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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, before the before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the OPM data breach. In the cyberattack targeting federal personnel records, hackers are believed to have obtained the Social Security numbers, birth dates, job actions and other private information on every federal employee and millions of former employees and contractors. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Katherine Archuleta director, Office of Personnel Management, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee's hearing on the Office of Personnel Management data breach, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. In the cyberattack targeting federal personnel records, hackers are believed to have obtained the Social Security numbers, birth dates, job actions and other private information on every federal employee and millions of former employees and contractors. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb talks with employees of the Rippey Wind Farm in Grand Junction, Iowa, during a tour on June 15, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is the latest of President Obama's aides to land a high-level corporate job. Mr. Gibbs was hired as "global communications officer" for fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the negative effects of raising the minimum wage by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 10, 2015, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Obama's health care law. Burwell said it will be up to Congress and the states to decide what to do should the Supreme Court annul federal subsidies that are a cornerstone of Obama's health care law. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Sarah Emma Edmonds – Known in the Union during the Civil War as “Franklin Flint Thompson,” Sarah passed herself off as a man in several battles during the Maryland Campaign of 1862, including the Battle of Manassas and the Battle of Antietam. In 1865, she wrote about her experiences in her bestselling book "Nurse and Spy in the Union Army."
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President Barack Obama speaks at the Catholic Hospital Association Conference about healthcare reform, Tuesday, June 9, 2015, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks to the Catholic Hospital Association Conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Obama declared that his 5-year-old health care law is firmly established as the "reality" of health care in America, even as he awaits a Supreme Court ruling that could undermine it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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The Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators chant during health care rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court could wipe away health insurance for millions of Americans when it resolves the latest high court fight over President Obama's health overhaul. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Many Zimbabweans turn their cars into makeshift secondhand clothing stores to beat unemployment, but reliance on Western providers leaves African industries struggling with slowed development. (Associated Press)
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flip-flop: Current, and former, California Gov. Jerry Brown faced bashlash when Prop 13 froze wages in 1978. He now seeks to overturn the landmark law.
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Americans are waiting for a Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Obama's health care overhaul that could halt insurance premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the marketplaces. (Associated Press)
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As workers watch from a staircase, former Sen. Rick Santorum announces he is entering the Republican presidential race in Cabot, Pennsylvania. He vowed to cut government spending and "revoke every executive order and regulation that costs American jobs." (Associated Press)
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Lilly Pulitzer has disavowed an employee's insensitive "fat-shaming" cartoons after photos of her office display at the retailer's headquarters went viral. (NYMag.com)
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State Department employee Michael C. Ford is charged with hacking into the computers of young women, stealing sexual photos, and then engaging in extortion. (Image: ABC News screenshot) ** FILE **
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Protestors call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage as McDonald's shareholders meet at the company's corporate headquarters, Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oak Brook, Ill. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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National Edition News cover for May 21, 2015 - Teamsters spend big on politics while preparing to cut pensions: Supporters for James Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, rally outside Bally's Hotel and Casino on the first day of the national union convention, Monday, June 27, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Teamsters President James P. Hoffa let UPS withdraw from the Teamsters Central States Health and Welfare Pension Fund in exchange for organizing workers at a new subsidiary, a move unsupported by the fund's executive committee. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
