Government News
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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 -
Christine Wormuth has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate to be the first female secretary of the Army
May 27, 2021 -
The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick to run U.S. health insurance programs, putting in place a key player who’ll carry out his strategy for expanding affordable coverage and reining in prescription drug costs
May 25, 2021 -
CNN says the Trump administration Justice Department secretly obtained the 2017 phone records of a CNN correspondent
May 20, 2021 -
California’s Vandenberg Air Force Basehas been renamed as a U.S. Space Force Base
May 14, 2021 -
President Donald Trump's acting defense secretary during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots is defending his response to the attack
May 11, 2021 -
A former nursing assistant has been sentenced to seven consecutive terms of life in prison for injecting seven elderly veterans with fatal doses of insulin.
May 11, 2021 -
The nation’s top general says he is now open to considering a proposal to take decisions on sexual assault prosecution out of the hands of military commanders
May 03, 2021 -
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors
April 27, 2021 -
After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns
April 25, 2021 -
The Pentagon has swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and issued new rules that broaden their access to medical care and gender transition
March 31, 2021