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| 13.05.2025 | As student loan default rate spikes, some borrowers face ‘grave consequences,’ New York Fed says | The delinquency rate for student loan balances spiked after a nearly five-year pause due to the pandemic, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Now, millions of borrowers face steep declines in their credit st... |
| 06.05.2025 | Newark's Air Traffic Control Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Aviation Safety | A recent incident at Newark Liberty International Airport has sent shockwaves through the aviation industry. On April 28, air traffic controllers lost radar and radio communication for nearly 90 seconds. This brief blackout left controllers... |
| 06.05.2025 | Newark Radar Failure Left Controllers Blind for 90 Seconds | (Bloomberg) -- Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days, according to... |
| 03.05.2025 | Economic Anxiety: A Storm Cloud Over American Households | The American economy is a paradox. On one hand, job growth is steady. Unemployment rates hover near historic lows. On the other hand, a dark cloud of economic anxiety looms over households. Despite positive indicators, many Americans feel t... |
| 02.05.2025 | GAO Investigations Coincide With White House Budget Authority Push The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched multiple investigations at a time when the White House is actively seeking to... | The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has launched multiple investigations at a time when the White House is actively seeking to strengthen its control over federal budget processes. This development marks a significant moment in the o... |
| 23.04.2025 | The Resumption of Involuntary Collections: A Wake-Up Call for Student Loan Borrowers | The U.S. Department of Education is sounding the alarm. After a long pause, involuntary collections on defaulted federal student loans are set to resume on May 5, 2025. This decision affects millions of borrowers, many of whom have been in ... |
| 23.04.2025 | The Return of Student Loan Collections: A Wake-Up Call for Borrowers | The U.S. Department of Education is turning the tide on student loan collections. After a long pause, the Office of Federal Student Aid will resume involuntary collections on May 5, 2025. This decision impacts millions of borrowers who have... |
| 22.04.2025 | What student loan borrowers need to know about ‘involuntary collections’ | In an op-ed Monday, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon explained the Education Department’s decision to resume “involuntary collections” of federal student loans that are in default.
Within weeks, borrowers should contact the government’s... |
| 21.04.2025 | Education Department to resume ‘involuntary collections’ of defaulted student loans | The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that its Office of Federal Student Aid will resume “involuntary collections” on May 5 for federal student loans that are in default.
More than 5 million borrowers are currently in default, a... |
| 21.04.2025 | FDA budget cut proposal puts states in charge of routine food inspections | Listen to the article 6 min
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A draft budget document shows the Trump administration’s plan to slash funding to the Department of Health and Human Services includes substa... |
| 16.04.2025 | Public health risks of urban wildfire smoke prompt push for more monitoring | While Air Quality Index values are a good starting place for knowing what’s in the air, they don’t provide a full picture of pollutants, especially during disasters, said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA. In ... |
| 15.04.2025 | DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that the government already found years ago | Chavez-DeRemer’s recounting of the alleged fraud, including claims of benefits filed by unborn children, drew laughter in the Cabinet room and a reaction from Trump himself.
“Those numbers are really bad,” he said.
But Chavez-DeRemer needn’... |
| 10.04.2025 | The Keystone Pipeline Spill: A Ripple Effect on Environment and Economy | The Keystone Pipeline, a massive artery for crude oil, has once again become a source of concern. A recent spill in North Dakota has unleashed a torrent of questions about safety, environmental impact, and economic repercussions. The pipeli... |
| 10.04.2025 | Will Trump move Space Command from Colorado again? State’s Republicans are “not waiting to make our case.” | President Donald Trump in January nominated former air crewman and space expert Troy Meink to lead the Air Force. He hasn’t been confirmed to the post yet.
But Colorado’s Republicans were hopeful that no move would happen.
“I’ve asked many ... |
| 09.04.2025 | Cleanup underway of the Keystone oil pipeline spill in North Dakota | The spill is not a minor one, said Paul Blackburn, a policy analyst with Bold Alliance, an environmental and landowners group that fought the pipeline’s extension, called Keystone XL.
