Government News
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President Joe Biden marked Equal Pay Day by spotlighting new steps aimed at closing the gender pay gap for federal workers and contractors
March 15, 2022 -
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an investigation into a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its aging mail trucks with mostly gasoline-powered vehicles
March 14, 2022 -
In a story published March 10, 2022, about the 2020 census, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 70% of Native Americans live on reservations
March 11, 2022 -
The IRS is announcing plans to hire 10,000 new workers to help reduce a massive backlog that the Biden administration says will make this tax season the most challenging in history
March 10, 2022 -
President Joe Biden's requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 is awaiting judgment from a federal appeals court after arguments in New Orleans
March 08, 2022 -
The Defense Department says it will permanently close the Navy’s massive Hawaii fuel tank facility that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor’s tap water
March 07, 2022 -
The Peace Corps says it'll start sending volunteers overseas again in mid-March after it evacuated them from posts around the world two years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic
March 03, 2022 -
Native Hawaiians revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of a Hawaiian god
March 03, 2022 -
Dozens of U.S. Navy officials have admitted to being bought off by a gregarious, rotund Malaysian defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who plied them with prostitutes, Cuban cigars and free stays at the Philippines’ Shangri-La hotel among other things
March 02, 2022 -
The U.S. Treasury Department has concluded that more than 80% of the billions of dollars in federal rental assistance during the pandemic went to low-income tenants
February 25, 2022 -
Federal prison employees say they're being bullied and threatened for raising concerns about serious misconduct and claim it's indicative of widespread problems in the Bureau of Prisons
February 24, 2022 -
The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding Attorney General Merrick Garland take immediate action to reform the beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons
February 23, 2022 -
California’s Fort Ord has been on the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the most polluted places in the nation since 1990
February 23, 2022 -
Federal officials have come up with a list of potential replacement names for hundreds of geographic features in three dozen states that include the word “squaw.”
February 22, 2022 -
A federal appeals court has upheld a prison sentence of more than 13 years for a former Coast Guard officer accused of stockpiling weapons and plotting politically motivated killings inspired by a far-right mass murderer
February 22, 2022