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.

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?

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.

Oversight

Darrell Issa to Investigate 'Do-Nothing' Patent Office Employees

Move over, IRS. Oversight committee chairman has a new enemy.

Oversight

Having a Daughter Won't Make You Vote Democratic (or Republican)

A new study challenges previous conclusions about how parenthood changes politics.

Oversight

Play of the Day: How Hillary Accidentally Announced Her Bid For President

Why else would the former Secretary of State visit Iowa?

Oversight

Battle Over Postal-Service Cuts Looms in September

Squabble erupted after USPS announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs and consolidate 82 mail-processing centers in 2015.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Why Are Chris Christie And Hillary Clinton Celebrating?

The Tonight Show looks at 2016 contenders.

Oversight

Obama on Ferguson: There's a 'Gulf of Mistrust' Between People and Police

Attorney General Eric Holder will visit the St. Louis suburb on Wednesday, the president said Monday.

Oversight

Play of the Day: Everything Wrong With How The Police Have Handled Ferguson

Last Week Tonight takes on the situation in Missouri.

Nextgov

Exclusive: Nuke Regulator Hacked by Suspected Foreign Powers

Credential-stealing emails and social engineering involved in three NRC computer breaches.

Oversight

The Transparency Trap

Why trying to make government more accountable has backfired.

Nextgov

Defense IG Slaps Washington Headquarters Services for Poorly Managing Task Order

WHS calls report “jaundiced.”

Management

New VA Chief Wants to Fire More Employees . . . Respectfully

Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald says firing execs more quickly will take some time.

Oversight

Play of the Day: How America's Great Experiment Ends

Jimmy Fallon declares "We had a good run, America."

Oversight

The FBI Spied on the Wrong People Because of Typos

A new inspector general report concludes that the agency has collected communications data on the wrong targets due to typographical errors.

Management

It Just Got Easier to Lobby Federal Agencies

Facing litigation, the Obama administration rolls back restrictions aimed at curbing special interests.

Nextgov

IRS Gave Sensitive Data to Convict Sentenced to 21 Years

And failed to do background checks on many other contract workers who handled taxpayer files.

Oversight

One Company Is Really Psyched About EPA's Big Climate-Change Rule

Some businesses see opportunity in the regulation at the center of the White House climate-change agenda.