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  • Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (center) listens as President Obama announces initiatives to support military families Monday. From right are: Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Mr. Gates, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Associated Press)

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    For people who just can't enough of the Internal Revenue Service, the federal tax collection agency is coming out with a new phone application.


  • HHS recovers over $4 billion in probes of fraud

    U.S. government efforts in health care fraud prevention and enforcement yielded more than $4 billion during fiscal 2010, the highest annual amount ever recovered from people who attempted to defraud seniors and taxpayers, and from those who sought payments to which they were not entitled.


  • Angelo Spata (center) leaves Brooklyn federal court after posting bail Thursday in New York. Mr. Spata, accused of being an associate of the Colombo crime family, was arrested Thursday in one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history. (Associated Press)

    FBI nabs 127 in 'largest' Mafia takedown

    More than 120 suspects were charged in what Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. called Thursday the "largest single-day operation" against the Mafia in U.S. history.


  • Illustration: Comcast cop by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    WALKER: FCC 'cop on the beat' more like a bully

    Julius Genachowski is the self-proclaimed "cop on the beat" at President Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC). That's great if the cop is as principled and honorable as Serpico. It's not so great if he's more like Mayberry's bossy, meddling, interfering Barney Fife.


  • Jones

    Justice Department to decide if GPS case moves to Supreme Court

    Five months after his drug conspiracy conviction was reversed, former D.C. nightclub owner Antoine Jones remains in prison as the Justice Department decides whether to ask the Supreme Court to review his case.


  • Jared Lee Loughner appears in an undated photo obtained from MySpace. (Associated Press)

    Federal grand jury indicts Ariz. shooting suspect

    A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the suspect in the deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.


  • The NBC logo glows in neon lights at its headquarters in New York. The Federal Communications Commission approved Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of NBC Universal on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)

    Comcast gets nod to take over NBC Universal

    Government regulators on Tuesday gave Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, clearance to take over NBC Universal in a deal that is certain to transform the entertainment industry landscape.


  • ** FILE ** Rielle Hunter (background left) holds a video camera as former Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, campaigns for president in Portsmouth, N.H., in December 2006. Ms. Hunter had an affair and an out-of-wedlock child with Mr. Edwards. (AP Photo)

    Edwards probe centers on campaign funds

    A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds of campaign-finance laws, people involved in the case have told the Associated Press.


  • ** FILE ** Andrew Young, a former aide to John Edwards, waits in a Chatham County courtroom in Pittsboro, N.C., for a Feb. 5, 2010, hearing over a videotape authored by Mr. Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter. (AP Photo)

    Grand jury probes what Edwards knew about spending

    A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate and former senator knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds of campaign finance laws, people involved in the case have told the Associated Press.


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