VA health care audit ... Student loan relief ... Gay weddings in Wisconsin

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Another audit of the Veterans Administration is out. And another grim picture has been painted of systemic problems with veterans getting timely appointments and treatment. The audit released today showed that more than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments. An additional 64,000 appear to have never gotten appointments after enrolling in the program.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is try to ease the debt burden on college graduates who find themselves entering the working world with a major financial handicap. Today, Obama signed a presidential order at the White House that allows borrowers to pay no more than 10 percent of their monthly income in student loan payments. The measure expands on a 2010 law that covered those who started borrowing after October 2007 and kept borrowing after October 2011.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gay couples have rushed to get married as more than half of the counties in Wisconsin began issuing licenses today. This comes in advance of an expected ruling placing a hold on a decision that the state's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb in Madison struck down the ban Friday in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging the prohibition.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in California have identified the wanted man who climbed onto rooftops in a San Fernando Valley neighborhood while armed with a rifle after a freeway chase today, and then barricaded himself in a home for several hours. A felony complaint for an arrest warrant says 41-year-old Nolan Perez was charged with seven felony counts including stalking and criminal threats against a woman believed to be his ex-girlfriend between May 19 and June 6.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico City say that a fight among inmates at a prison in the border city of Matamoros left at least eight prisoners injured, some of them seriously. State authorities said the injured had burns from a fire set by some of the inmates involved in the brawl. Authorities say state police officers and soldiers were sent in to stop the fight and put out the fire.