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During a meeting yesterday to announce new requirements to preventive healthcare coverage, first lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius outlined how patients will soon be able to get many preventive medical services at no cost. The new rules are part …

The House voted 290-131 yesterday to approve the Telework Improvements Act, a legislation that allows federal employees to telework at least 20 percent of the hours worked in every two administrative workweeks. Under the bill, the Office of Personnel Management would develop a telework policy for all employees in federal …

The Pentagon announced yesterday defense and foreign ministers of the United States and South Korea plan to meet July 21 in the South Korean capital of Seoul to discuss military collaboration between the two nations. The meetings are scheduled to cover a wide range of security and alliance issues and …

The White House yesterday released a progress report on what concrete steps have been taken to make cyberspace a more secure place, highlighting identity authentication, a comprehensive cyber incident response plan, and new performance metrics introduced by the Federal Information Management Security Act. Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt yesterday hosted an …

While the rate of advancing technology has resulted in countless benefits for U.S. intelligence, it has also resulted in more sophisticated and dangerous threats to national safety. In order to keep up with these evolving threats, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has instituted new and innovative technologies in airports across …

Vice President Joe Biden appeared Wednesday morning in the White House to unveil the “Economic Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” fourth quarterly report. In his address, Biden assured the stimulus bill is leading the nation down the right path. “The economic initiatives that we took, …

First lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be speaking this afternoon at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., to make an announcement regarding the preventive healthcare coverage made available under the Affordable Care Act that was signed …

The active-duty services reported recruiting successes for June, a traditionally active month for recruiting, defense officials said yesterday. As a majority of recruits are recent high school graduates, the busiest recruiting months typically are May through September, said Cynthia Smith, a DoD spokeswoman. The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine …

Citizen inventors will now get a chance to participate in a technology-oriented competition sponsored by NASA to win $5 million. The space agency yesterday announced three new Centennial Challenges, which are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding. “NASA sponsors prize competitions because the …

NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that gives viewers a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet. Microsoft’s online virtual telescope explores the universe using images NASA spacecraft return from other worlds. Teams at NASA’s Ames Research Center in …