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Secret Service needs to fix ‘corrosive cultural attitudes’ with its workforce to prevent a successful assassination, panel finds

Secret Service needs to fix ‘corrosive cultural attitudes’ with its workforce to prevent a successful assassination, panel finds

Similar to a bipartisan report issued last month by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel cited USSS for not clearly identifying who was in charge in Butler, not adequately ensuring communication and coordination between the agency and other law enforcement entities and failing to deploy agents with requisite experience.


Von der Leyen sets new rules for Commission cabinet hires

Von der Leyen sets new rules for Commission cabinet hires

The future commissioners have spent weeks anticipating these rules as they plan their five-year terms in Brussels, which will begin pending approval by the European Parliament after grueling hearings set for November.


Federal personnel are facing threats during hurricane response, DHS chief warns

Federal personnel are facing threats during hurricane response, DHS chief warns

Federal employees aiding in disaster response and recovery efforts are facing threats that could lead to harm, Homeland Security Department Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cautioned on Thursday, saying his agency would help protect those being targeted.


Candidate-centric vetting: A new era of mobility

Candidate-centric vetting: A new era of mobility

With more than 15 years of experience in enterprise vetting and analysis, his extensive knowledge and dedication to enhancing Trusted Workforce 2.0 make him a highly sought-after and passionate resource for driving change and improvement.


Does Trump have the right idea about dismantling the Deep State?

Does Trump have the right idea about dismantling the Deep State?

Designed to accommodate clerks processing forms, and then amended in the 1960s to appease federal unions, the civil service system is a rusty industrial age machine disconnected from performance and repellant to highly qualified people.


Election-year politics color hurricane recovery efforts

Election-year politics color hurricane recovery efforts

Jeff Landry says that he plans to call the legislature into a special session in November, marking the third such gathering this year, with the hopes of overhauling the state’s current tax system that the Republican said is failing residents.


PMQs: Keir Starmer wins despite all the drama

PMQs: Keir Starmer wins despite all the drama

Sunak had the receipts, pointing out that Chancellor Rachel Reeves had once called a similar step “fiddling the figures.” Notably, Starmer didn’t rule out the reported change — and went back on the attack about the Tories’ economic record and elections rout.


Congress left D.C. with little done, they’ll be back Nov. 12 to give it another try

Congress left D.C. with little done, they’ll be back Nov. 12 to give it another try

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said just a day before Hurricane Helene made landfall that Democrats would advocate for passing natural disaster response funding previously requested by the Biden administration.


The major takeaways for federal employees from the vice presidential debate

The major takeaways for federal employees from the vice presidential debate

Walz and Vance traded barbs over the bipartisan border bill that failed in Congress earlier this year, in large part because Trump lobbied Republicans against it.


OSC praises case resolutions involving alleged retaliation against federal employees

OSC praises case resolutions involving alleged retaliation against federal employees

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel on Wednesday touted recent resolutions to cases where agencies allegedly committed prohibited personnel practices against federal employees, including whistleblower retaliation.


EU’s top court scraps controversial truck return obligation

EU’s top court scraps controversial truck return obligation

The EU's highest court threw out on Friday a controversial measure mandating that trucks have to return to their registered base every eight weeks, bringing an exceptionally bitter feud at the heart of the internal market to a close.


New York City Mayor Faces Federal Felony Charges

New York City Mayor Faces Federal Felony Charges

The indictment claims that Adams urged the New York City Fire Department to let the building open in time for a planned visit by the President of Turkey.