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This undated handout photo provided by The Veterans Affairs Department, shows Sharon Helman, director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System. Helman was fired Monday, nearly seven months after she and two high-ranking officials were placed on administrative leave amid allegations that 40 veterans died while awaiting treatment at the hospital. Helman had led the Phoenix facility since February 2012. Best quality available. (AP Photo/Veterans Affairs Department)

VA fires Phoenix hospital director

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, who is on the disabled list after his hip surgery, talks to New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi during a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium in New York. Girardi won't know until March what to expect of Alex Rodriguez in 2015. Rodriguez was limited to 44 games in 2013 following hip surgery, then was suspended for all of this season for violations of baseball's drug agreement and labor contract. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Girardi not sure what to expect of A-Rod in 2015

By RONALD BLUM and BOB BAUM - Associated Press

Kevin Harvick drives out of turn four during the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Phoenix International Raceway, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014, in Avondale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso)

Kevin Harvick rolls to Phoenix win; Jeff Gordon out of Chase

By Jenna Fryer - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 photo, Municipal Court Judge Kevin Kane, right, marries same-sex couple Tim Palak, 44, left, and Jason Bannecker, 39, of Phoenix on a balcony at Phoenix's City Hall. In October 2014, U.S. District Judge John Sedwick last month struck down a 1996 state law and a 2008 voter-approved constitutional amendment that outlawed gay marriage. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Cheryl Evans)

Arizona resorts woo gay couples planning to wed

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Safe passage: An American doctor exposed to Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone disembarks a Gulfstream jet in a Tyvek protection suit in Maryland. (Associated Press)

CDC spends $5 million to use Ebola jet it helped develop

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

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(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

VA settles complaints by 3 Phoenix whistleblowers

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (42) walks to the bench after getting a cut above her eye during the first half of Game 2 of the WNBA basketball finals against the Chicago Sky, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Phoenix hopes to close out Chicago in WNBA Final

By DOUG FEINBERG - Associated Press

FILE - This photo taken April 28, 2014 shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Department of Veterans Affairs says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any deaths at a VA hospital in Phoenix, deflating an explosive allegation that helped expose a troubled health care system in which veterans waited months for appointments while employees falsified records to cover up the delays. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

VA’s ‘corrosive’ culture must be changed, senators say

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald has touted his early success in the department, including hiring 53 more staff in Phoenix, contacting almost 300,000 veterans to get them off wait lists and proposing disciplinary action for three senior executive service employees at the Phoenix facility. (Associated Press)

VA officials say employees ignored order to shape up

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A truck creates a wake as its driver tries to navigate a severely flooded street as heavy rains pour down Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, in Phoenix. Storms that flooded several Phoenix-area freeways and numerous local streets during the Monday morning commute set an all-time record for rainfall in Phoenix in a single day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Brewer declares state of emergency due to flooding

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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald told veterans at the American Legion conference that he would effect real cultural change and ensure every employee made veterans the top priority at the department. (Associated Press)

Intolerable problems interfered with care at Phoenix VA: audit

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 12, 2014, file photo, drivers race during a NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C. Darlington Raceway is quiet this Mother's Day weekend after nearly a decade as NASCAR's focal point for honoring mom. But raceway president Chip Wile was pleased with the track's recently run Southern 500 last month and is excited about what's ahead for the sport's oldest superspeedway. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn, File)

2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule includes Darlington on Labor Day weekend

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John Wall embraces fellow guard Bradley Beal after the Wizards beat the Celtics on April 2 to clinch the franchise's first playoff berth in six years. The pair celebrated an overtime victory in Game 2 of their first-round series against the Bulls (below). Washington clinched the series in five games. (associated press photographs)

Washington Wizards’ 2014-15 schedule released

By Todd Dybas - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by The Catholic Sun, date not known, the Rev. Kenneth Walker, left, and the Rev. Joseph Terra perform a Mass in Phoenix. Walker was killed and Terra was critically injured during a robbery attempt at Mother of Mercy Mission church on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/The Catholic Sun)

Arrest made in priest attacks at Phoenix church

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Ralph Bozella, right, chairman of the American Legion National Veterans Affairs &amp; Rehabilitation Commission, speaks with a military veteran as dozens of veterans showed up at a health care crisis center set up by the American Legion at the American Legion Post 1 hall, at a first-of-its-kind event for the nation's largest veterans group, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Phoenix. More than 57,000 new applicants have had to wait at least three months before their first appointments, while an additional 64,000 who enrolled for VA health care over the past decade have never been seen by a doctor, according to a VA audit released earlier this week. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Vets flood American Legion seeking help with care

By Emaun Kashfi - Associated Press

FILE-- In this Feb. 26, 2014, file photo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer appears at a press conference at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Irate about the federal government sending from Texas to Arizona immigrants who are in the country illegally, Arizona officials are rushing federal supplies to a holding center in the southern part of the state that's housing migrant children. Gov. Jan Brewer's spokesman, Andrew Wilder, said Friday June 6, 2014, that conditions at the holding center are so dire that federal officials have asked the state to immediately ship the medical supplies to the center in Nogales. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

Ariz. rushes supplies to warehouse of young illegal immigrants shipped from Texas

By Bob Christie and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

US President Barack Obama listens to speeches during the main celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of first partly free elections that led to the fall of communism, at the Zamkowy Square in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Obama came to Poland to meet regional leaders and attend ceremonies marking 25 years of Poland's democracy. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

GOP leaders ask Obama to care for all vets, not just those in Phoenix

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

At least 12 displaced by Phoenix apartment fire

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