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White House to Agencies: Embrace Offbeat Methods for Buying Tech
Innovative procurement methods can provide agencies with more bang for their buck, White House officials say.
Oversight
CDC Counts 68 Ebola Scares in United States
Agency works closely with hospitals and clinics to determine whether or not patients should be tested.
Management
Tired of Fire Drills? Appoint a Fire Marshal
Before you know it, you've turned over much of your week to stuff you had no idea was going to come up.
Management
Eric Holder Almost Gives the Ferguson Race Speech Obama Couldn't
"I am the Attorney General of the United States. But I am also a black man," Holder says.
Defense
U.S. Refused to Pay ISIL's Ransom Demands for James Foley
Captors sought $100 million and a prisoner exchange.
Oversight
Fight Brews Over How Long a Shutdown-Avoiding Measure Should Last
Some want all 2015 spending issues to be pushed into the next Congress.
Oversight
Play of the Day: The 2016 Contender Everyone Wants To Forget About
Is Mitt Romney waiting in the wings?
Management
There's More to Life Than Facial Symmetry
A new study finds that possessing a balanced appearance has nothing to do with health, so we can all stop obsessing already.
Defense One
John Allen: Destroy the Islamic State Now
What we’re facing in northern Iraq is only partly a crisis about Iraq. It is about the region and potentially the world as we know it.
Defense
Obama: ISIL 'Has No Place in the 21st Century'
President condemns militant group responsible for the murder of journalist James Foley.
Nextgov
Pro-Palestinian Hackers Deface Delaware State Treasury Site
Hactivists defaced the site with messages including: ‘Hacking sites will not STOP!!! Unless Gaza is Free.'
Pay & Benefits
How Veterans’ Preference Laws Are Dragging Down Federal Hiring
‘Unwieldy’ and ‘convoluted’ laws are confusing vets and feds alike, report finds.
Nextgov
Is There Ebola on That Smartphone?
Swabbing an iPad with alcohol could erase data as well as germs.
Route Fifty
Drilling Industry Influence Looms Large In Energy-Rich Colorado County
Did local commissioners and drillers push to get a local reporter fired?
Pay & Benefits
Three Charts Showing How White Males Hold the Highest-Paid Federal Jobs
The average male fed is a full grade level above the typical woman.
Tech
McConnell Promises Spending Standoff Over Obama’s Green Agenda
The GOP leader stopped short of an explicit shutdown threat, but he did say a Republican majority would use the budget to go after EPA’s environmental rules.
Defense
John Kerry: ISIL 'Must Be Destroyed'
Secretary of State has strong words about the U.S. mission against the militant group.
Management
It’s Time to Focus on Empowerment and Recognition
What it will take to pull up from dead last in the Best Places to Work rankings.
Oversight
Darrell Issa to Investigate 'Do-Nothing' Patent Office Employees
Move over, IRS. Oversight committee chairman has a new enemy.
Management