Author: Joe Davidson

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A U.S. Forest Service firefighter was arrested when a “prescribed fire” used to prevent extreme burns jumped to private land in area where some are anti-government.

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Federal labor leaders and Democrats generally praise President Biden’s federal workforce policies, but they panned his planned 2 percent pay raise as a setback.

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Sen. Eric Schmitt(R-Mo.) is blocking an Air Force colonel’s promotion to general because his article challenged his colleagues to fight institutional racism.

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A blocked Trump White House order gutting federal job protections would have gone deeper into the workforce than previously estimated, new documents show.

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Federal reports, including three this month, document many problems in U.S. prisons, including with solitary confinement, violence and shoddy record keeping.

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The VA is seeking “definitive scientific evidence on the potential efficacy and safety of psychedelic compounds” like MDMA and psilocybin to treat PTSD.

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In a letter to President Biden, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said promises to create a welcoming agency culture “appear to have been hollow.”

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IRS taxpayer service has improved notably because of budget increases. Caller wait times were down to about three minutes in 2023, from 30 minutes in 2022.

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Shoddy practices by the White House Medical Unit during the Trump administration risked illicit use of narcotics and provided service to ineligible patients.