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An Army chaplain who saved the lives of fellow US soldiers before perishing in a North Korean prison camp has been awarded a posthumous US Medal of Honor.

On Thursday, President Obama presented the highest US military decoration to the nephew of Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest who died in the Korean War.
Kapaun, an Army captain, was renowned for his bravery and caring.

High-ranking officials at the federal government’s personnel agency steered business to one contractor in violation of procurement and ethics rules, misusing their positions and wasting taxpayer money, an inspector general investigation released Thursday found.

The officials circumvented competitive bidding at the Office of Personnel Management, directing a subcontractor to award at least three contracts to Stewart Liff, a human resources and management consultant, the report said. The government could have obtained the services for much less money through open competition, the report by Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland found.

Occupy Wall Street’s “People’s Library” settled a federal lawsuit Tuesday with the city over the destruction of 2,800 books during the police raid on Zuccotti Park in November 2011.

The city agreed to pay $232,000 — $47,000 to cover the costs of the books and $185,000 to civil rights attorney Norman Siegel, who brought the lawsuit last year.

The city also agreed to shell out another $133,000 to settle two other lawsuits growing out the raid, which evicted members of the protest movement from the park after a lengthy encampment.

It's been a long and arduous journey from Guatemala to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, but Mayra Ragon says the trip was well worth taking.

Ragon is among thousands of immigrants and their supporters gathering Wednesday at the Rally for Citizenship, a demonstration in support of proposals that could grant a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants.

Ragon, 30, and her husband Saul Lopez, 35, live and work in Maryland. Both are in the country illegally. Their daughter Camila, 3, sitting in a stroller in the shade, was born in the U.S. She is legal.

Unnecessary government programs are costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars annually, a new government study found.

The study, issued Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) following a three-year investigation, found 31 new areas of redundant or wasteful spending. Added to the findings of similar reports issued in 2011 and 2012, the study brings the total areas of duplicative spending to more than 160, according to the report, which also lays out scores of recommendations to counter the problem.

Parents of gay teens urged Texas lawmakers on Tuesday to give their children the same legal protection as heterosexuals when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes - pleas that helped push a key Senate committee to cast a vote bucking the state's long history of opposing the expansion of gay rights.

The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted to change Texas' "Romeo and Juliet" law that protects some heterosexual teens from being prosecuted for sex crimes and apply it to gay teens as well.