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UnitedHealth delays under Pentagon contract may hurt profits
The Pentagon will step in for the third time to combat medical-care delays under UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s $20.5 billion contract, as an analyst warned they risked hurting the company's earnings. The bottlenecks began after the nation's biggest health insurer took over the contract for coordinating medical services in April. The delays forced the Defense Department to temporarily ...
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Growing number think White House ordered IRS targeting poll says
The number of Americans who think the White House ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups is growing, a poll found. The CNN/ORC International survey, released Tuesday, found a majority of respondents think the controversy, related to enhanced IRS scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, is very important to the nation. The number of people ...
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Days Of Rambo Are Over Pentagon Details Womens Move To Combat
Women in the U.S. military will be integrated into front-line combat units by 2016, the Pentagon says. Here, female Marine recruits stand in formation during pugil stick training in boot camp earlier this year at Parris Island, ...
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VIDEO Several Teens Get Into a Fight On Metro
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A group of teens got into a fight on a Metro train and platform in Washington on Monday. The incident was all caught on tape at the Woodley Park Red Line Metro stop. The train operator called for Police who were on the scene within three minutes. They held the juveniles at the top of the escalator of the Metro stop for about five minutes but they were all released since ...
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Hagel Dedicates Pentagon Korean War Exhibit
By Terri Moon CronkAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today dedicated what he called a "magnificent" permanent display in the Pentagon to honor veterans of the Korean ...
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Flash Flooding Could Follow Heavy Rain
A more serious flash flood warning has been issued for parts of Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, Charles, Calvert, Orange, Greene and Madison counties, lasting until 4:30 or 5 ...
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Watch Biden Pushes White House Gun Control Priorities
Folks. It's good to see so many. So many faces I I'd hoped. We would have assembled. In this auditorium. Earlier. Although -- hope we were and a have assembled here. Couple months ago. Celebrating the first in the number of victories that we will have. In -- India. The congress. 44. Of our college it was a 45. Voted no. -- you rational simple straightforward. Extension of an existing ...
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Senior US General Encouraged by News of Taliban Talks
PENTAGON -- The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. representatives will open direct talks with Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, within the next few days, aimed at finding a political solution to the Afghan war. The announcement is being welcomed by the commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford. General Dunford said his forces had no ...
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Pentagon Announces Progress in Opening Jobs to Women
By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 18, 2013 The services and U.S. Special Operations Command have completed plans to gradually open jobs to female service members that used to be closed to them, senior Pentagon officials announced today. Joined by senior service officials at a Pentagon news conference, Juliet Beyler, the Defense Department's director of ...
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Anglers gearing up for Eastern Washington summer salmon-bound runs
Anglers are champing at the bit for summer-salmon season, and are also watching the sockeye move up the Columbia in our direction. If you look at the dam counts you will see that the summer-run salmon are starting to hit Bonneville Dam at over 2,000 a day. It won't be long before they start showing up in the upper Columbia and should be here in great numbers when the season opens on July ...
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Biden White House has not given up on gun control
By Michael O'Brien , Political Reporter, NBC News The Obama administration will not drop its pursuit of tougher gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday, warning lawmakers who opposed earlier gun legislation of political hell to pay."The country has changed," Biden, the administration’s point person on gun control, said at an event at the White House. "You will ...
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Sleepwalking into Washingtons future | Jon Talton
. At the time, it was the nation’s fifth-largest city but the economy was so limited that the people most looked to for progress were all on the taxpayers’ payroll. One would have to go far down a list of ';most important'; people in Seattle to find a public servant, such is the depth, strength and diversity of this business community. Public servants don’t matter, ...
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Josh Duggar Moving to Washington to Join FRC Action
The Duggar family is famously known for the 19 children born to Jim Bob and Michelle. The Arkansas family is featured on the hit reality TV show "19 Kids and Counting" on ...
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Pentagon to Send Women to Dangerous Missions
Washington, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Pentagon plans to send women to high risk combat missions aim at counteract a rise in sexual crimes en the United States (U.S.) Army. In the light of a special plan from de Defense Department, from 2015 women in the military can train and combat as Army Rangers, Delta Forces and even Navy SEALs. According to the entity, women will be deployed in special ...
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Suspicious Package Forced Evacuation Of CBS News Washington
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Tweets from CBS News' Steve Chaggaris said employees evacuated the CBS News Washington bureau after a suspicious package was found. Police said the suspicious package was a black bag left at the entrance to CBS. A CBS New York employee told us that CBS sent out an email calling it a bomb scare. Chaggaris says police closed M Street between 20 and 21st street. He ...
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The White House’s Renewed Push On Gun Safety Starts Today
Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks today launching a renewed push on gun violence prevention. Biden will emphasize the significant progress made on nearly two dozen executive orders issued by President Obama, while reiterating that there is absolutely no substitute for congressional action. ';Passing common-sense gun safety legislation, including expanding background checks and ...
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The NSA Leaker Benghazi and Washingtons Security Scandals
We seem to be in a perpetual "scandal a month" mode in Washington. Especially our foreign observers must be wondering whether there is something in the water making our politicians behave so strangely. Sure, the Europeans have scandals too, but rarely do we see a string of them there like we have had here of ...
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Pentagon wants more progress from UnitedHealthcare on $20.5B contract
UnitedHealth care Military & Veterans has had in administering a $20.5 billion contract that provides medical services to military members, retirees and their families. Delays in referrals to specialists led the government to step in and allow primary care doctors to send patients directly to specialists without a UnitedHealthcare review. The emergency measure has been in effect since ...
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Concern Over 2002 DC Protest Led To Deal With Navy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The D.C. police department arranged to use satellite communications and video equipment from the U.S. Navy as it prepared for a large 2002 demonstration. Documents turned over in an ongoing lawsuit shed new light on the arrangement between police and the Naval Research Laboratory. That deal was developed ahead of protests timed to coincide with the International Monetary Fund ...
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MacKay gives honourary degree to John McCain in Washington
Defence Minister Peter MacKay is in Washington Tuesday for talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (right.) The two counterparts are seen here at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Summit in Singapore last month. (Wong Maye-E/AP ...
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Cat shot with arrow in Anne Arundel is recovering
Anne Arundel County Animal Control officials are looking for help in finding who shot a cat with a 2-foot-long arrow in Davidsonville last week. The orange, long-haired cat, named Xena, had lived outdoors in the 3000 block of Riva Road. A woman who had sometimes fed Xena found her on Wednesday with an arrow poking through her shoulder, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department. ...
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Stock futures rising as Fed gathers in Washington
NEW YORK — U.S. stock futures rose for the second time in as many days as the Federal Reserve opens its two-day policy meeting in Washington. The government also reported Tuesday that the pace of construction increased again in May as builders tried to keep up with growing demand for houses. Dow Jones industrial futures rose 32 points to 15,153. The broader S&P futures tacked on 3.4 ...
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Man Badly Hurt in Fall Into Dupont Metro Station
Metro confirmed the man fell off the wall at the Q Street entrance of the station around 3:25 a.m. He fell onto the escalator and then down it, Metro ...
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Nervous White House insists Bernanke isnt necessarily done
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Joint Economic Committee May 22, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, ...
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Pentagons Women in Combat Plans Revealed
In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky., in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan. The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line ...
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