Some of the IRS employees who took last year's buyout added a little five-finger bonus to their departure, walking away with government laptops and smartphones they should have returned.
The Trump administration relied on flawed logic to justify scrapping vehicle emissions standards this year, making errors in how it accounted for fuel savings, the price of technology and mileage, according to a new study by a group of economists.
Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Donald Trump's helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet and the chopper were allowed to take off at the same time, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
ARTHURDALE, West Virginia — The road into this quiet Preston County community gives little warning that it was once the setting for one of the New Deal’s most ambitious, and most debated, experiments. Ninety-three years ago, Arthurdale became the first experimental community established under the federal subsistence-homesteads program, an effort to help impoverished families move […]
A group of mostly Democratic senators pressed for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to not use gloves that can electrically shock people in a Thursday letter. In the letter addressed to ICE Acting Director David Venturella, the senators said that they were writing “to express deep concern about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story All eyes on Warsh in Wyoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is under the microscope as he heads to Jackson Hole for the Wyoming town’s signature economic symposium Friday, where eagle-eyed investors will be searching for...
A Utah software engineer, who runs a massive pro-Trump social media account that has drawn attention from the likes of Elon Musk, made a sinister declaration in a post on Aug. 21. The “Deep State” was setting her up to “commit a crime.” “I have never been more angry in my life,” Jennica Pounds, who...
A federal judge on Wednesday halted the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul a decades-old grant program targeting housing discrimination, siding with fair housing groups that argued the changes hindered their ability to work. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun, who was appointed by former President Biden, ruled that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is under the microscope as he heads to Jackson Hole for the Wyoming town’s signature economic symposium Friday, where eagle-eyed investors will be searching for any clue about the central bank’s plans for grappling with sticky inflation and an increasingly jittery bond market. Warsh, who has opted for a less-is-more...