Government News
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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 -
A watchdog report finds that a former Navy civilian auditor sexually harassed at least a dozen female employees for more than two decades as part of a pervasive pattern of misconduct and retaliation
March 24, 2021 -
Army leaders are kicking out the requirement that soldiers do at least one leg tuck as part of the new physical fitness test.
March 22, 2021 -
The new head of the Small Business Administration says she expects to make changes at the agency that she says will enable it to further help small companies devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic
March 22, 2021 -
Without opposition, the Senate has confirmed veteran diplomat William Burns as CIA director
March 18, 2021 -
The Senate has confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as President Joe Biden's health secretary
March 18, 2021