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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks after receiving the American Jewish Congress' lifetime achievement award on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in New York. Clinton spoke at the group’s gala and emphasized the longstanding relationship between the United States and Israel, and also spoke about the negotiations process with Iran. (AP Photo/Jin Lee)

American Jewish Congress lauds Hillary Clinton

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards speaks at the Baton Rouge Press Club, Monday, March 17, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards announced that he would join the race to represent the state's Baton Rouge-based 6th District of the U.S. House of Representatives. Edwards served two terms as governor in the 1970s. He was re-elected in 1983 and made another comeback for a fourth term in 1991. (AP Photo/Travis Spradling)

Former Gov. Edwin Edwards: ‘I did not do what I was charged with and convicted of’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, listens while testifying on Capitol Hill on Feb. 5, 2014, before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Obamacare. (Associated Press)

PIPES: The White House wants feds to bail out insurers if they lose money on Obamacare

By Sally C. Pipes

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Illinois Democrat, will be honored by the National Women's History Project later this month. Mrs. Duckworth is know as an advocate for veterans, particularly women and Native Americans. (Associated Press)

Group honors Tammy Duckworth for courage, advocacy, spirit

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Federal officials regularly using executive jets for everyday travel

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - This Feb. 6, 2014 file photo shows Abel Bautista and his wife Guadalupe posing with their four children at their home in Thornton, Colo. From left are, Kolby, 12, Wendy, 8, Guadalupe, 32, Able, 37, Kimbereli, 7, and Able, 10. Bautista and his wife entered the U.S. illegally decades ago, and have been fighting deportation ever since a traffic stop in September of 2012. Their next hearing is in October and Bautista is hoping for action from DC. Citizenship is far from his mind.“We’re just left dangling,” Bautista said. “It’s better for each person to have citizenship, but first stop the deportations, because it’s affecting so many families.” (AP Photo /Ed Andrieski, File)

Immigrant activists push to stop deportations

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

Rep. Donna Edwards to discuss environment

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Senators urge Obama to be tough with Iran

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Massachusetts moves to head off food stamps cuts

Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, speaks Jan. 24, 2013, during a news conference with a coalition of members of Congress, mayors, law enforcement officers, gun safety organizations and other groups on Capitol Hill in Washington to introduce legislation on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. (Associated Press)

Gun control groups turn to private sector to push crackdowns

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards says he’s running for seat in Congress.

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Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat, says the newest proposed unemployment benefits bill is a step in the right direction in getting people long out of the labor force back to work. (Associated Press)

Latest unemployment benefits bill fails to satisfy critics

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

File- This March 13, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listening on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing. In the aftermath of committee chairwoman Sen. Feinstein’s accusations that the CIA’s intimidating tactics and breaching of its constitutional authority for filing a criminal complaint against congressional aides, observers say the U.S. intelligence community and its congressional minders have committed serious missteps over the 13 years since the 9/11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former CIA probers urge new investigative panel

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this photo taken on Oct. 12, 2008, a U.S. Air Force U-2 plane takes off during an Air Power Day at the U.S. airbase in Osan, south of Seoul, South Korea. On Wednesday, June 3, 2009, an Air Force spokeswoman said that the United States is planning to retire its fabled U-2 spy planes from South Korea and replace them with unmanned drones. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

Pentagon proposes adding sensors to Global Hawk drone and phasing out U-2 spy plane

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan, center, and Reid Ribble, right, listen to moderator Mike Gousha during a panel discussion Monday, March 17, 2014, at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Ribble, a Republican from the Fox Valley, and Pocan, a Madison Democrat, belong to No Labels Problem Solvers, a bipartisan group of lawmakers who meet weekly to get to know each other and discuss issues. (AP Photo/M.L. Johnson)

Wisconsin Reps. Ribble, Pocan advocate compromise

By M.L. JOHNSON - Associated Press

Williama Bozeman was stunned was stunned when the government's central bank in 2017 went to war with him "out of nowhere" by filing a federal lawsuit and two challenges to his patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Associated Press/File)

BARSTOW: Inventors need protection from harmful patent reform

By David Barstow

Plaintiffs JoNell Evans (left) and Stacia Ireland walk together at the Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse March 12, 2014, in Salt Lake City. (Associated Press)

Officials in three states bank on states’ rights argument to stop gay marriage spread

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ECKERT: Keeping Americans in the dark on Benghazi

By Fred J. Eckert

FILE - This March 7, 2014 file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations headquarters. The National Archives makes public another 4,000 pages of documents from the Clinton White House on Friday, including previously unreleased records related to Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and the 2000 recount in Florida. The records have been highly anticipated as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton considers a 2016 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Clinton records: President feared 1994 losses

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. U.S. intelligence officials are planning an electronic monitoring system that would tap into government, financial and public databases to scan the behavior patterns of many of the 5 million government employees who hold secret clearances, according to current and former officials. The system draws on a Defense Department model in development for more than a decade, documents reviewed by the Associated Press show. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras)

GILMORE: Revisiting Snowden’s betrayal

By Jim Gilmore