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Trump signs stopgap spending bill into law to avert shutdown
The stopgap legislation will keep the government from closing down at midnight Friday.
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Forest Service spends record $2B battling forest fires
The fires have stretched firefighting resources, destroyed more than 500 homes and triggered health alerts as choking smoke drifted into major Western cities.
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Think tank launches new center to study information warfare
The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a Washington, D.C., nonpartisan think tank, announced it is establishing the Center for Cyber-Influence Operations Studies.
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House passes $1.2T omnibus spending bill
The massive measure wraps the 12 annual spending bills into one and is the first time in more than a decade that the House has passed all of the appropriations bills in one fashion or the other by Sept. 30, the end of the budget year.
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VA running out of money for private health care program
Weeks after a veterans’ health initiative received $2.1 billion in emergency funding, the Trump administration says the private-sector Veterans Choice health care program may need additional money as early as December to avoid a disruption of care for hundreds of thousands of veterans.
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Lawmakers unveil planned VA health reforms, but department leaders want more
Proposals before Congress would allow more veterans to seek care at private-sector doctors’ offices with VA officials picking up the bill.
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VA Secretary Shulkin expects Choice funds will last until the end of 2017
The VA Secretary dismisses reports the funds will be used up well ahead of schedule, but confirms they won’t last much into the new year.
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Local voting districts seen as crucial to election security
Last November, election officials in a small Rhode Island town were immediately suspicious when results showed 99 percent of voters had turned down a noncontroversial measure about septic systems.
