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The Department of Veterans Affairs has been scrambling to fix its backlog, which has reached 584,308 claims that have been pending for 125 days or more. About 873,680 veterans have filed claims and that number continues to grow. Read More

There may still be over 1,200 days until the 2016 presidential election, but you wouldn’t know it from all the action in early primary states, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker heading to Iowa and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stopping in New Hampshire. Read More

President Obama commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy urged graduates to "constantly strive to remain worthy of the public trust." Read More

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, the Seaside Heights boardwalk is ready for business. Take a look at this time-lapse video, which condenses 1,560 hours of construction into two minutes. Read More

Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen says he's glad the embattled IRS official has been placed on administrative leave, calling her departure the right step as investigations continue into the agency's targeting of conservative groups. Read More

First Mark Sanford, now Anthony Weiner. In political rehabilitation after scandals, political makeup often reigns supreme. We've got a list of other comeback stories to watch in the next election cycle. Read More

As a first-time cheerleader when he moved to the West Coast last November, Nigel Hardy learned in a week what other athletes take months to perfect. Read More

Lois Lerner, the Director of Tax-Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service, now on administrative leave, took the 5th on Wednesday at a House hearing about the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups. Read More

The president evoked the suffering of detainees at Gitmo and the moral hazard of continuing to hold them----but didn't offer a real plan to close the prison or promise to end the practice of indefinite detention. Read More

A bill that designates school employees to act as armed school marshals on public campuses advances in Texas, while gun rights advocates file a lawsuit in federal court against Connecticut's new gun control law. Read More

The remarks come as Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday for the first time that the U.S. killed four Americans in drone strikes in Yemen in Pakistan, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Read More

The rate has fallen by half since the early 90s, and racial gaps are shrinking. Yet, American teens give birth at five to 10 times the rate of their peers in Scandinavia and Western Europe. Read More

A coalition of gun owners and gun rights groups are suing the governor of Connecticut and other state officials, contending that sweeping gun control laws passed in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school are unconstitutional. Read More

A bill that would institute a nation-wide on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy on Thursday went before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, which has no female members. Haven't we seen this before? Read More

Missing from the streets of New York City this week: A sea of men in uniform. The city's famed Fleet Week, scheduled to run May 23-30 this year, was canceled due to sequestration. Read More

Sen. Ted Cruz brought Republican Party infighting to the public stage on Wednesday, slamming his colleagues as untrustworthy on the matter of spending. Read More

Time has obtained exclusive photos of President Barack Obama at senior prom. And they definitely don't disappoint. Read More

First lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also made the Forbes list, which is comprised of 100 women from around the world. Read More

Oklahoma’s Sen. Tom Coburn believes any aid given to his state following the deadly and destructive tornadoes that devastated his home state must be offset by spending cuts. Read More

More than 1,300 activists and politicians signed a call to close the Guantanamo internment camp in an ad featured in Thursday's New York Times on the morning of the president's national security speech. Read More