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Former OPM employee Sheron Spann will be sentenced Sept. 21 for steering information technology contracts to a company her husband co-founded.

The Bipartisan Policy Center modeled the Treasury Department’s cash flow, noting what day bills are paid as the U.S. tries to raise the debt ceiling.

The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other U.S. officials. That tally cited in newly released congressional testimony underscores the weaknesses in how the government tracks and safeguards its most important secrets. Archives officials said most of the calls came...

Research shows women earn more when they don’t have to disclose their previous pay in job interviews.

The new rule would affect eight military bases, including three that are tied to the B-21 Raider, the nation’s future stealth bomber.

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan will introduce a new bill that would cut the soaring cost of minting America’s coins.

In addition to $8.1 billion for NASA’s lunar Artemis program, Biden also aims to allocate funds for a mission to return Mars rock and soil samples.

President Joe Biden unveiled his proposed federal budget, with a plan he says will cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade.

The White House is giving U.S. federal agencies 30 days to delete popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices amid growing concerns about security.

Treasury will exhaust its emergency measures sometime between July and September unless Congress raises the debt ceiling, the Congressional Budget Office says.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the first U.S. missile fired at an unidentified object over Lake Huron missed the target and “landed harmlessly” in the water, but a second one successfully hit. The acknowledgment Tuesday by Gen. Mark Milley of the errant strike comes amid questions about whether the shootdown of aerial objects that military officials...

The House speaker arrived for the afternoon session carrying no formal GOP budget proposal, but he is laden with the promises he made to far-right and other conservative Republican lawmakers during his difficult campaign to become House speaker.

Sue O’Connell spoke with James Pindell, a reporter for The Boston Globe, who explains what the debt ceiling is, how the fight over it is different this time and what could happen if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.

Your tax refund could be delayed if your return has errors or is incomplete, among other reasons.

The majority of tax refunds will be distributed no more than 21 days after the IRS has received your tax return, and the agency has an online tool where you can check your refund’s status.

Access to health care for Native Americans across the U.S. will be bolstered with funding included in a government spending bill approved by Congress.

Congress passed a large spending package that includes a bill banning TikTok from being used on government devices and new filing fees for mergers.