Print this article Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds as people receive recognitions during a meeting regarding the coronavirus outbreak, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 8, 2020.
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The Chinese space program is launching rockets and not caring whether the falling debris lands on populated areas.
The regime in Beijing spent the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic contradicting doctors on the ground in Wuhan and insisting the virus could not spread from one person to another. Then Chinese companies shipped faulty personal protective equipment all around the world. Their vaccine that they shipped abroad barely works, charging some countries $36 per dose. China’s regime said they would allow investigators unfettered access to investigate the origin of the virus, and then broke that promise. And they made the nonsensical accusation that COVID-19 originated at the U.S. biological defense program at Fo
Feds get more options for specialized education programs 1 day ago Feds will have six new programs to choose from, under the Office of Personnel Management s Federal Academic Alliance. (iStock/Getty Images) Federal employees looking to obtain a bachelors or masters degree to further their government careers will now have six more options to choose from, as part of new academic agreements the Office of Personnel Management announced May 7. The Federal Academic Alliance program, which now partners with 23 colleges and universities, offers federal employees and in some cases their families reduced tuition rates and scholarships for degree programs deemed essential for closing government skills gaps.
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President Joe Biden is exempting several top administration officials from ethics rules that would restrict their work with labor unions that previously employed them.
The White House waived ethics rules in an April 29 memo for Celeste Drake, who Biden appointed to lead the new Made in America Office. She previously worked at the AFL-CIO and Directors Guild of America, and ethics rules would have otherwise prohibited her from working or communicating with either of her former employers, Axios reported.
The Office of Personnel Management similarly waived ethics rules in a March 15 memo for Alethea Predeoux, the agency’s director of intergovernmental affairs. She was the top lobbyist for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents hundreds of thousands of federal workers, Axios reported.
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The Senior Executive Association’s initial review says the proposal “makes sense on its face.”
The nation’s campaign watchdog agency recommended to Congress on Thursday that its senior employees be able to join the Senior Executive Service.
That was one of 14 legislative recommendations the six commissioners of the Federal Election Commission unanimously approved during the panel’s eighth open meeting this year. The Senior Executive Service is the position classification for top policy, supervisory and managerial jobs in federal agencies.
“The commission believes that these statutory changes are needed to bring the commission’s personnel structure in line with that of other comparable federal agencies,” said an explanatory statement. “This would ensure that the commission is better able to compete with other government agencies in recruiting and retaining key ma