BARACK OBAMA

President Barack Obama will meet Myanmar’s President Thein Sein on Monday, amid apprehensions over sustainability of the nation’s reforms.

The planned speech on antiterrorism policy may let the U.S. president reframe the national debate after an embarrassing week of scandals.

As graduating seniors exit the ivory tower, politicians and media figures will send them off with some parting words of wisdom.

Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war came to a bloody end exactly four years ago, but for the northern Tamils, it's not such a distant memory.

The death toll in Syria is now above 80,000 and the number of refugees stands at 1.5 million, according to U.N. estimates.

Danny Werfel currently serves as the controller for the Office of Management and Budget. He starts at the IRS on May 22.

The House Agriculture Committee passed its 2013 farm bill, a monster worth nearly a trillion dollars -- you read that right.

Despite pressure from the U.S. to skip it, Recep Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed his decision to visit Gaza.

At least 50,000 African migrants live in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul. About one-third of them are from sub-Saharan Africa.

The oil and gas giant says false and excessive claims are putting its finances at risk, possibly inviting a takeover.

Obama was asked about the AP phone records scandal, as well as pressing foreign affairs.

In essence, Syria has become not just a gruesome civil war, but also a proxy war with significant global implications.

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller had stepped down in the face of simmering controversy.

Obama's second-term agenda is stalled by the controversies, but it remains to be seen what the longer-term effects might be.

Media Matters is coming under fire for a talking-points bulletin that seemed to defend the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records.

If there is no evidence the IRS was acting on an order from higher-ups, then the president may just walk away unscathed.

According to the Pew Research Center, President Obama got 60% of the Florida Hispanic vote in 2012.

In the wake of scandals involving the IRS and the Associated Press, critics are drawing comparisons between President Obama and Richard Nixon.

The U.S. Attorney General is under more fire as new scandals erupt. Do you think he needs to go?

In a closed-door meeting with religious figures, Vice President Joe Biden made statements concerning the possible increased taxation of companies that make violent video games.

TheTeaParty.net questions why the IRS gave an apology long after the first alarm sounded and ahead of an inspector general report.