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    • A battered sign stands outside the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. (Charlie Riedel/AP)President Barack Obama will travel to Oklahoma City on Sunday "to see first-hand the response to the devastating tornadoes and severe weather" that ravaged the area, meet with families affected by the devastation, and thank emergency responders, the White House announced Friday.

      On Tuesday, Obama will head to the Jersey Shore to assess the rebuilding and recovery efforts in the months since deadly Superstorm Sandy battered the coast.

      "The president, joined by Governor Chris Christie, will visit with families and business owners who have shown such resilience in the face of the destructive storm, highlight the extensive rebuilding efforts to date, and underscore his administration’s ongoing commitment to stand with the impacted communities as the important work of recovery continues," the White House said.

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    • President Barack Obama speaks at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement ceremony in Annapolis, Md., May 24, 2013. (Larry Downing/Reuters)President Barack Obama on Friday warned that sexual assault in the military amounts to a national security threat as he enlisted graduating Navy ensigns and Marine second lieutenants at the U.S. Naval Academy in a campaign to stamp it out.

      “Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that makes our military strong,” Obama said in remarks at the school’s commencement in Annapolis, Md. “That’s why we have to be determined to stop these crimes, because they’ve got no place in the greatest military on earth.”

      Obama tied the recently disclosed spate of sex assaults in the military to other scandals in which “the misdeeds of some” hurt the public’s faith in important institutions—from Wall Street to politicians to the civil service. He never named the IRS, but plainly alluded to wrongdoing there.

      “It’s no secret that, in recent decades, many Americans have lost confidence in many of the institutions that help shape our society and our democracy,” he said.

      “As we’ve seen again in recent days, it only takes the misconduct of a few to further erode the people’s trust in their government. That’s unacceptable to me, and I know it’s unacceptable to you."

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    • Left to right: Joseph McAuliffe, Bill Clinton and Terry McAuliffe. (Facebook.com)

      Terry McAuliffe, a Democratic operative embroiled in a tight race to become Virginia's next governor, knows a thing or two about conservatives like his Republican opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.

      That's in part because his older brother, Joseph McAuliffe, spent two decades as a Republican activist who worked for the evangelical leader Pat Robertson's presidential campaign, helped found a Christian political group in Florida, and was even arrested in the late 1980s while demonstrating at an abortion clinic.

      Born into an Irish-Catholic family in the 1950s in Syracuse, N.Y., the McAuliffe brothers, Terry, 56 and Joseph, 62, both grew up to pursue a political career, but on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum. Joseph spent the late 1970s and '80s working for conservatives, while Terry skyrocketed through the ranks of the Democratic Party.

      Despite Joseph's resume as a right-wing activist, he wasn't always a conservative Republican, and he has since disavowed many of

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