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• Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki also said VA facilities are enhancing capacity of their clinics so veterans can get care sooner. In cases where officials cannot expand capacity at VA centers, the Department of Veterans Affairs is "increasing the care we acquire in the community through non-VA care," Shinseki said.
• Lawmakers from both parties have pressed for this policy change as the VA confronts allegations about treatment delays and falsified records at VA centers nationwide.
• The department's inspector general says 26 VA facilities are under investigation, including the Phoenix VA hospital, where a former clinic director says as many as 40 veterans may have died while awaiting treatment.
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• ATLANTA (AP) -- Democratic candidates are trying to figure out whether to embrace or avoid President Barack Obama's health care overhaul -- or land somewhere in between.
• The president says his party shouldn't apologize or go on the defensive about the Affordable Care Act.
• Candidates aren't so sure.
• Two top recruits for Senate races -- Michelle Nunn in Georgia and Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky -- won't say how they would have voted when the Senate passed the bill in 2010. Their refusals are overshadowing their endorsements of individual parts of the law that are more popular than the law itself.
• In Montana, Sen. John Walsh, appointed to office in February and now running for a full term, reminds voters that he was nowhere near Congress in 2010.
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• BRUSSELS (AP) -- Three people were shot dead and a fourth seriously wounded in an armed attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday, officials said. Police detained one suspect and were looking for a second.
• The bloodshed, which came on the eve of national and European Parliament elections, led officials to immediately raise anti-terror measures.
• Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, who was in the vicinity, said the scene

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