The estimated volume of 3,500 barrels, or 147,000 gallon... |
| 07.04.2025 | Ecology, Safeway, and Washington State University partner to feed cougs well | PULLMAN –
Washington wastes more than 295,000 tons of edible food each year, but new partnerships in the state’s food system are providing avenues to rescue waste-bound edible food and divert it to feed hungry people. Perhaps surprisingly, ... |
| 05.04.2025 | The Medicaid Tightrope: Balancing Cuts and Care for America's Seniors | In the complex world of healthcare, Medicaid stands as a lifeline for millions. It’s the safety net that catches those who fall through the cracks of Medicare and private insurance. Yet, as political winds shift, this vital program faces th... |
| 05.04.2025 | The Battle for Data Sovereignty: Indigenous Tribes Demand Access to Health Information | In the vast landscape of American healthcare, a silent struggle rages. Indigenous tribes, long marginalized and overlooked, are fighting for a seat at the data table. Their battle is not just about numbers; it’s about identity, health, and ... |
| 04.04.2025 | Climate disasters are on the rise. These states want to make oil companies pay | “Climate Superfund is the ‘it girl’ policy of the [2025] session,” said Ava Gallo, climate and energy program manager with the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, a forum for state lawmakers. “There’s a lot of popularity in the id... |
| 04.04.2025 | Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty | The reasons vary, from systemic issues within the health care system to mistaken assumptions by some federal officials about what data be securely sent to tribes without risking privacy violations.
The lack of tribe-specific data has hinder... |
| 01.04.2025 | The federal government is phasing out paper checks. Here’s who will be affected | Over the next six months, all federal departments and agencies will phase out the use of paper checks and switch to electronic payments, according to the White House.
As the U.S. accelerates toward a “check zero” world, here’s how you may b... |
| 31.03.2025 | The Canadian Exodus: A Looming Crisis for U.S. Tourism | The landscape of travel is shifting. Canadians, once eager to cross the border into the United States, are now pulling back. This trend threatens to deepen the United States’ staggering $50 billion travel deficit. The implications are profo... |
| 29.03.2025 | Why it’s so hard to fix the U.S. air traffic control problems | The U.S. has had a shortage of air traffic controllers for years.
Air traffic controller staffing “is at an all-time low,” said Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, their union.
In an interview with C... |
| 28.03.2025 | IRS crime fighting arm announces modernization program as financial crimes use more tech | The agency found $21.1 billion in fraud tied to tax and financial crimes from 2022 to 2024, seized $8.2 billion in assets tied to criminal activity in the same period, and recouped $1.4 billion in restitution for crime victims, according to... |
| 26.03.2025 | The Social Security Squeeze: A Looming Crisis for Millions | Social Security is the safety net for millions of Americans. It’s the lifeline that keeps food on the table and roofs over heads. But this vital program is under siege. Proposed cuts and systemic changes threaten to unravel the very fabric ... |
| 26.03.2025 | Editorial: Kneecapping Social Security could mean misery for millions | Another 21 are expected to be closed. As for applying online, internet service is not an option in parts of the U.S.
Even if an applicant somehow gets an office visit, the wait could become even more excruciatingly long: 7,000 Social Securi... |
| 25.03.2025 | Fired federal workers face choices now that a judge wants them rehired | Although it is unknown how many federal workers are taking up the offers to return to work, some employees have already decided to move on, fearing more reductions down the road.
Others who were asked to return were immediately put on admin... |
| 17.03.2025 | What VCs Need To Know About SBIR Acquisitions | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By David Timm
Startups often catch the eye of venture capital investors after they land Small Business Innovation Research funding from America’s Seed Fund. But before jumping into a deal, both found... |
| 14.03.2025 | Business | Is Public Service Loan Forgiveness going away? Understanding Trump’s executive order | What does the PSLF Executive Order do?
