Federal Agencies
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Patel defends FBI's relaxing of employment standards concerning past bestiality, prostitution
Patel denied the change signaled a lower of employment standards and argued they were designed to protect victims who had been forced to engage in the conduct, which would have previously precluded them from consideration for employment.
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UN gave fraud findings to Maduro's government, not US investigators: federal watchdog
U.S. taxpayers funded aid that vanished, and the U.N. body meant to safeguard it handed its criminal findings to Nicolás Maduro's government while refusing to give American investigators the records.
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Illegal immigrant tax credit rule appropriate, says IRS chief
If finalized, the proposed rule would classify the refunded portions of four tax credits as federal public benefits under a law that generally prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving federal public benefits.
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Atlantic has had no hurricanes so far this season, setting satellite-era record
Setting aside years with late first hurricanes, only two years on record before weather satellites had no hurricanes at all: 1907 and 1914.
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After 9/11: How survivors continue to carry their stories
Time collapses for Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, 67, a native New Yorker and now a chaplain for the New York City Fire Department, as he looks back to Sept. 11, 2001, and the hours he spent at Ground Zero that day.
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Contractor says its faulty renovation plan and work caused the damage to the Reflecting Pool: Report
The contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan resulted in the pool’s new blue liner peeling and breaking loose.
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Department of Homeland Security deletes AI-generated image after backlash
The AI-generated post showed the "Transformers" character confronting a bearded man wearing a turban, and it included the message "Self-deport or find out" and told "Mr. Singh" to get off American roads because he did not "know how to drive."
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'Large bank' will be sanctioned as part of economic war strategy with Iran, Bessent says
The Treasury Department is waiting until Monday so as not to carry out the sanction on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Justice Department prosecutor diGenova abruptly resigns from leading 'grand conspiracy' probe
The prosecutor did not state why he was resigning, but said his wife attorney Victoria Toensing, who also worked with the team of federal prosecutors in Florida, will also be leaving the Justice Department on Friday.
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Kennedy slams Democratic Party: 'Democrats systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights'
Kennedy detailed how the party "systematically" took down the Bill of Rights and reflected on how the Democratic Party of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, is not the one seen in the country today.
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Trump admin proposes leaving illegal migrants, those in US temporarily from future census
The proposed changes would also eliminate the section of the questionnaire that seeks information on race or ethnicity, which has been included since the first census in 1790.
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St. Louis Sheriff's Office reaches settlement over firing of white, older employees
The EEOC is applying Title VII and the ADEA against a public employer accused of targeting white and older workers, a sign of how the agency's current leadership is redirecting civil rights enforcement toward claims that historically drew less federal attention.
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DHS and DOGE's $10.5B in projected savings from canceled contracts won't fully materialize, GAO says
The Government Accounting Office after reviewed over 17,000 agency-wide contracts found that DHS fully or partially terminated 438 contracts from Jan. 20 to Sept. 30, 2025.