Government News
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the Justice Department has closed without criminal charges an investigation into political fundraising activity at his former business.
March 31, 2022 -
A NASA astronaut is back on Earth after a yearlong, record-setting spaceflight
March 30, 2022 -
The Supreme Court is giving the Navy a freer hand determining what job assignments it gives to 35 sailors who sued after refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
March 25, 2022 -
A federal agency says it's running out of money to cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday
March 22, 2022 -
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