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Germany’s Baerbock hammers own government for faltering on Ukraine aid

Germany’s Baerbock hammers own government for faltering on Ukraine aid

BERLIN — German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized her own government for its indecisiveness on Ukraine aid, signaling deep divisions inside the interim cabinet and growing discord among mainstream political parties amid a heated election campaign.


DOJ Sues Six Major Landlords Alleging Rent Inflation Scheme

DOJ Sues Six Major Landlords Alleging Rent Inflation Scheme

Cortland Management, one of the accused landlords, agreed to cooperate with the DOJ and stop using common rental pricing algorithms and competitively sensitive data to set rents as part of a settlement agreement.


IG, regulator bash USPS plans to slow some mail delivery

IG, regulator bash USPS plans to slow some mail delivery

USPS leadership added that it expects costs to stabilize as the initiative matures and said it had to award emergency contracts and add staff in some cases due to unexpected performance issues.


FBI confirms New Orleans attack was a terrorist incident

FBI confirms New Orleans attack was a terrorist incident

Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said at a press conference Thursday that the attack, which killed at least 14 people and injured 35 more, was an act of terrorism.


Biden to close federal agencies Jan. 9 for Carter day of mourning

Biden to close federal agencies Jan. 9 for Carter day of mourning

Despite notable accomplishments as president, his time out of the White House may have arguably eclipsed his tenure as chief executive, including decades of humanitarian work leading to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.


See where and how Biden grew the federal workforce

See where and how Biden grew the federal workforce

Quickly after his election, Jen Psaki, then a transition advisor, said career civil servants were “the heart and soul of government” and it was a priority for Biden to rebuild federal agencies that “wouldn't function without the thousands of people who have served for decades.”


Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns

Meloni’s Albanian migrant detention centers are now ghost towns

“It looked like a ghost town,” Volt Europe co-President Francesca Romana D’Antuono, who visited the detention center in Gjadër in late November and took part in protests against the camp with local activists, told POLITICO.


The biggest battles headed for Brussels

The biggest battles headed for Brussels

The new Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen will find it hard enough to preserve the fragile consensus on farming reforms, which he is supposed to pour into a 100-day “vision” that would seek to placate angry farmers by easing environmental burdens and boosting their incomes.


Musk and Ramaswamy to confront Congress in struggle for control of the public purse

Musk and Ramaswamy to confront Congress in struggle for control of the public purse

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said during a press conference he expects it will take some time for Musk and Ramaswamy to “scrutinize government operations and figure out where we can achieve savings and efficiencies” before Congress reviews those recommendations and puts them in a bill.


Slovak PM Fico offered to host Moscow-Kyiv peace talks, Putin claims

Slovak PM Fico offered to host Moscow-Kyiv peace talks, Putin claims

Fico has emerged this year, alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as an advocate for Putin and for Russia within the European Union, vowing to block Ukraine from joining NATO and refusing to send “another bullet” of state military aid to Kyiv.


Toxic slime and gassy trees: 3 ways Christmas is busting the planet

Toxic slime and gassy trees: 3 ways Christmas is busting the planet

Feeding livestock also requires vast tracts of land to be cleared to grow the soy, corn and other grains that fatten up your Christmas turkey or your celebratory loin of beef.


An open letter to the public administration and public management communities

An open letter to the public administration and public management communities

Ten careerists in the Homeland Security Department were listed on a “watchlist” of “America’s most subversive immigration bureaucrats.” Individual employees are finding themselves called out by name in an effort to “putthem in trauma.”