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• HUD’s staffing cuts hurt certain housing services, watchdog finds

• AI offers Secret Service unique mission enhancements, official says

• Federal retirees face more than a COLA change in 2027

• The next counterintelligence threat may be hiding in federal hiring

• OPM revamps online pay tables, spearheads AI adoption across federal workforce 

• Trump quietly hired political appointees under a new job classification, good government group reports

• Cost-of-living adjustments for federal retirees to increase next year

• ICE resists automatic activation of body cameras despite oversight concerns

• A judge just put USDA’s employee relocation plans on ice

• Disability accommodations at Labor get extra scrutiny with annual reviews

• Fraud-prevention work stalled at USDA amid staffing cuts and funding disputes

• Labor has mostly stopped checking whether federal contractors are following disability rules

• USDA reshapes its food assistance agency, but employee relocations remain on hold 

• The Pentagon gave $350 million in contracts to a firm closely tied to a senior Defense Department official

• 8 midterm races for federal employees to watch

• HHS scraps disability accommodations over missing paperwork. Employees say they have receipts 

• Watchdog to examine summertime hack of DHS information network, other incidents

• Bureau of Prisons re-terminates union contracts despite court order

• VA rolls out CLEAR login option and in-person identity verification pilot

• Some former federal employees are still struggling to find the right fit

• Don’t let 5% become your TSP retirement strategy

• Union demands federal prison leaders be held in contempt after agency ‘openly defies’ court order

• Social Security ends flexible work schedules, teeing up clash with union

• Using holiday lights to inform hurricane recovery? Award honors ‘seemingly odd’ federally funded research that brings about groundbreaking discoveries