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State Recovers $15.3 Million in Fraudulent Unemployment Benefits

(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Tennessee's Department of Labor and Workforce Development has announced that $15.3 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits has been recovered from people throughout the state, since the start of the 2013 tax season.

The money was recovered via the Treasury Offset Program, which enables authorities to garnish IRS refunds and other federal payments, from those who coll ...Read More

US Says Four Americans Killed by Drones in Counterterror Strikes

Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Eric Holder has disclosed in a letter to Congress that four Americans were killed by U.S. drones in the course of the government's attacks on terrorists.

"Since 2009, the United States, in the conduct of U.S. counterterrorism operations against al Qaida and its associated force ...Read More

Obama Picks Former Campaign Official Katherine Archuleta as OPM Director

John Heller/WireImage(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama will nominate former campaign official Katherine Archuleta as director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Thursday, according to a White House official.

Archuleta served as national political director for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. She was the first Latina to serve in that role on a m ...Read More

Kerry Pushing Al-Assad to Find Peace in Syria

SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(AMMAN, Jordan) -- Secretary Of State John Kerry is sending a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: either find a peaceful solution to the two-year civil war or be prepared to deal with the international community boosting aid to the foes of his regime.

Speaking ahead of the 11-nation "Friends of Syria" confe

Bernanke Wants to Keep Fed's Stimulus Plan Going

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The head of the nation's central bank told D.C. lawmakers Wednesday that he's leaving well enough alone so as not to derail the slow but steady economic recovery.

Appearing before a congressional Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke declared that the economy is in better sha