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Partisan gridlock robs senators of feel-good laws 07/30/2014 12:38pm • CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The "Bipartisan Sportsmen's Act of 2014" seemed ideal for Sen. Kay Hagan's re-election bid in politically divided North Carolina, where many people like to hunt and fish. Her bill would open more federal lands to hunters, and conservation groups Billions of GI Bill funds go to for-profit schools 07/30/2014 10:29am • KIMBERLY HEFLING AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have flocked to for-profit colleges, including a troubled chain that is closing or selling its campuses amid a series of federal and state investigations.A report to be released Wednesday from the office of Sen. To Khmer Rouge tribunal clears way for genocide trial 07/30/2014 09:45am • ABBY SEIFF Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- A United Nations-assisted tribunal on Wednesday cleared the way to begin the genocide trial of two elderly former top leaders of Cambodia's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime.Survivors of the communist regime's reign of terror, along with students and B Obama eats ribs with 4 Kansas City letter writers 07/30/2014 03:38am • NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- President Barack Obama feasted on barbecue Tuesday with four people who wrote him letters in a trip to highlight the struggles of working families in American's heartland, as the clock ticked on pressing issues before Congress goes on summer br Senate confirms McDonald as VA secretary 07/30/2014 03:16am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald as the new Veterans Affairs secretary, with a mission to overhaul an agency beleaguered by long veterans' waits for health care and VA workers falsifying records t Khmer Rouge tribunal readies way for genocide case 07/30/2014 12:40am • ABBY SEIFF Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- A U.N.-backed tribunal on Wednesday began a hearing to prepare for the genocide trial of the two senior surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, under whose rule an estimated 1.7 million people died in the late 1970s from starvation, exhau Myanmar information and health ministers step down 07/29/2014 12:49pm • YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's ministers for information and health have been allowed to retire, state television reported Tuesday, in the country's second Cabinet reshuffle in two months.The evening news read a statement signed by President Thein Sein announcing the resignations of Information M Khmer Rouge tribunal to tackle genocide charges 07/29/2014 07:36am • ABBY SEIFF Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- The slow course of justice for the leaders of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime will inch forward again Wednesday, as a U.N.-backed tribunal holds an initial hearing against a pair of defendants in their 80s facing genocide and other cha Oil depot ablaze amid clashes in Libyan capital 07/29/2014 04:50am • MAAMOUN YOUSSEF Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- A fire at the oil depot for the airport in Libya's capital raged out of control Monday after being struck in the crossfire of warring militias battling for control of the airfield, the latest violence to plague the country as foreigners flee the chaos.L Deal to improve veterans' health care costs $17B 07/29/2014 03:16am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bipartisan deal announced Monday would authorize about $17 billion to help veterans avoid long waits for health care, hire more doctors and nurses to treat veterans and make it easier to fire executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs.An agree APNewsBreak: Tentative deal reached on VA reform 07/28/2014 04:02am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to fix a veterans' health program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records covering up delays.Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., a 10 things to know Monday 07/27/2014 11:17pm • WASHINGTON - Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: 1. JUDGE STRIKES DOWN DC GUN LAW The justice ruled that the District of Columbia's ban on carrying guns outside a person's home violates Second Amendment rights. 2. N. CALIF. CREW 10 Things to Know for Monday 07/27/2014 10:28pm • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:1. HAMAS, ISRAEL TRADE BLAME FOR SCUTTLING TRUCEThe failure to reach even a brief humanitarian lull in the fighting illustrated the difficulties in securing a more permanent APNewsBreak: Deal reached on legislation to improve veterans health care 07/27/2014 07:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- After weeks of partisan bickering in Congress, it appears a deal is set on legislation addressing the Veterans Department scandal that cost the agency's chief his job.The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to i Veterans' response to senator's PTSD remarks mixed 07/27/2014 04:44am • HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Sen. John Walsh since the Democrat linked a cribbed research project he wrote in 2007 to post-traumatic stress disorder.How those veteran voters respond means a lot to Walsh