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When the Department of Health and Human Services approved a proposal allowing Arkansas to experiment with a âprivate optionâ for expanding Medicaid through President Obamaâs healthcare law, it was viewed as a possible model for other states. But a recent report by the Government Accountability Office could change this thinking. (iStock Image)

Healthcare

GAO report casts doubt on Arkansas as a role model

September 15, 2014 9:00 am

Food stamp fraud is so widespread that Government Accounting Office investigators found dozens of examples merely by searching online e-commerce sites like Craigslist.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Online food stamp fraud growing, GAO reports

Kelly Cohen -

August 27, 2014 7:08 pm

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl prepares to be interviewed by Army investigators earlier this month. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell)

National Security

Congress passes laws for reasons and Obama must obey them: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner -

August 23, 2014 9:26 pm

FILE - This August 2014 file photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl preparing to be interviewed by Army investigators. The attorney for Bergdahl, who was held as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years before his release, says the soldier wants to go to college once the investigation of how he was captured by the Taliban is finished. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

National Security

GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

Donna Cassata -

August 21, 2014 11:43 pm

President Obama announced May 31 that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his base and was captured in 2009, had been traded for the five Taliban leaders and was coming home. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)

Beltway Confidential

GAO: Obama administration broke the law in Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap

Charles Hoskinson -

August 21, 2014 9:34 pm

The report could have implications for the EPA proposal to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, which won't be finalized until June 2015. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

EPA must explain the costs of its rules better, federal watchdog says

Zack Colman -

August 11, 2014 9:15 pm

Many U.S. workers avoid dealing with the IRS whenever possible -- even when it comes to changing tax-withholding forms that could make their paychecks bigger. That may mean a refund windfall in the 2019 tax-filing season.

Politics

Why a program for the poor may be helping big banks instead

Susan Ferrechio -

August 11, 2014 7:29 pm

According to usdebtclock.org, which continually tracks such things, the total federal unfunded liability as this edition of the Morning Examiner is written is more than $118 trillion. That's more than $1 million for every taxpayer. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

If the government doesn’t know how much it spends or how much it owes, how can it know anything?

Mark Tapscott -

August 7, 2014 1:07 pm

What happened to $619 billion? Don’t ask the federal government

Kelly Cohen -

August 7, 2014 9:00 am

Pedestrians walk past a Citibank branch on Park Avenue in New York, in this Nov. 21, 2008 file photo. (AP Photo/Jin Lee, file)

Economy

Here’s what the much-anticipated GAO report on whether banks are ‘too big to fail’ found

Joseph Lawler -

July 31, 2014 6:20 pm

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