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Obamacare still needs some fixes until it reaches what Unite Here calls its "full potential," and the union wants to make sure that those happen. (AP/Wayne Parry)

Union launches Obamacare accountability website

Kelly Cohen · September 2, 2014 2:19 pm

During the three-day trade mission, Chris Christie will give two keynote speeches, meet with the Mexican President Enrique PeÃ±a Nieto and shake hands with the CEOs of several top Mexican companies. (AP Photo/The Asbury Park Press, Tom Spader)

Chris Christie heads to Mexico

Kelly Cohen · September 2, 2014 2:06 pm

19 days after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Hillary Clinton speaks about the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. (courtesy CNN)

Clinton: ‘My heart just broke’

Kelly Cohen · August 28, 2014 8:35 pm

Rep. Paul Ryan, left, shakes hands with Todd Warton, right, of Miramar Beach, Fla., along with Warton's daughter Skye Warton, 15, during a book signing for Ryan's book "The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea." (AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Nick Tomecek)

Ryan ambushed by immigration activists

Kelly Cohen · August 28, 2014 7:24 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders stumped in North Carolina on Wednesday, the latest sign that his potential 2016 run for the Democratic presidential nomination will follow an unorthodox path. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)

Sen. Bernie Sanders continues his unorthodox 2016 campaign

Kelly Cohen · August 28, 2014 3:40 pm

In a guest editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Rand Paul argued that U.S. interventionist abetted the rise of ISIS, which the U.S. is now fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo)

Rand Paul argues U.S. actions led to rise of ISIS

Kelly Cohen · August 28, 2014 2:53 pm

Former Michele Bachmann campaign staffer pleads guilty

Former Michele Bachmann campaign staffer pleads guilty

Kelly Cohen · August 28, 2014 12:41 pm

Food stamp fraud is so widespread that Government Accounting Office investigators found dozens of examples merely by searching online e-commerce sites like Craigslist.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Online food stamp fraud growing, GAO reports

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2014 7:08 pm

The EPA's Office of Environmental Information spent $2.2 million for cloud computing services in 2011 in an attempt to reduce the agency's computing costs and speed up processing. (iStock)

Big contractors fail to deliver promised services, but EPA paid them anyway

Kelly Cohen · August 26, 2014 10:02 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor spent $100,000 promoting a book club. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wants to know more about it. (iStock)

Labor Department spends $100K on a book club

Kelly Cohen · August 26, 2014 6:03 pm

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Majorie Roxby Mascheroni, were sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to violate the Atomic Energy Act by "communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person believed to be a Venezuelan government official, and making false statements to the FBI," according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (AP Photos)

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Los Alamos worker sentenced for trying to pass U.S. nuclear secrets to Venezuela

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2014 10:00 am

Lianna "Lili" Ovsepian, of Tujunga, Calif., was sentenced Monday to eight years in federal prison for spearheading a scheme that involved more than $20 million using anti-psychotic drugs, the black market and repeated fraudulent billings of the government, according to the Department of Justice. (iStock)

$20 million California scheme billed Medicare over and over for the same prescription drugs

Kelly Cohen · August 19, 2014 10:18 pm