The executive order directs Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon to create a proposal limiting PSLF eligibility. In a Mar. 10 post on social media network X, the Education Department wrote, “th... |
| 13.03.2025 | What Trump’s Department of Education dismantle means for the future of AI in schools | To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec
The U.S. education ecosystem is actively seeking ways to counteract diminished federal support through avenues like technology and, more specifically, artificial inte... |
| 10.03.2025 | Farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze | Farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze
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| 06.03.2025 | Alito “Stunned” By Court Exercising Judicial Power He Championed & Expanded Just Months Ago | Here’s a puzzle: When does a Supreme Court justice believe courts can review executive branch decisions? The answer, at least for Justice Alito, appears to be “whenever a Democrat is president, but only then.”
There is plenty of commentary ... |
| 05.03.2025 | The Supreme Court confronts a national headache: What to do with the growing pile of nuclear waste | Where is spent nuclear fuel stored now?
Roughly 100,000 tons (90,000 metric tons) of spent fuel, some of it dating from the 1980s, is piling up at current and former nuclear plant sites nationwide and growing by more than 2,000 tons (1,800 ... |
| 01.03.2025 | The DOGE Dividend: A Bold Proposal or a Risky Gamble? | In a landscape marked by economic uncertainty, the idea of sending $5,000 DOGE dividend checks to American households has emerged as a bold proposal. This initiative, championed by former President Donald Trump and tech mogul Elon Musk, aim... |
| 28.02.2025 | Black woman who retired at 30: Financial independence is ‘not just for white guys’ | In 2020, Purple left her corporate job to retire early at just 30 years old.
The blogger, who goes by Purple online and in the media to maintain her privacy, has been traveling the world and chronicling her FIRE journey, which stands for fi... |
| 28.02.2025 | National Politics | Opioid cash grab: As federal funding dries up, states turn to settlement money | Not only is the river of federal pandemic relief that flowed to public health, education, food assistance, child care, and more over the past few years drying up, but a deluge of actions from the Trump administration has thrown into questio... |
| 27.02.2025 | Federal job cuts disrupt a stable retirement picture for many workers, including Black Americans | Black American workers made up just under 20% of the federal workforce in 2021, higher than the group’s share of employment as a whole, according to a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Other groups with relatively high rep... |
| 21.02.2025 | The Profit Motive Behind Immigration Detention: A Deep Dive into Local Government Incentives | In the intricate web of U.S. immigration policy, local governments are playing a pivotal role. They are not just enforcers of federal law; they are also profit-seekers. The interplay between local jails and Immigration and Customs Enforceme... |
| 21.02.2025 | National Politics | ‘Perverse’ incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump’s migrant detention | Cell room doors are seen at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, on August 13, 2018. (SAUL LOEB // AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s plans will require building a massive nationwide infrastructure, including centers to de... |
| 05.02.2025 | Bridging the Gap: Health Care Innovations for Native Americans and New Birth Center Laws in Florida | In the vast landscape of American health care, two recent developments stand out like beacons of hope. One is a program aimed at closing insurance gaps for Native Americans in Nevada. The other is a new law in Florida that allows cesarean s... |
| 04.02.2025 | Health | New Florida law allowing C-sections outside hospitals could be national model | Traditional birth centers are typically staffed by midwives who provide maternity care for low-risk pregnancies and births. Twenty-nine such centers operate in Florida, and about 400 are licensed around the country. The focus in these cente... |
| 01.02.2025 | US restricts helicopter flights after Washington crash, 'black boxes' recovered | WASHINGTON: US authorities restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport on Friday (Jan 31), after a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter killed 67 people.
Investigato... |
| 01.02.2025 | US restricts helicopter flights after Washington crash, 41 bodies recovered | WASHINGTON: US authorities restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport on Friday (Jan 31), after a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter killed 67 people.
