Just because incidents of political interference within the United States' top health agencies are not reported, does not mean they don't happen, a new federal report finds.
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The Government Accountability Office, which is a non-partisan congressional watchdog agency, was asked to review the federal response and other issues related to the MMIW crisis.
Chris Rock's incendiary 2014 essay on race in The Hollywood Reporter asks a question that set off a reckoning still in progress. “Forget wheth…
A U.S. government watchdog agency faulted the Trump administration Tuesday for its handling of a COVID-19 relief effort that awarded companies breaks on payments for oil and gas extracted from public lands in Western states in more than 500 cases.
The other day, when my son and I were at Fort Missoula looking at the line of mountains in the distance, he innocently asked why one didn’t ha…
A U.S. government watchdog agency said Friday that 81 Bureau of Land Management employees have declined to relocate to Western states or left their positions as the Trump administration pursues a broad reorganization of the bureau's headquarters staff.
The White House violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday.
Federal employees overseeing U.S. public lands were assaulted or threatened at least 360 times over a five-year period marked by heightened tensions with anti-government groups and dwindling ranks of law enforcement officers, a congressional watchdog agency said Monday.
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Trump administration's Interior Department violated federal law in dipping into user fees to reopen national parks during last winter's government shutdown, a government watchdog agency concludes in a scathing legal opinion that warns officials risk fines and prison if they do it again.
Local U.S. Forest Service officials still are assessing impacts from the recent 35-day partial government shutdown, but say they appreciated community support while navigating uncertain times.
TRUMP: "These (border) agents will tell you where walls go up, illegal crossings go way, way down ... San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings in our country. In response, a strong security wall was put in place. This powerful barrier almost completely ended illegal crossings ... Simply put, walls work and walls save lives."
TRUMP: "As a candidate for President, I promised I would fix this crisis, and I intend to keep that promise one way or the other. ... To physically secure our border, the plan includes $5.7 billion for a strategic deployment of physical barriers, or a wall. This is not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea. These are steel barriers in high-priority locations." — remarks Saturday.
TRUMP: "These barriers are made of steel, have see-through visibility, which is very important. ... We do not need 2,000 miles of concrete wall from sea to shining sea. We never did. We never proposed that. We never wanted that, because we have barriers at the border where natural structures are as good as anything that we can build." — remarks Friday in Rose Garden.
I see our fake guardians of the forest went for a plane ride over the Pioneer, Sapphire and Anaconda ranges recently. These spoiled, rich, yup…
WASHINGTON — An internal government watchdog says the Environmental Protection Agency violated federal spending laws when purchasing a $43,000 soundproof privacy booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt to make private phone calls in his office.
If not for a one-year delay put in place by Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) methane was…
WASHINGTON — Geographic and physical challenges — including the Rio Grande and threatened wildlife — will make it difficult to build the "big, beautiful wall" that President Donald Trump has promised on the U.S.-Mexico border, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON – Republican congressional leaders ardently want conservative members of the House to not force a vote on impeaching the IRS commis…
After Antoinette Arkinson tore a ligament in her knee, her doctor recommended surgery. But despite treaties mandating health care be provided …
My daughter is a Navy diver, my son-in-law is an active-duty Navy SEAL, and I spent 23 years as a Navy SEAL, leading countless young men throu…
Government cutbacks have slowed mail delivery across Montana, according to a federal report issued Tuesday.
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon broke the law when it swapped Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner in Afghanistan for five years, for five Taliban le…
Temporary directors are currently in charge of four of the Indian Health Service’s 12 regional offices, including in Billings, which U.S. Sen.…
For the past several years, Chris Bonner has had a waiting list of 40 to 50 people who want to buy .22-caliber ammunition but can’t find it anywhere.