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  • During the execution of a search warrant, members of the Joint Federal Haz-Mat Team, FBI, and local law enforcement gather in front of the Osmun Apartments near the intersection of First Avenue and Oak Street in Browne's Addition on Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Spokane, Wash. The search warrant is in connection with ricin-laced letters intercepted at a Post Office facility in Spokane earlier in the week. (Associated Press)

    FBI makes arrest in Wash. ricin letter scare case

    The FBI says a 37-year-old man has been arrested following last week's discovery in Washington state of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

  • The Washington Times

    NAPOLITANO: Punching holes in the 4th Amendment

    Here we go again. The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us.

  • ** FILE ** In this July 19, 2009, file photo, Lance Armstrong crosses the finish line during the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Verbier, Switzerland. Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during a taped interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, reversing more than a decade of denial. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)

    Lance Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched,' Justice Dept. says

    The federal government is going after Lance Armstrong's money. As much as it can get.

  • Inside the Beltway: Mitt Romney in seven words

    Ann Romney told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that her husband "would have been a fabulous president."

  • Spotify's Top 10 most viral tracks

    The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Monday, Feb. 11, to Sunday, Feb. 17, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.

  • "We cannot put our head in the sand and say, 'Let's hope this problem goes away.' Hope is not a strategy," said U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. (Associated Press)

    Postal chief expects fight on Saturday delivery halt

    U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe's historic decision to end Saturday mail delivery drew mixed reaction on Capitol Hill — and outright anger from the letter carriers union, which called for his resignation.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Healthy Postal Service up to Congress

    Your editorial "Delivering debt" (Jan. 3), about the long-term funding of health benefits of postal retirees, suggests that the Postal Service sought to "hide this mound of debt" and seeks to "push off" this problem to another day. The opposite is true.

  • Illustration: Broken Post Office

    EDITORIAL: The mailman vs. FedEx

    The Postal Service is coming to grips with its diminished relevance in a digital society. The question is whether Congress will follow suit.

  • **FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, announces July 31, 2012, to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington that he and GOP House Speaker John Boehner have reached an agreement to keep the government running on autopilot for six months when the current budget year ends on Sept. 30. (Associated Press)

    Unproductive Congress skips town until November

    The most partisan, least productive Congress in memory has skipped out of Washington so lawmakers can make their case for voters to re-elect them.

  • Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

    Postal Service reports $5.2B loss in 3rd quarter

    The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported losses of $57 million per day in the last quarter and warned it will miss another payment due to the U.S. Treasury, just one week after its first-ever default on a payment for future retiree health benefits.

  • Sherman Hemsley of TV's "The Jeffersons" dies

    Sherman Hemsley, the actor who made the irascible, bigoted George Jefferson of "The Jeffersons" one of television's most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility, has died. He was 74.

  • The American flag flying at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner," but the war itself inspired little else. (Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of American History)

    The War of 1812 at 200: All it wants is a little respect

    Currently enjoying its bicentennial, the War of 1812 occupies a musty, forgotten junk drawer in America's collective cultural consciousness, stuffed somewhere between the liberation of Grenada and the time Will Smith punched that extraterrestrial fighter pilot in the face.

  • Russian Internet CEO launches robotics fund in NYC

    The co-founder of a large Russian Internet company wants to invest in the types of robotics envisioned in "The Jetsons" _ that 1960s cartoon portraying a family from the future, with flying cars, robot maids and all sorts of push-button inventions.

  • Deputy Attorney General James Cole. (Associated Press)

    Justice honors five for efforts to rescue missing children

    Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole paid tribute Wednesday to five persons during a National Missing Children's Day ceremony at the Justice Department, presenting awards to a special agent, a detective, a 30-year veteran of the Postal Service, a prosecutor and a fifth-grader for their efforts in recovering and rescuing missing children.

  • President Obama speaks at the State University of New York's Nano-Tech complex in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Daily Gazette, Patrick Dodson)

    Obama denies presiding over 'bloated government'

    After presiding over three consecutive years of trillion-dollar deficits, President Obama told an audience in New York on Tuesday not to believe critics who accuse him of running a "bloated government."

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