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With the Capitol in the background, Army veteran David Dickerson of Oklahoma City, Okla., right, and Air Force veteran Linda Stanley, from San Diego, Calif., now with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), join others to place 1,892 flags representing veteran and service members who have died by suicide to date in 2014, Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the National Mall in Washington. The event also marked the introduction of The Suicide Prevention for America's Veterans Act by Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., which calls for greater access to mental health care. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) **FILE**

Veteran suicide investigation shows depression may run deeper than VA reports

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks during his meeting with elected officials, law enforcement officials and community and faith leaders in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House Complex in Washington on Dec. 1. Mr. Obama said that in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Missouri, he wants to make sure to build better trust between police and the communities they serve.(Associated Press)

Obama community policing effort falls short as funds mishandled, diverted

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Democrat. (Associated Press)

U.S. not fully prepared for nuclear terrorist attack

By Hope Yen - Associated Press

Crystal A. Diaz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent with the Tucson Sector in Arizona, rides her ATV while on patrol. (AP Photo/U.S. Border Patrol)

Golden Hammer: Homeland Security spends millions on overtime

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Homeland’s overtime money pit: DHS spends millions on unqualified overtime

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fining another federal agency up to $10,000 for each week it fails to start moving radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River at the most contaminated nuclear site in the U.S. The Tri-Party Agreement required the U.S. Department of Energy to begin removing sludge from a storage basin at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Hanford waste storage tanks continue to deteriorate

By Nicholas K. Geranios - Associated Press

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Pentagon bureaucracy cut to improve efficiency proves daunting

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2009, file photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The Washington Times reports that the IRS regularly lends — a nice way of saying "rents" — government workers to the National Treasury Employees Union. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: Government workers do unions business on taxpayer dime

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This photo taken Nov. 27, 2013, in Washington shows part of the HealthCare.gov website page featuring information about the SHOP Marketplace. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obamacare’s small-business enrollment slow: Government auditors

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Jonathan Gruber’s payday

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, is taking to task those veterans who are abusing the government benefits system. He said veterans' benefit programs need to be streamlined to avoid duplicate payments. (Associated Press)

Veterans caught triple-dipping on benefits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner has been at the center of a scandal involving her erased hard drive and missing emails. (Associated Press)

Feds pay thousands of workers to stay home on ‘administrative leave’: study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

GAO questions fitness of USIS

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, voters cast their ballots for Illinois' primary at an early voting polling location in Chicago. Illinois Republicans are mounting what they say is an unprecedented and costly campaign to identify and eliminate ineligible voters and recruit their own election judges before the November vote. With their sights on unseating a Democratic governor and winning back several congressional seats, Republicans have allocated $1 million in Cook County alone to examine voter rolls and recruit 5,000 GOP election judges to watch over polling places in Democrat-heavy Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)

Photo ID laws do hurt voter turnout: study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 22, 2014 photo, two people are handcuffed together as they start to play a game at Escape the Quest in Miami Beach, Fla. Escape the Quest offers two games; Apartment 101 and Prison Escape, where groups of two to four have an hour to solve a puzzle and win their freedom. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Obamacare opens door for inmates to get taxpayer-funded Medicaid: study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, photo shows part of the HealthCare,gov website in Washington. Nonpartisan congressional investigators say the website has significant security weaknesses that could put Americans' personal information at risk. The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday, Sept. 16, that the Obama administration must resolve more than 20 specific security issues related to who can get into the online system, who can make changes in it and what to do in case the complex network fails.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

White House took unnecessary security risks with Obamacare website: GAO

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A chart showing the average premium cost and tax credit data for people who enrolled in the Washington state healthcare exchange is shown at an event Wednesday, April 23, 2014 in Seattle to highlight the success of the Washington state healthcare exchange in getting hundreds of thousands of people into new health coverage, including about 450,000 who obtained new Medicaid coverage. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Obama admin. pushes back at report on abortion and Obamacare as GOP outcry rises

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obamacare plans in 5 states cover abortion in potential violation of law

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on the broken promise not to fund abortion through Obamacare by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

SMITH: Obamacare’s big spending on abortion on demand

By Chris Smith