Seeking to secure vital supplies, the authorities in the country maneuvered around anticorruption rules that require public disclosure of contracts. KYIV, Ukraine — After a revolution seven years ago, Ukrainians discovered that their ousted president had used public money to build himself a gigantic palace with a private zoo, a …
Read More »Photo by Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock.com The 2020 U.S. Census is upon us. The U.S. Constitution requires that every decade, a census must be taken to count all people in the U.S. Call it a hunch, but we guess that few of you enjoy filling out the paperwork the U.S. Census …
Read More »Photo by Andy Dean Photography / Shutterstock.com Right now, the COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping through the country and upending lives. However, the government recognizes the disruption of many Americans’ finances right now. As a result, there are some big money moves being made by the government, primarily through new laws …
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(Reuters) — Video conferencing company Zoom has been responsive to concerns over its software, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a memo recently distributed to top government cybersecurity officials and seen by Reuters. The memo — drafted by DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal …
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(Reuters) — The U.S. Senate agreed on Monday to extend a set of government surveillance tools for 77 days, to allow lawmakers time to consider broader changes to the divisive domestic eavesdropping program. The Senate had been due to begin voting on Monday evening on a bill passed in the …
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