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File - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay back its billions in debt to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable. The Treasury Department said in a notification Tuesday that it does not plan to renew the license to allow Russia to keep paying its debtholders through American banks. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File) — Russia_Ukraine_War_Bonds_83772

Federal Newscast

Yellen memo calls for IRS modernization to help ID tax evasion schemes perpetrated by top earners

Also in today's Federal Newscast, GAO recommends the military services clear up their tattoo policies.

Federal Newscast

IG says 'inconsistent' Pentagon policy on active shooters could make things worse

Workforce

Survey: What are your thoughts on return-to-office plans?

Federal Newscast

Exposed to COVID-19 on the job? New website lets you join class-action lawsuit for hazard pay

Veterans Affairs

What Lies Beneath: Vets worry polluted base made them ill

Defense

Biden signs order making sexual harassment a punishable offense in military

Workforce

How OSHA has dealt with the workload it got handed by the pandemic

Moscow - Sep 12, 2021: Vaccinated young woman showing COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card, healthy person in mask after getting corona virus vaccine. Coronavirus vaccine shot and immunization mandate.

Federal Newscast

Legal challenge to vaccine mandate for private employers fast-tracked in court

FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a Blue Dot Network Discussion at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Ministerial Council Meeting, Oct. 5, 2021, in Paris. The State Department on Friday, Nov. 5, named a new coordinator for its investigation into cases of so-called Havana Syndrome, responding to increased pressure from lawmakers to investigate and respond to hundreds of brain injuries reported by diplomats and intelligence officers. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

Workforce

State Dept. names new coordinator on 'Havana Syndrome' cases

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks as FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Federal Newscast

Senator looking into potential pay abuse at ATF

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine outside Silverton, Colo. The Gold King and other mines in the area are now part of a Superfund cleanup project. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday, June 14, 2018, it plans to take a series of interim cleanup steps at some of the sites while it searches for a longer-term solution. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Congress

Legal expert says 'bad idea' to remediate PFAS contamination using EPA's Superfund system

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2021 file photo, a syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. President Joe Biden has directed OSHA to write a rule requiring employers with at least 100 workers to force employees to get vaccinated or produce weekly test results showing they are virus free.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Workforce

Small agency, big job: Biden tasks OSHA with vaccine mandate

Lt. Col. Glenn Cameron, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron commander, participates in a test-virtual reality program meant to replace the suicidal awareness computer-based training Feb. 18, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, California. The suicidal prevention training is being tested at Scott and Travis AFBs and is the only training across the Department of Defense of its kind. (U.S. Air Force photo by Nicholas Pilch)

Air Force

Air Force uses new tech to make sexual assault training more interactive

Cary Russell, GAO

Defense

123 service members killed in training vehicle accidents over 10 years, GAO review says

Bob Tobias, professor at the Key Executive Leadership program of American University

Workforce

Returning to the office, it's about a lot more than the office or the building

PHILIPPINE SEA (June 8, 2019) The amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force amphibious transport dock ship JS Kunisaki (LST 4003) sail in formation during a training exercise with other U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force warships. Ashland is underway conducting routine operations as part of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda/Released)190608-N-WI365-1036

Navy

Watchdog: Ex-Navy auditor sexually harassed female workers

Lloyd Austin

DoD Reporter's Notebook

DoD stands up 90 day commission on sexual assault, with several interim steps

Congress

Office that oversees congressional employee rights having a busier new year than normal

Nathan Anderson, GAO

Agency Oversight

Federal chemical safety and security programs have a communication, overlap problem

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Workforce

Exclusive Security, COVID, politics make feds question workplace safety

Soldiers in initial military training at Fort Jackson, S. C., line up to eat, May 11, 2020. (Victoria Evans)

Army

Forthcoming Army plan seeks to 'transform' organic industrial base

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2019, file photo, National Nuclear Security Administration administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty talks about her agency's work to reduce global nuclear threats during a business conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty will visit New Mexico Thursday, July 16, 2020 as part of a nationwide tour of the federal government's nuclear security operations. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Workforce

NNSA leader traveling to all sites to get situation report

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at Federal Triangle in Washington D.C.

Workforce

EPA employees fear phase three reopening, declare ‘no confidence’ in agency safety efforts