Investigato... |
| 30.01.2025 | Telehealth Partnerships: A Value-Added Service for Providers | Lindsay Dymowski Constantino, President — Centennial Pharmacy Services
Today’s healthcare consumers have high expectations regarding their patient experience. They want care to be more convenient, accessible, and affordable.
For providers l... |
| 29.01.2025 | Politics | Trump’s now-blocked federal spending freeze sends Colorado officials scrambling, with billions at stake | In a statement earlier Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Jared Polis said the federal funding pause “hurts children and hardworking families, jeopardizes American jobs and businesses, harms hospitals and safety net health providers, threatens road an... |
| 24.01.2025 | Petitioning against DARPA | Share
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| 21.01.2025 | These Alternative Food Coloring Startups Are Set To Win Big With FDA’s Ban on Red Dye No. 3 | 6 Mins Read The US Food and Drug Administration has banned Red Dye No. 3 after it was found to cause cancer in rats – a positive move for food safety, and alternative food coloring brands.
Candy corn, gummy bears, cough syrups and vegan bac... |
| 21.01.2025 | What the Inauguration Means for Your Taxes In his first term, President Trump accomplished one of the most significant overhauls to the tax code in decades with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). ... | "Nothing is certain except death and taxes."
This proverb, often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, has stood the test of time. But if I could add one more piece to this pearl of wisdom, it would be this: "Nothing is certain ex... |
| 18.01.2025 | Attorney General Bonta Files Brief in Support of Mexico’s Efforts to Hold Gun Manufacturers Accountable and Protect Our Communities | OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 17 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting the Mexican government’s lawsuit against gun manufacturers to hold them a... |
| 15.01.2025 | Health | Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity | To people in the amputee community, the coverage disparity amounts to discrimination.
“Insurance covers a knee replacement if it’s covered with skin, but if it’s covered with plastic, it’s not going to cover it,” said Jeffrey Cain, a family... |
| 24.12.2024 | AG Ferguson nets $10M more through his innovative unemployment fraud recovery initiative | More than $52M collected so far from banks that accepted stolen funds
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today Metropolitan Commercial Bank will pay $10 million to Washington state as part of his innovative fraud recovery pro... |
| 23.12.2024 | Why Online Study Options Are Important in Healthcare | Created by Carl Williams
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| 12.12.2024 | The High Cost of Healthcare Dysfunction: Misaligned Incentives and Data Chaos | Sufian Chowdhury, co-founder and CEO of Kinetik
Healthcare has historically been slow to adopt new or innovative technology, even as its inherent complexity frustrates providers and patients and its inefficiencies fuel public distrust. Heal... |
| 21.11.2024 | Книга: «Прозрачное программное обеспечение: Безопасность цепочек поставок ПО» | Привет, Хаброжители!
Мы живем во времена, когда программное обеспечение затрагивает все аспекты нашего общества. Оно применяется повсюду, начиная с критических инфраструктур и цифровой коммерции и заканчивая национальной безопасностью. Тем ... |
| 18.11.2024 | 'Essential Piece of the Puzzle': Why Nuclear Energy Is Crucial for AI, According to the CEO of a $700 Million Startup In an exclusive interview, the CEO explained the upsides and downsides of Big Tech... | Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other big tech companies are turning to nuclear power to fuel AI, which needs more energy as it grows more complex. Last month, Amazon invested $500 million in nuclear energy, and Google signed its first nuclea... |
| 16.11.2024 | GAO finds private insurance market became increasingly concentrated last decade | The Department of Health and Human Services' Government Accountability Office Nov. 14 released a report that determined the private health insurance market became increasingly concentrated from 2011-2022. GAO considered a market concentrate... |
| 16.11.2024 | Commentary: Elon Musk’s efficiency department is highly inefficient | WASHINGTON DC: After spending US$118 million of his personal wealth on the campaign to re-elect Donald Trump as United States president, billionaire Elon Musk has been tapped to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency in the new admi... |
| 14.11.2024 | Modification trips up ManTech’s protest over Army award | The Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest by ManTech International because the Army task order in question was not valuable enough to qualify for GAO's jurisdiction.
