• Report: Feds should create guidelines on less-lethal weapons
    Report: Feds should create guidelines on less-lethal weapons

    The report — released Friday by the Police Executive Research Forum, an organization dedicated to improving the professionalism of policing — examines how police departments handled the thousands of protests and civil unrest in the U.S. in the summer of 2020, after George Floyd was killed at the hands of officers in Minneapolis.

  • Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court
    Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court

    President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

  • Senate confirms health care watchdog assailed by Trump
    Senate confirms health care watchdog assailed by Trump

    No Republicans objected to confirming Christi A. Grimm, a longtime civil servant to be HHS inspector general. Her division includes some 1,600 auditors, law enforcement agents, and management experts, and is known for its annual health care fraud takedowns. The voice vote came Thursday evening.

  • FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation
    FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation

    Stephen Dickson, a former pilot and executive with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, had led the FAA since August 2019. He citied separation from his family during the pandemic, saying he told President Joe Biden, “It is time to go home.”

  • Union urges ending Pentagon’s civilian hiring caps
    Union urges ending Pentagon’s civilian hiring caps

    America’s largest federal employee union is urging lawmakers to repeal statutory limits on the number of civilian workers at the Pentagon, some which date back more than 30 years.

  • Senate confirms Biden’s FDA pick despite political divisions
    Senate confirms Biden’s FDA pick despite political divisions

    The 50-46 vote means Dr. Robert Califf, a cardiologist and prominent medical researcher, will again lead the powerful regulatory agency, which he briefly headed during the end of President Barack Obama’s administration.

  • CISA warns of potential Russian cyberattacks as invasion fears mount
    CISA warns of potential Russian cyberattacks as invasion fears mount

    CISA said no credible cyber threats against the U.S. homeland are known at this time, but cautioned Russia could choose to escalate the situation.

  • US judge strikes down Biden climate damage cost estimate
    US judge strikes down Biden climate damage cost estimate

    U.S. District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana sided with Republican attorneys general from energy producing states who said the administration’s action to raise the cost estimate of carbon emissions threatened to drive up energy costs while decreasing state revenues from energy production.

  • Is Presidents Day a federal holiday?
    Is Presidents Day a federal holiday?

    Every year, federal workers ask if Presidents Day—which in 2022 falls on Monday, February 21—will be a holiday. Here’s the answer.

  • Federal and military users can now track potential terrorist activities with an app
    Federal and military users can now track potential terrorist activities with an app

    Need a “onestop shop for counterterroism analysis”? There’s an app for that, and it’s called aCTknowledge.