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Chuck Grassley

APNewsBreak: Grassley says VA lied about Iowa wait times

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is accusing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of lying about wait times for ...

Senate confirms Trump's pick for CIA's top lawyer

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to be the CIA's top lawyer. The bipartisan vote for Courtney ...

Needing troops, Army offers up to $90K bonuses to re-enlist

Struggling to expand its ranks, the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it's paying this year to more than $380 million, ...

Trump's spending plan targets cities' anti-terrorism funding

Cities are pushing back on the possibility of losing millions of dollars in U.S. anti-terrorism grants under President Donald ...

US contractor arrested after leak of Russia hacking report

A federal contractor has been arrested following the leak of a classified intelligence report that suggests Russian hackers ...

Report suggests Russia hackers breached voting software firm

Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year's presidential election, according ...

Donald Trump

Legal experts to Trump on travel ban: Twitter hurting cause

Memo from legal experts to President Donald Trump on resurrecting his stalled travel ban: Quit Twitter. Trump's 140-character ...

Congressional delegation tries to stop farmer's deportation

Hawaii's congressional delegation is urging U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to stop the deportation ...

Michael Flynn

Democrats press Trump nominee for answer on vetting of Flynn

Senate Democrats are pressing the businessman President Donald Trump nominated to be ambassador to Japan for answers about ...

The Latest: US colleges say programs in Qatar continue

The latest on the dispute between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors (all times local): 11:55 p.m. American universities say branch ...

Arab nations cut ties with Qatar in new Mideast crisis

Saudi Arabia and other Arab powers severed diplomatic ties Monday with Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich nation that ...

David Shulkin

VA sec'y: New system of electronic health records underway

The Department of Veterans Affairs will be overhauling its electronic health records, adopting a commercial product used by ...

US reassures Australia of continued close ties

In their first joint appearance abroad, America's top diplomat and its Pentagon chief offered public reassurances to a ...

Debt ceiling issue tops summer budget agenda for Congress

Even members of his own party were quick to declare President Donald Trump's budget plan dead on arrival in Congress last ...

Mattis: US and allies 'don't scare' in face of IS attacks

In their first joint appearance abroad, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday ...

James Comey

The Latest: Putin dismisses US claims about Trump, election

The Latest on President Donald Trump and the investigation into possible ties between his campaign and the Russian government ...

Susan Geissler

75 years after Midway, US Navy hero honored in NY hometown

C. Wade McClusky Jr. faced a tough decision on June 4, 1942: turn his low-on-fuel U.S. Navy air squadron around or keep ...

Jim Mattis

Pentagon chief turns up heat on North Korea and China

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis turned up the heat on North Korea and its main benefactor, China, on Saturday, calling the ...

Pakistan freezes accounts of 5,000 suspected militants

Pakistan has frozen the accounts of 5,000 suspected militants, taking about $3 million out of their pockets, but Islamabad ...

Jim Mattis

Mattis: North Korea a 'clear and present danger' to world

North Korea is accelerating its push to acquire a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States and other ...