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Compare that with four years ago, when he told Arizona State's graduating class that it was leaving college in times of "extraordinary difficulty." When he spoke to Naval Academy graduates in 2009, he highlighted their choice to serve in a time of war.

I arrive back in America after a brief sojourn in Blighty to find Obama suddenly floundering.

Editor's Note: This is a cross post from the Administration for Children & Families blog of the Department of Health & Human Services .

The Arizona Democrat resigned from Congress in 2012, a year after a gunman shot her at close range while she was greeting constituents in her Tucson district.

Former Education Sec. Bill Bennett said the most important thing about a school was its ethos.

A culturally diverse group of middle school and high school students spent their spring break participating in job shadowing, a State of the Union challenge, a career and college fair, panel discussions with senior company leaders, a mock product marketing challenge and a community service project as part of the 2013 Multicultural Teen Corporate ... (more)

Back in February, President Barack Obama indicated in his State of the Union address that 3-D printing may be the next big thing in manufacturing.

The logo chosen for this year's Market Square Day is a celebration not just of the city, but also of the anticipation of the Memorial Bridge reopening in July.

The Obama Administration on May 9 announced that it is launching competitions to create three new manufacturing innovation institutes with a federal commitment of $200 million across five federal agencies: Defense, Energy, Commerce, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.

"Rather than thinking of this as a crisis, I think of this as an opportunity to come together," [John Boehner] said on CNN's "State of the Union," adding that he would not support tax increases as part of the deal On "Face the Nation," Boehner invited President Barack Obama to join him in tackling entitlement spending, alluding to the House GOP ... (more)

In 2004 the IRS investigated the tax-exempt status of the NAACP in response to demands by Republican lawmakers who questioned whether the NAACP's activities had crossed into political campaigning, which is prohibited to tax-exempt organizations.

White House press secretary was famous for mounting a strong defense of President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.

The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make - or don't make - ends meet.

The way the military has prosecuted sexual assaults within its ranks is deplorable, two congresswomen who have served in the armed forces said Sunday, calling for a new system for reporting those kinds of crimes.

Each of these proposals deserves a vote in Congress. If you want to vote no, that's your choice.

Attention, sane and insane scientists: Your experiments to create half-men, half-beasts may not be legal in every jurisdiction.

Burning mostly coal and some natural gas, Dickerson emitted about 1.5 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2011, akin to the pollution of about 275,000 cars.

The Maine senator also tells CNN that 'politics were clearly in play' in the Obama administration's handling of last September's attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

This March 22, 2013 file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington.