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The SEC Is Proposing Mandatory Cybersecurity Incident Reporting for Publicly Traded Companies

The new rules would require companies to disclose to investors material breaches within four business days.

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The CDC’s New Guidelines on Covid Risk and Masking Send Confounding Signals

The agency’s updated recommendations lower the level of covid risk for most of the country and therefore the need to mask. But some experts question the strategy.

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Here Are 10 Major Takeaways From the $1.5 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill

See which agencies are getting the biggest funding increases, hiring orders and new policy initiatives.

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The House Approves a 6.7% Full-Year Domestic Spending Increase, and Another CR

The Senate must act on the stopgap measure by Friday to avoid a shutdown, before taking up the omnibus spending package.

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A Bipartisan House Bill Would Set Federal Hiring Reform Measures Into Law

The Chance to Compete Act would codify recent administrative reforms aimed at incorporating skills-based assessments and stressing experience over educational attainment in the federal hiring process.

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Biden Has Picked a Long-Time Indian Health Service Official to Lead the Agency

Roselyn Tso would be in charge of an agency that serves members of 574 federally recognized tribes in 37 states. 

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Putin, Zelenskyy and Biden All Have Unique Leadership Styles

The current conflict in Ukraine has three key leaders, each of whom uses a different approach to the crisis.

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Feds Say Texas Discriminated against Communities of Color when It Denied Houston Flood Aid

Land Commissioner George P. Bush is in the middle of a fierce runoff in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general against incumbent Ken Paxton. During the race, several of Bush’s opponents have criticized his office’s work in distributing Hurricane Harvey relief funds.

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Even Mild Cases of COVID-19 Can Leave a Mark on the Brain, Such as Reductions in Gray Matter – a Neuroscientist Explains Emerging Research

New research offers insights into the brain after COVID-19 that may have implications for our understanding of long COVID-19 and how the disease affects our senses of taste and smell.

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Lawmakers Face a Tight Deadline to Pass Funding Bills

Although appropriators still had not released the text of a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package Tuesday afternoon, they insisted they would not resort to passing another stopgap measure to keep the government open.

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Experts Recommend Creating a New White House Position for Pandemic Response

COVID-19 may transition from pandemic to endemic status, but there will still be a new normal, they said.

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Charts Paint a Grim Picture 2 Years Into the Coronavirus Pandemic

The on-off nature of the pandemic "has led to a lot of the confusion and grumpiness," says one expert. Another compares it to the exhaustion of the American public when hearing body counts during the Vietnam War.

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GovExec Daily: What Managers Can Learn From Anthropologists

Steven L. Katz joins the podcast to discuss how managers can learn to lead better during the pandemic.

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The Secretary of State Has One Overarching Message for U.S. Embassy Personnel in Europe: ‘Thank You’

The secretary is abroad for five days continuing the Biden administration’s efforts to counter Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Clarifying the CDC's COVID-19 Quarantine and Isolation Guidelines – An Infectious Disease Doc Looks at the Latest Research

The CDC’s controversial recommendation changes are based on new studies showing that most omicron transmission takes place within five days of the onset of illness

Updated Management

A New Rule Aims to Boost Biden’s ‘Made in America’ Program

The update to the Buy American Act would build on the administration’s push to get federal agencies using more domestic products and services.

Management

Chief Human Capital Officers Need to Be Empowered to Really Transform Federal HR, Experts Say

More collaboration between chief human capital officers and agency executives and the Office of Personnel Management is needed to improve the hiring and retention of the federal workforce.

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The White House Has Details on Its Plan to Bring More Feds Back in April

Agencies across government will take on new responsibilities and offer more in-person services under Biden's new COVID-19 preparedness plan.