A group of lawmakers is taking steps to try to clarify job protections for the tens of thousands of probationary federal employees who were recently fired from their positions. The Protect Our ...

That message said the presidential rank awards would resume in 2026. The PRAs, which were established in 1978 and are administered by the Office of Personnel Management, provide monetary prizes ...

Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial concern in a Gallup survey last May. Since then, it’s gotten only worse. January home sales were down 5 percent from last year ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in ...

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request to block employees with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing a sensitive federal payment system at the Treasury Department.

As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents ...

Lisa Desjardins: Quite a lot of news. That first one has to do with the U.S. Department of Agriculture specifically, where we know now about 6,000 probationary workers were fired. Now, in a ruling ...

Federal agencies and departments are spending more of your money than ever — far above the rate of inflation over the past quarter-century, despite headcount dwindling by as much as 26.7% from ...