CNN Poll: Have new controversies hurt Obama?  Has GOP overreacted?  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama comes out of what was arguably the worst week of his presidency with his approval rating holding steady, according to a new national poll.  —  But a CNN/ORC International survey …

Darrell Issa: 'You Don't Accuse The IRS Until You've Had A Nonpartisan, Deep Look'  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said earlier this week in a little-noticed interview that he knew “approximately” what the IRS inspector general would report about selective targeting of conservative groups …

Google insider exposes ‘immoral’ tax scam  —  Former Google executive Barney Jones has a cache of 100,000 emails and documents (Paul Vicente)  —  A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds …

Second intifada icon Muhammad Al-Dura didn't die in 2000 shooting, Israel claims  —  Government committee rejects not only the accusation that the IDF killed the 12-year-old Gaza boy in a gunfight, but that he died at all  —  Muhammad al-Dura, the Palestinian child who appeared …

Killing in Greenwich Village Looks Like Hate Crime, Police Say  —  The violence took place just blocks from the Stonewall Inn, perhaps the most important landmark of the gay liberation struggle.  A young man screamed antigay slurs at another man on a street in Greenwich Village on Friday night …

Climate Warnings, Growing Louder  —  The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years increases the pressure on President Obama to deliver on his pledges to limit this country's greenhouse gas emissions.

Republican Virginia Lt. Governor Nominee: Obama Sees World “From A Muslim Perspective”  —  “Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities.  He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective.  —  The Virginia Republican Party picked conservative minister E.W. Jackson as their nominee for lieutenant governor Saturday night.

AP chief: DOJ seizure an ‘unconstitutional act’  —  Associated Press CEO Gary Pruitt on Sunday slammed the Justice Department's (DOJ) seizure of the wire service's phone records as an “unconstitutional act.”  —  “We don't question their right to conduct these sort of investigations, we just think they went about it the wrong way.

Minnesota State Rep Calls Climate Change ‘Complete United Nations Fraud And Lie’  —  Matt Kasper is the Special Assistant for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress.  —  Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen  —  On Wednesday night, Minnesota State Representative Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) …