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Tactics endure after 10 years of same-sex marriage 05/16/2014 11:50am • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Supporters and activists routinely ask gay couples to meet with reluctant lawmakers to put a human face on same-sex marriage. They file lawsuits. They use unexpected allies -- in some cases, churches -- to spread their message.It's a strategy that Watchdog: No proof treatment delays killed vets 05/16/2014 04:10am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- New complaints about long wait lists and falsified patient appointment reports have surfaced at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics across the country, the department's internal watchdog said Thursday, but he said there's no proof so far that delay Watchdog: No proof treatment delays killed vets 05/15/2014 08:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The internal watchdog at the Department of Veterans Affairs says new complaints about long wait lists and falsified patient appointment reports have surfaced at VA hospitals and clinics across the country. But Richard Griffin, the department's acting inspector general, says there' Chicago-area veterans hospital under scrutiny 05/15/2014 06:19pm • JASON KEYSER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- Federal investigators have visited a veterans hospital in suburban Chicago to look into an allegation that secret lists were used to conceal long patient wait times for appointments.Auditors from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Insp 10 years later, gay marriage tactics still in use 05/15/2014 05:04pm • DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Supporters and activists routinely ask gay couples to meet with reluctant lawmakers to put a human face on same-sex marriage. They file lawsuits. They use unexpected allies -- in some cases, churches -- to spread their message.It's a strategy that APNewsBreak: Obama aide to oversee VA review 05/15/2014 02:00pm • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is dispatching one of his closest White House advisers to oversee a review of the beleaguered Veterans Affairs Department as the agency grapples with allegations of treatment delays and preventable deaths at a Phoenix Secret lists, deaths: Claims roil Veterans Affairs 05/14/2014 09:44pm • BRIAN SKOLOFF Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) -- A team of federal investigators swept into Phoenix last month amid allegations of a disturbing cover-up at the veterans hospital.Their goal: to unravel the truth behind a secret waiting list supposedly maintained to hide lengthy delays for sick veterans Syrian official welcomes UN mediator's resignation 05/14/2014 04:02pm • ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A Syrian official on Wednesday welcomed the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria, calling for the appointment of a "more objective" mediator.Fayez Sayegh, a member of parliament and a senior member Panel to study at Agent Orange residue exposure 05/14/2014 03:20pm • CHAD GARLAND Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department has long resisted disability claims from service members who said chemical residue left in Vietnam War-era planes that were used to spray defoliants over Southeast Asia caused them severe illnesses, including cancer.Th Fed govt failed to inspect higher risk oil wells 05/14/2014 11:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage, congressional investigators say.The report, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, highlights substa For hospice nurse, wife's death was one too many 05/14/2014 02:40am • MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Everywhere Jay Westbrook turns, behind the wheel of his black pickup, a memory flashes.In Van Nuys, it is the lifeless little girl he held at Valley Presbyterian Hospital after she was found in the bottom of a hot tub. Near Beverly Hills, it is the Obama presents top medal to Afghanistan veteran 05/14/2014 01:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- It could have been over for Kyle J. White just 30 seconds into the Taliban ambush, when a rocket-propelled grenade knocked him unconscious.But he came to and by the time the four-hour firefight in Afghanistan was over, White, reeling from concussions and shrapnel in his face, had Lax psychiatric care alleged at St. Louis VA 05/13/2014 07:16pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The VA hospital in St. Louis is investigating claims by the former chief of psychiatry that veterans often wait a month or more for mental health treatment because psychiatrists and other staff members are so lax in their work.Dr. Jose Mathews claims in a federal whistleblower comp Talk of Hillary campaign forces out old issues 05/12/2014 03:36am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- For Hillary Rodham Clinton, the last few months might be comparable to a spring cleaning: An airing of her political past before she sets the course for her much speculated-about future.As the former secretary of state and first lady mulls a presidential campaign in 2016, reminder For Hillary Clinton, a re-airing of past episodes 05/12/2014 02:54am • KEN THOMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- For Hillary Rodham Clinton, the last few months might be comparable to a spring cleaning: An airing of her political past before she sets the course for her much speculated-about future.As the former secretary of state and first lady mulls a presidentia