The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News. As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea...    

In the beginning President Obama approached the issue of gay marriage cautiously. He had long supported civil unions. He had worked to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and he'd come out against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married in their states. But even when he became the first sitting president in May of 2012 to say that he thought gays and lesbians should be able to marry, he moved carefully. When ... more

News of the Obama Administration’s role in the extensive editing of CIA talking points on Benghazi rocked the political world last week and prompted a demand from Speaker of the House John Boehner for the release of all related White House emails, but it should...    

By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES THE PLOT THICKENS: ABC News has obtained a draft of a soon-to-be-released investigative reporting showing that the Internal Revenue Service began targeting conservative groups as far back as 2010 and that senior IRS officials in Washington have known about it...    

The movement to legalize marijuana has arrived at Congress' back door with the planned opening of the first pot dispensaries in the nation's capital.