Task orders need to be worth more than $25 million. This... |
| 29.10.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Supporting workers with disabilities benefits us all | Taking these steps is not only not a burden on employers, but can actually increase productivity. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, companies that embrace disability inclusion had 1.6 times more revenue, 2.6 times more net income a... |
| 24.10.2024 | DOMA Technologies Welcomes Paul Brubaker as Chief Mission Officer to Drive Strategic Insight into Federal Health Systems | As Chief Mission Officer, Paul Brubaker will oversee the development and execution of mission-aligned strategies that not only fulfill the goals of federal health agencies but also contribute to the improvement of health outcomes across the... |
| 23.10.2024 | The Highs and Lows of Black Cod | This blog was written by Michele Conrad, advisor to Ocean Conservancy on achieving priority fish conservation and ecosystem goals on the West Coast. As a former state ocean policy manager, Michele represented the State of Washington on the ... |
| 20.10.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Jennifer Selin: Why FEMA’s disaster relief gets political − especially when hurricane season and election season collide
By Jennifer Selin | By Jennifer Selin
Rumors and lies about government responses to natural disasters are not new. Politics, misinformation and blame-shifting have long surrounded government response efforts.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in 2017, for exam... |
| 17.10.2024 | The Biden administration has now canceled loans for more than 1 million public workers | The GAO faulted the Education Department for failing to make the rules clear.
The program was the subject of legal and political battles, with Democrats in Congress calling on the Trump administration to loosen the rules and uphold the spir... |
| 02.10.2024 | ODNI told to redo financial management contract | The Government Accountability Office has told the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to re-evaluate proposals for a contract to provide financial advisory services across the intelligence community.
ODNI awarded the contract to... |
| 25.09.2024 | Maximus weighs next steps after CMS bid protest decision | The now-public version of the Government Accountability Office's decision involving a dispute between Maximus and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services does not end their impasse.
In fact, Maximus is indicating that it is seriously... |
| 23.09.2024 | Take Part Foundation to Host Annual 'Donut Run' 5K to Support Children with Rare Pediatric Diseases | The Take Part Foundation's annual Donut Run helps to raise awareness around rare diseases.
Event raises funds for rare pediatric disease research and families seeking support.
We are thrilled for the return of our much anticipated Donut Run... |
| 18.09.2024 | Closing the gap between cyber risk strategy and execution | Effective cyber risk management is more crucial than ever for organizations across all industries as threat actors are constantly evolving their tactics. Yet, the latest Cyber Risk Peer Benchmarking Report from Critical Start unveils a stri... |
| 17.09.2024 | Justice Department Webinar on Designing Accessible Public Schools is a Key Resource for School Safety Planning | An important area for school safety planning that is often overlooked is school accessibility for students with disabilities. Accessibility barriers in public schools remain pervasive even decades after passage of Section 504 of the Rehabil... |
| 09.09.2024 | Health | Patients suffer when Indian Health Service doesn’t pay for outside care | Eligible patients aren’t guaranteed funding or timely help, however. Some of the Indian Health Service’s 170 service units exhaust their annual pool of money or reserve it for the most serious medical concerns.
Referred-care programs denied... |
| 29.08.2024 | 5 Ways Kamala Harris Can Support the Franchise Community, According to Two Industry Leaders The CEO of the International Franchise Association and the world's largest franchise operator outline five t... | The five weeks between the Republican and Democratic conventions could have been a lifetime, as a brand-new Democratic ticket formed in record speed. As always, the International Franchise Association (IFA) is neutral in presidential electi... |
| 22.08.2024 | Lack of detail sunk ICF’s bid for $308M GSA contract | A lack of detail in its proposal apparently sunk ICF International’s chances of hanging onto a contract for support of the General Services Administration's assisted acquisition arm.
