This week brings new data about the housing market and durable goods orders. The minutes of the last Federal Reserve meeting are also released, which could provide more insight into policymakers’ outlook for the economy.

Naomi Weintraub took her two-hour precalculus final exam at Montgomery Blair High School with great expectations. The 10th-grader had studied, completed her review packet and earned A’s in both quarters. But her grade on the January exam: D.

Banks have paid less than half the $5.7 billion in cash owed to troubled homeowners under nearly 30 settlements brokered by the government since 2008, delaying help to the millions of victims of discrimination and shoddy lending that epitomized the housing crisis, according to a Washington Post analysis of government data.

The military that ran Burma for decades will continue to play a major role in the country, the former Burmese general who has presided over the transformation of a nation that only three years ago was considered one of the world’s most repressive said Sunday.

In early 2010, an Internal Revenue Service team in Cincinnati began noticing a stream of applications from groups with ­political-sounding names, setting in motion a dragnet aimed at separating legitimate tax-exempt groups from those working to get candidates elected.

When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.

Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as long as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dan Malloy warned Sunday.

Up to one in five American youngsters — about 7 million to 12 million, by one estimate — experience a mental health disorder each year, according to a new report billed as the first comprehensive look at the mental health status of children in the country.

Caleb Cantres-Maldonado was all of 6 weeks old and just stirring from a nap when his mother propped him up and pointed him in the direction of a picture book.

“Look what I have! See the book?” said Milenka St. Clair, a family support worker who visits Caleb’s Manassas home once a week. “It’s a drum! What else do you see?”

I'm not a Trekkie. I barely know my phaser from my tricorder. Merely by using Spock's and Kirk's names in vain, I'm sure that I'm treading on sacred ground. Try to overlook my sacrilege when I admit that the Trek universe doesn't interest me much. But the opening of J J. Abrams' second Trekisode this past weekend interests me as a reminder that his first stab at the franchise, in 2009, taught us more about religion than The Ten Commandments, The Passion of the Christ, and Sister Act, combined.

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday that the question of whether any laws were broken as part of the IRS scandal is “irrelevant” to the fact that the agency’s actions were wrong and unjustifiable.

The Dr. Kermit Gosnell saga has come to a close, but the debate surrounding the case is far from over. The disturbing murder trial has reignited a culture war, putting pro-choice forces on the defensive.

After five years, Arlington-based defense contractor CACI International and four plaintiffs who allege abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are awaiting a judge’s decision that could dismiss the case.

Albert Lewis sounded like a basketball coach cheering on his team before the big game.

“We are!” Lewis shouted.

“All in!” the youngsters yelled back in unison.

“We are!” he said.

I am on a leafy street in McLean on a breezy May morning, trying to make sense of the business oddity unfolding before me.

Here is veteran Washington restaurateur Craig Merrills (the man behind Madhatter and Cedar) standing on a front lawn directing a small army of painters crawling over a four-bedroom colonial.

There’s nothing more important in a career than having integrity. You have to be willing to lose your job over it.

I did.

I started my career in public accounting.

It made sense.

As a child I thought I would build bridges or skyscrapers because I was very analytical. But looking back I realize I’ve been building all along, only with people instead of bricks and mortar.

These firms recently filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s local court clerk’s offices.

Under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code, a company is protected from claims by creditors while it attempts to reorganize its finances under a plan approved by the court.

Abt Associates of Bethesda appointed Jeffrey Lubell director of housing initiatives.

Context Partners of the District appointed Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy managing director.

CrossCountry Consulting of Vienna appointed Paul Joseph Warwick director in its risk management regulatory and internal controls group.

With hurricane season less than two weeks away and a very active season predicted by meteorologists, thoughts are on what happened last year, when a tropical cyclone named Sandy raced north from the Caribbean, hung a sharp left off the Mid-Atlantic coast and smashed into New Jersey and New York, killing 147 people, flooding some of the most valuable real estate in the United States and causing tens of billions in damage.

Relatively mundane city-management issues, from parking to water use, are going high-tech as cities seek to use analytics and information to improve their operations.

Companies are pushing this kind of work, arguing that it can improve city services and operations while in many cases lowering costs or even producing new revenue.

After Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, “The case is submitted,” on March 27, the justices of the Supreme Court presumably took a private vote and now are at work writing the opinions that will decide the fate of same-sex marriage in the United States.

Amid a trio of controversies that has put the White House on defense, Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the President Obama, appeared on all five Sunday news shows, defending the administration against attacks from Republicans.

John Edwards was right. There are two Americas.

In one America, the events of the past 10 days have exposed the true colors of President Obama and his administration. From edited talking points about the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, to the secret seizure of phone records of Associated Press reporters to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, a single message has emerged: This is the inevitable result of government run amok.

President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility for their families and their communities.

Is is time to kiss America's most famous school reformer goodbye? Larry Cuban thinks so -- and below he explains why. Cuban was high school social studies teacher for 14 years, a district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, VA), and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for more than 20 years. His new book is "Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education." This post appeared on his blog.