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While intruders routinely breach the security fences protecting runways and planes at U.S. airports, the federal Transportation Security Administration is not keeping up with the threat or doing enough to help airports identify their vulnerabilities, according to a government report released Tuesday. Congress asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to investigate how often people get past airport perimeter security, and whether the TSA could do more to help airports anticipate and prevent incidents.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has altered her campaign schedule for the next week, saying she will campaign exclusively in California, the largest of six states voting June 7. Clinton scrapped events planned for Thursday in New Jersey, where polls show her with a big lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Polls in the Golden State have shown a tightening race over the last two weeks, though most surveys still show Clinton with a slight lead there.
Jewish liberals are ready to sow a summer of Donald Trump discontent in ways that aim both to bludgeon and entertain. Bend the Arc, an advocacy group, is convening its first national conference here next week aimed in part at finding a strategy to keep the billionaire real estate magnate, who has secured the Republican nomination, from becoming president.
The Department of Energy Office of Inspector General has started a review of DOE's actions to address concerns about exposure to chemical vapors at the Hanford tank farms. Investigators met Tuesday with DOE Hanford officials to discuss the scope of the review and any matters Hanford officials wanted to discuss.
This May 18, 2016 file photo California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures during a community event in Sacramento, Calif. Brown is endorsing Hillary Clinton just a week before the state's June 7 primary.
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is pushing a bill she says is aimed at helping World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas. The Democrat says the military tested the effects of mustard gas and the blister agent lewisite on about 60,000 service members by the end of WWII.
The city of New York will be spending a total of $6.6 million over the next three years so that their employees can get in shape with Weight Watchers. Starting next month, about 300,000 city workers will be allowed to sign up with the weight loss program on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sen. Rob Portman parlayed his work to combat the prescription painkiller and heroin crisis into a series of campaign ads Tuesday, as he tries to stave off former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and win re-election in November. Congress is trying to catch up with a devastating opioids outbreak that is killing more people than car crashes do in some places, and Mr. Portman , Ohio Republican, has frequently touted his efforts to stem the tide.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - If the ship legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world is found at the bottom of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island will own it outright because of a legal maneuver it took nearly two decades ago based on an obscure, centuries-old maritime practice.
Ohio Sens. Rob Portman, left, and Sherrod Brown - seen together in January at the Martin Luther King Jr. ceremonies at the Columbus Convention Center - have developed a cordial relationship despite their partisan differences. WASHINGTON - You wouldn't think they like each other or have anything in common: the soft-spoken, button-down conservative Republican from Cincinnati who served as U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, and the gravel-voiced, rumpled Democrat from Cleveland who wrote a book called "The Myths of Free Trade."
After the political convention confetti is swept away, a more sobering tradition of the presidential election begins: The regular, top-secret intelligence briefings for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. Started by President Harry S. Truman, the briefings are designed to get the candidates, before they walk into the Oval Office, up to speed on problems around the globe.
No one is better at abusing power in D.C. than Newt - he'd be yet another reason America needs to reject Give Newt Gingrich credit for knowing how to play the long game. The congressional back-bencher spent years amassing power in the House of Representatives in order to position himself to take the Speaker's job when the moment was right - in his case, after the Republican Revolution of 1994.
A Lyft car that was trimmed with congressional plates that went viral on social media belongs to Rep. Elijah E. Cummings . A photo submitted to local Washington, D.C., blog Popville last week depicted a black Honda with a pink Lyft driver sticker on its window shield and the words "Maryland U.S. Congress 7-A" on its license plates.
If the ship legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world is found at the bottom of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island will own it outright because of a legal maneuver it took nearly two decades ago based on an obscure, centuries-old maritime practice.
One of the nation's largest multi-employer pension funds said that it is out of ideas for ways to save itself from an impending failure. After the Treasury Department rejected its Hail Mary proposal, which would have substantially cut benefits for some retirees, the Central States Pension Fund has little choice but to turn to a federal insurance program that is supposed to offer a lifeline to troubled pension funds.
Hillary Clinton took part in a Memorial Day parade with Bill Clinton and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, right, in Chappaqua, New York. WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is one of the best-known political figures in America.
"This was a negotiated settlement," said Senate President John Cullerton . "Compared to what we've done for the Downstate police and fire pension funds, which has resulted in 43 years of additional extensions to give them a forty-year cycle, this is simply saying that Chicago should have that same forty-year cycle."
San Pedro resident Sue McLeavy reflects at her father Korean War veteran Eldon Northrup's graveside, before she and her family attended the 31st annual “Green Hills Memorial Park Memorial Day Observance, " at Green Hills Memorial Park. Eldon who died in 2011, attended most of the observance's.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally at Ventura College on May 26, 2016 in Ventura, California. The California primary is June 7. Bernie Sanders meets with voters in California today, as that state and five other states prepare to vote next week.
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., India's largest drugmaker, said its U.S. unit received a grand jury subpoena from the Justice Department's antitrust division related to generic products and pricing. The summons also sought documents about communications with competitors and others regarding the sale of generic drugs, along with corporate and employee records, Sun Pharma said in a May 27 stock exchange filing.