TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
Making Government 'Simpler'
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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The administration really doesn't want to talk about the drone that killed an American citizen
January 3, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
In the latest sign that President Obama's targeted killing program may be forever shrouded in secrecy, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon has denied a Freedom of Information Request from the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times over the death of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American-born son of ...
Why Is Eric Schmidt Going to North Korea?
January 3, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Don't call him an ambassador, and don't count on Google North Korea just yet, but Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is going on a North Korean vacation with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, reports the Associated Press. Google's place in Kim Jong-un's alleged "industrial revolution" remains very much unclear, ...
Bandits make off with $1.3 million worth of Apple products in Paris
January 2, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Some people in Paris were apparently unsatisfied with the post-Christmas sales at the Apple store in Paris, France, so they decided to give themselves a five-finger discount to the tune of $1.3 million. Now that's some extreme couponing. A few hours before midnight Monday night, the Wall Street Journal reports ...
Be careful when downloading your Twitter archive
December 17, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Twitter is rolling out the long-awaited feature of downloading your entire tweet history, it seems, but be careful. You might not like what you find in there. Sometimes we remember our tweets with rose-colored lenses. The Next Web was the first to notice a few users posting about being able ...
One man is now tweeting every known U.S. drone strike
December 12, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Josh Begley set out to tweet a complete history of known U.S. drone strikes Tuesday with the goal of doing it all in ten minutes. Except there were way too many strikes to tweet, so his original plan fell apart pretty quickly. You might recognize Begley's name. He is the ...
The FCC joins the gadgets-on-flights fight
December 7, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
The calls are coming from inside the bureaucracy. The FCC wants the FAA to stop being a bunch of buzzkills and finally let us use our phones and tablets during takeoff. The Hill's Jennifer Martinez got her hands on a letter Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, ...
The final election receipts exceeded $2 billion
December 7, 2012 The most expensive election in the history of expensive elections passed a major milestone Thursday evening: the cost of the election was revealed to be more than $2 billion dollars. Campaign finance forms released Thursday evening showed the combined fundraising of the Romney and Obama campaigns brought the election over ...
Susan Rice to face her critics
November 27, 2012 U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice took the initiative to invite John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte to sit down and speak with her Tuesday like reasonable adults about her controversial comments on the Benghazi attacks. They all said yes. Yep, Rice invited her biggest fans to come and chat with ...
White House drafts ‘kill list’ rule book
November 26, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
The secret list the White House uses to determine who to target with a drone strike, known as the 'kill list' -- or 'disposition matrix,' whatever -- is still highly classified, but we know there isn't a hard-and-fast set of rules they follow. Well, it seems like there will be ...
NASA to Reveal Historic Discovery in December
November 21, 2012 Subscribe: > Newsletter > Facebook > LinkedIn Update: According to Information Week Government, data that NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist John Grotzinger told National Public Radio was "for the history books," will be revealed in early December. The annoucement is expected to come during a meeting of the American Geophysical ...
