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

Housing organizations told the Government Accountability Office that they now face more obstacles getting in touch with department employees in a timely manner.

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More Than 100 Suspicious Letters Sent to Election Officials NationwideMore than 100 letters containing an unknown white substance were mailed to election officials, state officials, and members of Congress, according to three election workers who were briefed on the investigation and spoke to Votebeat . The FBI acknowledged an investigation into the letters on Thursday, though it did not state how many letters exactly were…

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Suspicious mailings to election officials, congressional offices under investigationThe FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into the mailings, some of which included an unidentified powdery white substance.

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Senate on high alert as mystery letters with unknown substance target CongressLetters containing “ suspicious substances ” have turned up at Senate offices and election offices nationwide, prompting a federal investigation just three weeks before the midterm elections. A notice from the Senate Sergeant at Arms, reported by Punchbowl News, told Senate offices Thursday that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the FBI and the U.S.…

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The Trump Administration and the Shrinking Number of Women in Top RolesIn President Trump’s second term, those heading for the exits, voluntarily or involuntarily, are female officials.

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USPS Probes Suspicious Mail While Vowing to Deliver BallotsThe FBI and US Postal Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings to state election officials across the country, some of which contain unknown substances, officials told reporters on Thursday.

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Senators Demand Investigation Into Ukraine Satellite DisruptionRepublicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon’s inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.

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4 GOP senators join letter demanding Pentagon inspector general investigation of Ukraine’s Starlink outageFour Republican senators have signed on to a letter to the Defense Department’s inspector general expressing “grave concern” over Ukraine’s sudden loss of access to intelligence-sharing and high-speed Starlink data, which it needs to intercept Russian drones, and asked him to investigate whether senior Defense officials played a role. “We urgently…

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Trump watchdog under investigation for corruption after agency praised the presidentThe U.S. Office of Special Counsel will look into allegations that Anthony D’Esposito , a former Long Island congressman now serving as the Labor Department’s inspector general, has let politics seep into his nonpartisan job, Newsday reported . In a letter Wednesday to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, OSC said it…

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