Government News
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The U.S. Navy says a sailor has been charged with starting a fire last year that destroyed a warship docked off San Diego
July 29, 2021 -
South Korea is reporting a new daily high for coronavirus cases a day after authorities enforced stringent restrictions in areas outside the Seoul capital region seeking to slow a nationwide spread of infections
July 27, 2021 -
The White House is strongly considering requiring federal employees to show proof they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus, or otherwise submit to regular testing and wear a mask at all times regardless of the rate of transmission in their area
July 27, 2021 -
A former senior NASA employee who cheated the government out of nearly $275,000 in pandemic-related financial assistance has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
July 16, 2021 -
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Census Bureau has told a Senate committee that he'd bring transparency and independence to the nation’s largest statistical agency
July 15, 2021 -
The accord marks a major step in the party’s push to meet Biden’s goal of bolstering an economy that was ravaged by the pandemic and setting it on course for long-term growth.
July 14, 2021 -
President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping a doctor who served on the front lines of the nation’s opioid epidemic
July 13, 2021 -
A new study finds that female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third of all active duty Army women sexually assaulted in 2018
June 18, 2021 -
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he has fully reinstated one of two key advisory boards he dismantled earlier this year in a push for “scientific integrity” at the agency
June 18, 2021 -
President Joe Biden has signed legislation Thursday establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, saying he believes it will go down as one of the greatest honors he has as president
June 17, 2021 -
The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery
June 16, 2021 -
An Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen over the last decade
June 15, 2021 -
Former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall project would lose much of its funding as well as the fast-track status that enabled it to bypass environmental regulations under a new Biden administration plan
June 11, 2021 -
An Air Force base in San Antonio was placed on lockdown for about an hour after military officials said gunfire was reported near a gate to the base
June 09, 2021 -
An inspector general's report says an Arkansas veterans hospital's poor oversight caused it to miss the errors of a pathologist who was fired for being impaired on duty and later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter
June 02, 2021