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When its Mexico border apprehensions soared last year, Customs and Border Protection hired a contractor to build a temporary detention center. It could hold 2,500 detainees, but in reality, it never had more than a few dozen at a time.
April 22, 2020 -
New benefits and programs from the military seem to be helping troops and their families.
April 21, 2020 -
Recent forced departures of high profile inspectors general under controversial circumstances haven't sat well with whistleblower advocates.
April 21, 2020 -
It looks as if there is solid commitment on the part of the government to ensure contractor employees, who can't get on premises to do their work, to get paid leave.
April 21, 2020 -
When SCOTUS ruled in favor of VHA employee Noris Babb, in part, the court sorted out the age discrimination statute for federal employees.
April 21, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a supplies command center has been established by the Postal Service, to help its employees get masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and other coronavirus supplies.
April 21, 2020 -
Agency heads now have a detailed decision-making framework from the Trump administration, which describes how, consistent with local conditions, they should gradually begin to reopen federal offices and call their employees back from mandatory telework programs during the coronavirus pandemic.
April 20, 2020 -
Congress might be adjourned but members are still arguing over the size, scope and timing of a fourth coronavirus stimulus bill.
April 20, 2020