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April of 2013. In response to that report we went back and looked at how we computed the wait times for veterans. If youre not a star systems. Podiatry. We change the performance measure from using the desired date. We switzer the creativity. Give us a much more valid measure. We started measuring veterans who were waiting longer routes of time thats ever tried to change that. Can you say that today . That is a failure . You guys did it at the intermediary level . We did not know at that point i...

Thank you, secretary kerry. And, of course, our gracious hosts today and over the next couple of days. I wish to acknowledge your contribution this morning. Thank you very much for that very inspiring statement. Excellencies, friends of the ocean, ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by greeting you, bringing the greetings from the people of my country young, old and on whose behalf im very honored to be here to address this conference. In my country we usually begin by conferring blessings on eac...

Think most americans have r an m idea of what the face of poverty is, what an individual in po poverty actually looks like and i think through these recent times people realize its ink affected everybody, rural, big cities, small communities, et cetera,le of b eve of every c. But today, as it stands, do any of you know, when it comes to wn the percent of people on public assistance, is the majority assn nonwhite minority or nonminority white. Does anybody know that figure . I dont know the figur...

Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include ...

An unusual milestone was reached Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral where crews reattached the head of a gargoyle statue that was damaged twelve years ago during a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the D.C. region.

This week in history: July 12, 2023

CRAIG BROWN: On Tuesday morning, Pipe Major Paul Burns (pictured), who played so beautifully at the late Queens funeral, woke our new King with 15 minutes of bagpipe music.

The Washington, D.C. region is marking 11 years since a magnitude 5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia rattled the east coast and caused significant damage to some of the most famous landmarks in the nation’s capital.

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Four Thousand Weeks, a totally original approach to self-help: success through failure, calm through embrac...

No faffing about: William Leith gets straight to the point. Ten seconds before my fathers death, reads the first sentence, I have a premonition...