by Lauren Caruba | Feb 3, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs cut its backlog of hundreds of thousands of disability claims by nearly one-third last year but is still struggling to modernize an outdated processing system, a report released Monday by the Iraq and Afghanistan...
by Jonathan Palmer | Jan 28, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday night to provide money to states for early childhood education while asking Congress to make pre-K education available to every 4-year-old in America. “As Congress decides what it’s going to do, I’m going to pull...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 28, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — President Obama mounted a spirited defense of health care reform Tuesday night, acknowledging repeated attacks on the law while his administration works to smooth over its shaky rollout. The president, in his State of the Union address, gave his...
by Rebecca Nelson | Mar 13, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Here we go again: More than three years after President Barack Obama took office, a survey suggests a majority of Republican voters in two deep South states still think Obama is a Muslim. The Public Policy Polling survey asked likely Republican voters in...
by Shirley Li | Mar 6, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama faced an eager press Tuesday in his first official news conference this year, taking on tough topics ranging from the question of possible U.S. involvement in Syria to conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh. After quickly...