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Federal offices in DC area closed due to snowstorm

Employees who telework or work fully remotely are expected to continue going so and generally do not receive weather and safety leave.

By Molly Weisner

3 months ago

‘Protesters are in the building’: US Capitol under siege

Hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters paraded and hollered through some of the most hallowed spaces in the Capitol.

3 years ago

Key Senate panel approves $250 million for election security

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced in a floor speech in advance of the Appropriations Committee vote that he would support the funding.

5 years ago

Homeland Security raids Coast Guard coffers to pay for border programs

FEMA also will be affected by a DHS move to reallocate $271 million, officials say.

5 years ago

OPM calls a snow day for capital-area feds

Federal buildings in the Washington, D.C.-area are closed Feb. 20 in anticipation of snow and ice scheduled to hit the area.

By Jessie Bur

5 years ago

Cybersecurity firm: US Senate in Russian hackers' crosshairs

Fancy Bear, the group whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is "still very active — in making preparations at least — to influence public opinion again,” said Feike Hacquebord, a security researcher at Trend Micro Inc., which published the report. “They are looking for information they might leak later.”

6 years ago

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