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It is that time of the year when many federal employees, as well as retirees, must make some important decisions regarding their federal retirement and insurance benefits. I thought it might be a good ...

Retired federal workers will see their defined benefit pension payments increase slightly next year, though by how much depends largely on when they were hired. The Social Security Administration ...

(NEXSTAR) – Partisan messages recently posted to government websites have prompted complaints that several federal officials may have violated the Hatch Act, a law passed in 1939 to restrict certain ...

LATEST Oct. 23, 10 a.m. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday morning that President Donald Trump had agreed to call off plans to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco in a phone ...

Federal agents ended up tear-gassing Chicago police officers on Tuesday while trying to perform basic crowd control, violating a temporary restraining order banning the very use of tear gas in the ...

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out its mass firing of federal workers during the government shutdown. This Wednesday ruling comes on ...

Washington — President Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of National Guard members in Illinois, teeing up a showdown over the president's power to send ...

A federal government shutdown will halt November SNAP benefits for Louisiana residents. More than 800,000 Louisianans who rely on the program could face food insecurity. Gov. Jeff Landry has blamed ...