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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Twenty billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at, even for a department as big as Veterans Affairs. But … [Continue reading] about Veterans Affairs only spent about half of CARES Act money so far, GAO says
LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s health system was still struggling to restore its computers and treat patients on Tuesday, four days after it shut down its entire IT system in response to a cyberattack. Thousands of diagnostic appointments, cancer treatment … [Continue reading] about Irish health system struggling to recover from cyberattack
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The check won’t arrive until mid-July, but Katrina Peters already knows what she’ll do with her Child Tax Credit payments. The 20-year-old mother of three has applied to work as a driver with a food delivery app, and the … [Continue reading] about Can monthly cash payments cut child poverty by nearly half?
NAGURSKOYE, Russia (AP) — During the Cold War, Russia’s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. It was a remote and desolate home mostly for polar bears, … [Continue reading] about Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a year after coronavirus shutdowns sent “the city that never sleeps” into a fitful slumber, New York could be wide awake again this summer. Starting Wednesday, vaccinated New Yorkers can shed their masks in most situations, … [Continue reading] about ‘City in transition’: New York vies to turn page on pandemic