GSA assigned a weakness to ICF’s technical proposal for t... |
| 22.08.2024 | As Perceived Need for Personal Protection Spurs Record Levels of U.S. Adults Purchasing Firearms for the First Time, New PSA Emphasizes Need to Store Guns Safely | Brady and the Ad Council's new "End Family Fire" campaign offers critical education on safe storage at a moment when increased rates of new gun ownership meets alarmingly high numbers of injury and death from firearms
NEW YORK, Au... |
| 20.08.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Generative AI is an energy hog and that could hurt progress fighting climate change | Given the environmental impacts, there has been increasing resistance from communities over plans to expand data centers. Lawmakers in Washington, Virginia, Georgia and other states have pushed for studies of data centers’ energy use and th... |
| 10.08.2024 | Health | Native American public health officials are stuck in data blind spot | Federal investigators and tribal epidemiologists have documented a litany of obstacles keeping state and federal public health information from tribes, including confusion about data-sharing policies, inconsistent processes for requesting i... |
| 07.08.2024 | GDIT's protest partially dismissed in $865M Air Force contract dispute | General Dynamics IT may have lost its latest protest involving a $865 million Air Force contract, but is not out of the game yet.
Back in February, the service branch awarded the seven-year contract to GovCIO for technical support to aid in... |
| 05.08.2024 | NASA's Lunar Gateway: A Complex Path to the Moon and Beyond | NASA's Lunar Gateway is meant to be a stepping stone to the stars. A small space station orbiting the Moon, it promises to facilitate lunar exploration and serve as a launchpad for missions to Mars. But the road to its realization is fraugh... |
| 04.08.2024 | Управляемость стека | 01.08.2024, Эрик Бергер, arstechnica.com У Лунного шлюза NASA возникла серьезная проблема с космическими кораблями посещения. «Эти дефекты могут привести к неожиданной перезагрузке бортовых компьютеров».
Визуализация предлагаемого NASA лунн... |
| 29.07.2024 | Peraton protest dismissed as premature | Peraton apparently found a lot of things not to like about how the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command is competing an open-source intelligence task order.
The Army is awarding the order via ASTRO, a contract vehicle finalized in 2021 ... |
| 26.07.2024 | How DOD detailed its conflict probe in audit support award | The Government Accountability Office's denial of Guidehouse's protest over an audit support contract that went to Deloitte outlines the right way and the wrong way to determine if there is a conflict of interest.
Guidehouse has twice protes... |
| 12.07.2024 | Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Implantable Medical Devices | Zac Amos, Features Editor at ReHack
While digitalization saves lives, it may also threaten them. The uptick in data breaches and cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry correlates to the number of internet-connected and insecure tech... |
| 12.07.2024 | FEMA Seeks Public Comments on the Community Rating System | WASHINGTON -- FEMA has published a notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment on the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System.
The public can provide comments on the suggested alternative program features to the... |
| 09.07.2024 | The GOP's Controversial Stance on Contraception Access: A Closer Look at Recent Legislative Failures | The recent failure of a bill aimed at protecting contraception access has sparked a heated debate among lawmakers and critics alike. Despite the legality of birth control across the country, concerns have been raised about the lack of concr... |
| 08.07.2024 | The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did. | Enlarge
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Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.
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| 04.07.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: GOP, if you’re ‘for contraception,’ show it | The bill failed earlier this month to reach the 60 votes needed to reach the Senate floor. All but two Republican senators voted against it.
Among critics’ objections to it: that there is no threat to contraception access, with birth contro... |
| 28.06.2024 | The Increasing Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Grocery Prices: A Closer Look at the Rising Cost of Climate Change | The correlation between isolated climate shocks and supply chain disruptions leading to higher food costs is becoming more pronounced in today's world. Economists and scientists are delving deeper into the role that individual extreme weath... |
| 28.06.2024 | How Bad Weather Forecasts Can Make Your Groceries More Expensive | 7 Mins Read Economists are seeing a growing link between isolated climate shocks and supply chain disruptions that lead to higher food costs.
