When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor rights.

For the first time in decades, the federal bureaucracy is getting smaller. According to the latest federal jobs report, the government has shed roughly 271,000 civilian positions in the past year, ...

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Ready to circle back to your to-do list in the new year? The days between the holidays can feel like you're functioning outside of time. Jan. 1, 2026, is a Thursday. It's also a federal and state ...

As the holiday season reaches its height, President Donald Trump has moved to give federal workers a longer Christmas break. On Thursday, Dec. 18, Trump signed an executive order adding two extra paid ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 18 that adds two federal holidays for 2025: Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and the day after Christmas (Dec. 26). The order makes those ...

The Trump administration wants the public to weigh in as it prepares for a review of the federal subsistence program in Alaska, an action that the state’s largest Alaska Native group fears will weaken ...

The fence around a "Building A Better Boston" project gets its feet wet as high tide during the snow storm floods across Long Wharf in 2020. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) New research from the Woods Hole ...

WASHINGTON STATE – A federal judge has blocked the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from implementing changes to its largest homelessness grant program. The judge's order requires HUD ...

Government officials and education experts are right to express concerns about recent evidence of declining academic achievement among the students who struggle most. Researchers are exploring ...

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - For more than a decade, the Jessamine County Detention Center has been trying to prepare inmates for life beyond jail. That includes the work they’re doing within and the ...