'Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., asked Becerra repeatedly how many HHS employees are still working from home, but got nowhere. ..."Clearly, sir, you don’t want to answer that question, and I don’t mean to be rude, but you don’t, and that kind of begs that the answer may not be flattering," Cassidy said. ...'
'A release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not provide specific information about the nature of the deadly force, but the Pima County Sheriff’s Department says deputies responded to assist in a vehicle pursuit and officer-involved shooting. The incident happened in the Altar Valley near SR 286, milepost 20. It began as a pursuit and failure to yield of a suspected human smuggling vehicle, according to CBP....'
'Nearly 70 non-US citizens on the FBI’s terror watch list have been caught trying to illegally cross the country’s southern border since October. '
'...Federal authorities say Torres tried to open an airliner's emergency door and then tried to stab a flight attendant on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston on March 5. The case has directed attention to passengers with mental health challenges. ...In a video taken by a fellow passenger, Torres loudly threatens to kill people and promises a bloodbath before charging the front of the plane, where a group of passengers tackled him down to the ground to restrain him. He remains behind bars pending a mental health evaluation, with a judge ruling he "may presently be suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent."...'
'Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine says that gender-affirming care for minors has the 'highest support' of the Biden administration. Levine has promised that medically changing children's gender will soon be normalized...'
'SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is revising the interim regulation regarding the restoration of annual leave for employees who are essential to respond to certain national emergencies, such as the National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). This rule extends the latest possible termination date for the exigency established in connection with the COVID-19 national emergency, which would be March 13, 2023, under the current interim regulations. Under this new rule, that date would be the date the national emergency is ended by the President. This rule also provides for special handling of restored annual leave resulting from an agency-specific ongoing exigency that is directly related to a matter that was determined to be a national emergency exigency and that immediately follows that national emergency exigency. Finally, this rule expands an agency's authority to exempt employees from the advance annual leave scheduling requirement in the leave year during which a national emergency exigency is terminated.'
'...Crowd control measures were used when the group of mainly Venezuelan migrants continued to press forward, though according to sources at the border, the efforts were thwarted. ... President Biden again appealed for Republicans to pass parts of the bill, but lawmakers have balked at the inclusion of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, which Democrats have indicated is a must.'
' First Republic Bank shares plunged by about 60% in premarket trading on Monday even after the regional lender announced steps to shore up its balance sheet. Shares of other regional banks and financial firms are also stumbling. '
'...The Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act, which expands the Hatch Act, defines censorship as using influence or coercion to remove or suppress lawful speech from an interactive computer service. It also sees censorship as adding a disclaimer or other alerts to lawful speech expressed on an interactive computer service or restricting a person’s access to a publicly available interactive computer service...'
Snippet of Article: "...Walmart said they are closing the stores because they were not meeting financial expectations. “The decision to close these stores was made after a careful review of their overall performance,” a Walmart spokesperson said. “We consider many factors, including current and projected financial performance, location, population, customer needs, and the proximity of other nearby stores when making these difficult decisions. After we decide to move forward, our focus is on our associates and their transition, which is the case here.”..."
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'...For decades, those standards have said investment decisions must be guided by the goal of maximizing the return on those investments.>/b> However, the rule from Biden’s Labor Department said investment plan fiduciaries can consider companies that prioritize climate change and other social issues as they invest. ...'
'A DISA employee posted 12 partisan political Facebook messages while at work that were directed at the success or failure of political parties and/or candidates for partisan political office. The activity took place over a one-year period, between May 2020 and May 2021. The case settled for a three-day unpaid suspension. ...'
' Under open government transparency guidelines, information on public employees (including those employed by Federal, state, and municipal governments) is a matter of public record. FederalPay.org has created a powerful search tool that allows public access to the EHRI-SDM dataset, which contains records of most public employees of the United States' Federal Government. Information available through this dataset may include name, job title, duty station, and salary for most Federal civilian employees. Some individual's names have been withheld by the OPM or specific agencies for security reasons. While FederalPay attempts to provide this dataset as a public service, exactly as provided by the OPM, we cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the results provided. ...'
'Rep. Gerry Connolly, Democret-Va., on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that would standardize the annual increase in annuity payments that retired federal workers receive across the government’s two primary pension systems. The Equal COLA Act. ...'
'...bill to restore full Social Security benefits to certain federal employees is regaining steam in the House. Co-sponsor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia said hundreds of members from both parties are backing the bill, which didn't get a vote last year. The Social Security Fairness Act would end the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset...'
'EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the federal response to the toxic train derailment in East Palestine as a "betrayal" during a visit to the. ...'
