By LISA HOFFMAN , Scripps Howard News Service

For more than a decade, House and Senate proponents of a National Women's History Museum have introduced legislation that would give backers permission to buy a federally owned building in Washington to serve as the site.
Each time, the bills have fallen short. But this year may be different.

Bad blood between the FBI and prominent U.S. Muslim groups is beginning to boil.

The global war on pirates appears to be succeeding, well, swimmingly.
Vice Adm. William Gortney, chief of the U.S. Central Command's naval forces plying the Indian Ocean off Somalia, has informed Congress that increased patrols by U.S., Chinese, Russian, European Union and NATO ships and aircraft appear to have curtailed pirate attacks on merchant vessels in the area.

Anti-Iraq-war groups, who helped propel Barack Obama into the White House, are now spraying him with friendly fire over his 2010 timetable to pull U.S. troops from Iraq and his decision to send 17,000 more to Afghanistan.

A shortage of veterinarians is putting America's national security at risk.

The escalating movement to keep Guantanamo Bay detainees out of America's back yards added lawmakers from three more states this week.