Roughly a third of employees at federal offices gave their department a score of “D” or worse in 2023, according to a newly released analysis of the best and worst places to work in the federal government. On Monday, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service released findings on employee morale at 532 federal agencies […]
President Joe Biden‘s administration is endorsing the Senate’s move to take up a bipartisan border security agreement, despite the fact the legislation isn’t likely to pass. “From his first day in office, President Biden has called on Congress to fix our broken immigration system. That’s why he introduced a comprehensive immigration reform plan on day […]
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Monday called on President Joe Biden to replace Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg amid toxic workplace culture allegations at the agency. The move was a departure from Brown’s Democratic colleagues but comes as he battles for reelection in a competitive race and has increasingly distanced […]
ATLANTA — Primary day looms large in the Peach State as Georgia boasts half a dozen races with statewide and even national implications. As he seems to with everything in politics these days, former President Donald Trump looms large in the elections, with his endorsements tilting the balance of one race and not one but […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted the right to challenge his extradition to the United States, significantly improving his legal position. Assange has been held by U.K. authorities since 2019 after Ecuador ended his seven-year asylum stay in its Embassy in London over an unrelated rape case in Sweden, which was later dropped. U.K. police […]
House Democrats reported a record-breaking fundraising haul in April, giving them an advantage over their GOP counterparts as their focus turns to the November election and control of the lower chamber is once again up for grabs. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $12.4 million last month, marking the committee’s best April fundraising numbers in […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed dead after his helicopter crashed in bad weather, raising uncertainties about the future of Iran. Also aboard the flight was Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province, and five others, according to Iranian state media IRNA. The crash marks the latest in a series of […]
Israeli officials on Monday denied suggestions they were behind the deaths of two of Iran’s most prominent political leaders who died in a helicopter crash over the weekend — but added they wouldn’t “shed a tear” for the losses. “For us, it does not matter,” said Member of the Israeli Knesset Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of […]
A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its gun background check rule in the Lone Star State on Sunday evening, one day before the national measure took effect. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, granted a temporary injunction against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and […]
President Joe Biden’s administration’s efforts to infuse campus workers with cash to help with get-out-the-vote efforts might have been illegal. Several lawyers are warning that the Department of Education’s decision to pay students to register voters with funds earmarked for work-study programs for students who work part-time on-campus jobs could be against the law. The […]