By Ayurella Horn-Muller
It’s no secret that a warming world will drive food prices higher, a pheno... |
| 24.06.2024 | Social Security says it's improving a major practice called unfair by critics. Here's what to know. | The Social Security Administration on Monday said it is making a major change that could help more people qualify for disability benefits.
The change involves a practice used by the program to determine whether a disability applicant could,... |
| 14.06.2024 | Hearing Wrap Up: Enforcing GAO’s Agency Collaboration Recommendations Strengthens Services, Saves Cost, Builds Revenue | WASHINGTON—The Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce held a hearing today titled “What We Have Here…Is a Failure to Collaborate: Review of GAO’s Annual Duplication Report” to examine the effectiveness of federal ag... |
| 10.06.2024 | NIST Launches Collaborative Research Effort on Digital Identity to Support Secure Delivery of Public Benefits | Credit: N. Hanacek, B. Hayes/NIST
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a collaborative project to adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to support public... |
| 10.06.2024 | The risks and rewards of Active Directory modernization [Q&A] | Active Directory (AD) was introduced in the late 90's when corporate networking barely had virtualization and remote work, not to mention cloud services.
AD controls authentication and authorization to most of an organization's on-premises ... |
| 06.06.2024 | This Amazon-Backed Neuralink Rival Is Taking a Different Path to BCI Adoption | Cognixion offers two non-invasive BCI headsets that integrate into the company’s own computer platform. Cognixion
Brain-computer interface (BCI) company Cognixion is a direct rival of Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Both are working to transform int... |
| 05.06.2024 | In Best Value Determination Agency is Not Required to Quantify Benefits of Higher Priced Technically Rated Proposal | Offerors are sometimes distressed when an agency selects a significantly higher priced, higher technically rated proposal in a best value determination. The rejected offeror may believe that the government has not properly conducted the bes... |
| 31.05.2024 |
Watchdog report: Institutional investors ‘may have contributed to increasing home prices’ | A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that while institutional investors may have contributed to rising home prices since 2009, the actual impact they have had on homeownership opportunities is more difficul... |
| 31.05.2024 | U.S. President Biden Vetoes Resolution Overturning SEC Guidance | U.S President Joe Biden signed a veto of a House Joint Resolution that would have repealed the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, he announced Friday afternoon.
SAB 121 is a controversial piece of SEC ... |
| 30.05.2024 | Guidehouse resurrects protest after a DOD award again goes to Deloitte | Guidehouse has renewed its protest over an $80 million Defense Department contract for audit remediation and sustainment services that went to Deloitte.
A previous protest succeeded after Guidehouse raised issues around potential conflicts ... |
| 28.05.2024 | Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230 | It’s no fun when your friends ask you to take sides in their disputes. The plans for every dinner party, wedding, and even funeral arrive at a juncture where you find yourself thinking, “Dang, if I invite her, then he won’t come.”
It’s even... |
| 16.05.2024 | Health | What’s keeping the US from allowing better sunscreens? | In a rare example of bipartisanship last summer, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, thanked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for urging the FDA to speed up approvals of new, more effective sunscreen ingredients. Now a bipartisan bill is pending i... |
| 12.05.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Franco Montalto: As climate change amplifies urban flooding, communities can become ‘sponge cities’ | By Franco Montalto
“When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it’s becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a changing climate.
Across the continental U.S., intense single-day precipitation... |
| 10.05.2024 | Without Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Interventions, We Can’t Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis | May 1, 2024, marked World Maternal Mental Health Day, and on May 12, 2024, we will celebrate Mother’s Day. While maternal health is a recognized public health crisis in the United States, mental health, substance misuse, and substance use d... |
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