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- OMB reworking financial systems to focus on outcomes, not inputs
- Lew taps government retiree pension fund to avoid default
- OMB taps VanRoekel to lead management team
- PHOTOS: Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal Finalists
- Hagel: Accountability breakdown was leading factor in sexual assaults
- Former IRS commissioner faces questions about Tea Party
- SBA starting new lending program for veterans
- New Apple devices cleared to join DoD IT networks
- Army prioritizes access to data in fight over intelligence IT system
- DoD upends slow approval process for mobile devices
- Senior execs' bonuses under fire at agencies
- Gould moves the needle on many of VA's toughest challenges
- Tuesday federal headlines - May 21, 2013
Federal report documents inmate sex abuse in US
Report: Indy, Baltimore, St. Louis, Philly jails have nation's highest inmate sex abuse rates
Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
Officials say broken rail of interest to investigators seeking cause of Conn. train collision
Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent
Boy Scout leaders from across US voting soon on whether openly gay boys should be able to join
Conn., NTSB officials to tour train crash site
Conn. governor, US senators to tour train crash site with Transportation Safety Board team
Pa. coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest
Pa. coffee run leads to arrest for famed hatchet-wielding hitchhiker wanted in NJ killing
NM mom: I followed instincts in chasing abductor
NM mom credits 'mother's instincts' in chase of 4-year-old daughter's abductor
NASA craft's planet-hunting days may be numbered
Future of planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft uncertain after malfunction; NASA trying to fix
Report: Feds' warnings about Sandy were confusing
Internal report on feds' Sandy forecasts: Clear in tracking its path, confusing on warnings
Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
Scientists finally get stem cells from cloned human embryos, possible step toward treatments
GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law
Republicans seek to link IRS scandal and tax agency's role implementing Obama health overhaul
INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
INFLUENCE GAME: Tech industry, big labor wrangle over high-tech jobs for foreigners
Tornado-ravaged Texas town to start recovery
Sheriff: Granbury residents can return to tornado-ravaged area Saturday to start recovery
SPIN METER: GOP raps Dems for IRS union cash
SPIN METER: House GOP raps Dems for taking IRS union cash, but Republicans took the money, too
Failing Ga. student accused of faking kidnapping
Ga. college student accused of faking kidnapping to avoid telling parents he was failing class
Feds: More time needed to indict Tsarnaev
Prosecutors: More time needed to indict Boston Marathon bombing suspect
NYers furious over photos taken through windows
Rear window? NYC residents livid over artist's photos taken through apartment windows
Navy pilot earns degree in combat zone
Finals week was dangerous for Navy pilot earning master's degree in Afghanistan war zone
OJ's ex-lawyer contradicts his testimony on guns
OJ Simpson's ex-lawyer contradicts former football star's testimony on guns, legal strategy
College student, intruder killed in NY break-in
Student, armed suspect killed in overnight house break-in near NY's Hofstra University
Conn. commuter trains collide; 60 go to hospitals
60 sent to hospitals as NYC commuter trains collide in Connecticut after 'major derailment'
2 new viruses could both spark global outbreaks
2 new diseases _ 1 related to SARS and 1 new bird flu _ could both spark global outbreaks
Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes
Idaho spud giant bets on biotech potatoes 12 years after similar Monsanto push failed
