Aug. 29, 2012, at a gas station in Lyndhurst, Ohio. (Associated Press)

As U.S. supply accelerates, gas prices stuck in neutral

America is in the midst of an energy boom has left the country floating in crude oil and natural gas — but consumers are seeing only modest returns at the gas pump, where analysts said the chief benefit has been stability, not cost-cutting.

January 21, 2014
**FILE** Rep. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican, speaks during a town hall meeting in Del City, Okla., on July 2, 2013. (Associated Press)

Fight seen for Coburn’s Senate seat as Lankford jumps in

Rep. James Lankford said Monday he'll run to serve out the term of retiring Sen. Tom Coburn in Oklahoma, setting up what could be another brutal primary GOP battle involving outside conservative pressure groups and the party's establishment.

January 20, 2014