A 2012 audit accused Department of Veterans Affairs clinical offices in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas of routinely canceling appointments in blocks to manipulate wait times despite a nationwide directive from top VA officials “not to game the system.” According to the Arizona Republic, the disturbing audit also charged that VA employees at 3,400 clinics […]
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the new House majority leader, said Sunday the United States’ strategy for intervening in the Iraq crisis should be “everything is on the table,” including sending troops to stop the widespread sectarian violence threatening to take over that country. McCarthy, R-Calif., told “Fox News Sunday” that nobody in Washington says sending troops […]
The search for a missing 70-year-old outdoors writer who disappeared while hiking on Mt. Rainier has been suspended after a woman’s body was discovered Saturday, officials said. Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman Patti Wold told the Associated Press that the body had not been identified, but it was found at approximately 3 p.m. local time […]
The Obama administration has announced that it will work to process and deport illegal immigrants quicker, and that a new detention center for families crossing the border is to be opened. The Wall Street Journal reports that the facility, located on the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center’s Artesia, N.M., campus, will hold families while their deportation […]
A federal appeals court said this week that an atheist group trying to keep the so-called Ground Zero Cross out of the National September 11 Memorial Museum must better explain how displaying the artifact is “offensive” and violates members’ constitutional rights. The 17-foot-tall, steel beam “cross” was found in the rubble of the World Trade […]
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has left in place a court decision that said public high school graduations in a church adorned with religious symbols violated the separation of church and state. The justices’ action Monday comes more than a month after the court upheld Christian prayer at the start of town council meetings. READ MORE: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/16/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-over-graduations-in-church/