Australian Government Agencies Failing to Keep Up With Cyber Security Change
More Australian government agencies failed to meet the required levels of cyber security maturity in 2024 than in 2023, according to an assessment by the Australian Signals Directorate. The ASD…
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Rudy Guiliani’s Legal Strategy Is Performance Art
(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Rudy Giuliani spent the afternoon trying to convince Judge Beryl Howell in DC not to hold him in contempt for continuing to defame the Atlanta…
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Two former heads of FEMA describe the long road ahead for Los Angeles in the wake of devastating wildfires
Craig Fugate, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Obama administration, has seen a lot of natural disasters. He knows the difference between destruction and utter devastation, and…
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Inside Elon Musk’s Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs
An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the…
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Carter changed the way world saw the U.S. – often for the better
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter ended his one-term presidency in defeat. For years he was derided as a weak leader. But over time a fundamental shift took place in how Carter was…
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Mexico preps ‘panic app’ for Mexicans facing deportation under Trump
Mexico City — Hardly a day goes by here that Mexico’s president or one of her aides does not speak of some plan being devised in case President-elect Donald Trump goes…
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TikTok and Government Clash in Last Round of Supreme Court Briefs
The two sides in the momentous clash at the Supreme Court over a measure that could shut down TikTok made their closing written arguments on Friday, sharply disputing China’s influence…
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Texas AG Paxton Invents Scourge Of Trans Athletes For NCAA Trollsuit
Ken Paxton Texas AG Ken Paxton emerged from under his bridge to file another performative trollsuit yesterday. This time his target is the NCAA, which he accuses of violating Texas’s…
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Jimmy Carter dies; 39th president became human rights advocate
Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United States, promising “honest and decent” government to Watergate-weary Americans, and later returned to…
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Rudy Giuliani Finishes 2024 As He Began It … In Deep Shit
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rudy Giuliani is running through the tape in 2024, and so is his badabing-badabang lawyer Joe Cammarata. Although only one of them is in the…
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Column: Carter was the right candidate, but was he the right president?
SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but he…
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The election year was bruising for America. What does 2025 hold?
SACRAMENTO — How do you summarize — or make sense of — 2024? It’s been a year of upheaval, division, winners and losers. And perhaps most disturbingly, a year that has…
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Elon Musk’s strange debut as a federal budget negotiator
In the wake of a successful effort to kill a year-end spending bill and replace it with more limited legislation to keep the government open, Elon Musk declared victory last…
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Will Trump send troops to Mexico? His ambassador pick worries officials there
One of the more surprising foreign policy ideas the Trump team has proposed on the eve of its ascension to power is military intervention in Mexico to go after drug…
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In a global quest, Chinese EV makers invest big in Thailand
BANGKOK — Japanese car factories in Thailand — which for decades has been the premiere hub of auto manufacturing in Southeast Asia — are shutting down or scaling back. Subaru said…
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Inside China’s alleged spy operation in L.A. County
It was no secret that authorities believed the Chinese government intended to infiltrate state and local governments across America. For years, the FBI has warned cities and police agencies about…
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Government Shutdown, NLRB Changes & More
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business. ’Twas the Night Before…
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With government shutdown looming, what happens to bird flu surveillance?
As government agencies prepare for a potential shutdown, questions about the government’s response to a potentially burgeoning H5N1 bird flu pandemic are top of mind for many public health and…
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This Attorney Reportedly Willing To Restrict Access To Abortion Pill
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to comments by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), which Trump cabinet pick committed to to reinstating anti-choice rules…
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A massacre, a rumored hanging and Syrians’ thirst for revenge
DAMASCUS, Syria — The crowd surged forward, thousands cheering, waving and jostling their way around Damascus’ Al Ashmar Square, all positioning themselves for the best view of a hanging. “Hurry up,”…
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