Government News
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Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara announced they were leaving the organization as Trump ally and conservative filmmaker Michael Pack takes over leadership of the agency that oversees VOA.
June 15, 2020 -
A former public affairs officer for the Drug Enforcement Administration pleaded guilty Thursday to pretending to be an undercover CIA operative to persuade companies seeking business with the agency to give him millions of dollars.
June 12, 2020 -
The nation's top military officer is adding to the already extraordinary tension between the Pentagon and President Donald Trump
June 11, 2020 -
Vice President Mike Pence took the unusual step of presiding over the vote, something he usually does to break ties. But Brown’s confirmation, 98-0, was not close. Pence called the moment “historic.”
June 09, 2020 -
Yet another former military leader, retired Marine Corps four-star general John Allen, is criticizing President Donald Trump's response to the protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
June 04, 2020 -
The Pentagon's No. 2 inspector general has resigned
May 26, 2020 -
The FBI says a shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead is being investigated as “terrorism-related.”
May 21, 2020 -
A sharply divided Senate has confirmed John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence
May 21, 2020 -
The U.S. Census Bureau is restarting some work in the field for the 2020 census on a limited basis after field operations were shut down for a month and a half because of the pandemic
May 04, 2020 -
The top Navy officer has recommended that Capt. Brett Crozier be returned to his ship
April 25, 2020 -
The acting Navy secretary, Thomas Modly, has resigned after having upbraided the former captain of the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt
April 07, 2020 -
President Trump has removed the inspector general tapped to chair a special oversight board of the $2.2 trillion economic package intended to help businesses and individuals.
April 07, 2020 -
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is defending the firing of a Navy captain who sought help for sailors on his aircraft carrier amid a growing coronavirus outbreak as a case of holding leaders “accountable.”
April 05, 2020 -
President Donald Trump is suggesting that he fired the inspector general for the intelligence community in retaliation for impeachment, saying the official was wrong to provide an anonymous whistleblower complaint to Congress as the law requires
April 05, 2020 -
The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing coronavirus outbreak has been fired
April 03, 2020