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Lawmaker: NFL players 'trying to back out' on HGH
Accusing the NFL players' union of "trying to back out" of an August 2011 agreement to start checking for human growth hormone, a congressman worried ...
Congress looks into science of HGH test for NFL
Nearly two full seasons since signing a labor deal that paved the way for HGH testing in the NFL, the league and the players' union still haven't ...
Post office reports record loss of $15.9B for year
The struggling U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported an annual loss of a record $15.9 billion and forecast more red ink in 2013, capping a ...
US officials: No delays in rescue effort in Libya
CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help during the attack on the U
DC leaders say Obama has done little for them
President Barack Obama carried the nation's capital in 2008 with 92 percent of the vote, and some local activists hoped he would push to give the ...
Justice seeks dismissal of Fast & Furious suit
The Justice Department says federal courts should stay out of a political dispute between the Obama administration and Congress over documents in a ...
Lindsey Graham alleges cover-up on Libya
A senior Republican senator on Sunday accused President Barack Obama's aides of deliberately covering up the details of the Sept. 11 attack in Libya ...
Republicans hammer State witnesses on Libya attack
Four weeks before the election, Republicans used a politically charged House hearing to confront State Department officials about security at the U.S.
US officials: We didn't link Libya attack to video
The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing ...
State Dept opens Benghazi consulate attack probe
Past investigations into attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions have blamed both the administration and Congress for failing to spend enough money to ...
House committee: Security requests denied in Libya
Despite two explosions and dozens of other security threats, U.S. officials in Washington turned down repeated pleas from American diplomats in Libya ...
US Postal Service to default on second $5B payment
The U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can't afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note ...
Republicans, IG take Justice Dept. to task
House Republicans eagerly joined the Justice Department's inspector general in taking the agency to task Thursday for its bungled gun-trafficking ...
Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operation
The Justice Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during ...
GOP: Show will go on in spite of storm's threat
Tuesday's brunch with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and House Speaker John Boehner has been moved indoors. Schedules were rearranged to ...
A word from Bernanke turns stocks around
The stock market keeps getting tossed around by the Fed. Stocks opened lower Friday but reversed course after a letter surfaced from Federal Reserve ...
Bernanke says there's room for Fed to act further
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke makes clear in a letter to a House lawmaker that he thinks the Fed can do more to bolster the economic recovery ...
House members' VIP loans excluded from subpoena
A Democratic committee chairman overrode his own subpoena three years ago in an investigation of former subprime mortgage lender Countrywide Financial ...
Justice Dept: Fast and Furious report distorted
The Justice Department said Tuesday that Republican lawmakers are engaging in distortions by asserting that Operation Fast and Furious arose from a ...
5 ATF officials singled out in GOP report
Five officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives share much of the blame for what went wrong with the Arizona gun-smuggling ...
GOP bill has major typo on jobless rate
A House Republican bill is designed to freeze major government regulations until the unemployment rate reaches 6 percent or below. An error in ...
Report: Countrywide won influence with discounts
The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy ...
AG says GOP using him as 'proxy' to attack Obama
Attorney General Eric Holder is charging that he's become a "proxy" for Republican attacks against President Barack Obama in an election year.
Justice won't prosecute Holder for contempt
The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation ...
Rush to report US health ruling trips up CNN, Fox
President Barack Obama worried and Republicans celebrated when they first heard the news. But not so fast: In the split-second rush to report the ...