Author: Ethan Johnson
If your government agency awards grants, you probably know about the Federal Audit Clearinghouse. That is where the so-called single audit takes place. A single audit of non-federal grants or expenditures by grant recipients is required by law. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found several problems with the overall process for clearinghouses operated by the General Services Administration. Government agencies do not have the data needed to conduct a single audit. For more information, Tom Temin and Federal Drive We spoke with Jim Dalkin, GAO's Director of Financial Management and Assurance.tom temin If your government agency awards grants, you probably…
Author: Senator Joni Ernst Published in the Washington Examiner Public servants going to work shouldn't make headlines. But recently it has happened. Bureaucrats from the Ministry of Labor gathered together. At work protested their “right to work remotely” earlier this year. And if that wasn't rich enough, the event took place outside the federal building named after John F. Kennedy, a president who inspired the nation with his call to public service. Ta. Think about what you can do for your country. ” In President Joe Biden's backward world, President Kennedy's call has been reversed. Even the best-performing federal agencies…
The deal still requires approval from factions of all four parties. And the choice of a new prime minister could pose some last-minute difficulties. The announcement ended nearly six months of rocky talks between the four parties, which at one point saw the NSC leader walk out and a public spat on social media that riveted the Dutch public. . But Mr Wilders, the shock winner of last year's election, appears to have finally been able to reach a deal by making some concessions, including agreeing not to become prime minister. Mr Wilders' victory is widely seen as a harbinger…
Spirit Airlines CEO slams 'ignorant government', says airline industry is a 'rigged game' for survivalspirit airlines (NYSE:SAVE) was once the target of a fierce bidding war between two rival companies. frontier group (NASDAQ:ULCC) and jet blue airlines (NASDAQ:JBLU). Less than two years after JetBlue successfully beat out Frontier with a deal that valued Spirit at $34.15 per share, Spirit's stock price plummeted to less than $4 per share.The drop in stock prices was largely due to the Biden administration blocking a deal with JetBlue, arguing that customers who had benefited from Spirit's low fares would be hurt by the merger.Do…
Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters Security guards transport Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in a car after the May 15, 2024 shooting in Handlova. CNN — Slovakia's Prime Minister Roberto Fico was shot after a government meeting and is being treated in hospital, the country's state news agency reported on Wednesday. According to TASR news agency, several shots were fired at Fico. The prime minister's condition was not immediately known, and Slovakia's emergency medical service said it had dispatched a helicopter ambulance to the scene. The town of Handlova, where the shooting occurred, is about two hours' drive from the capital Bratislava. The…
The government has provided guidance to help artificial intelligence (AI) developers improve the cyber security of their AI models. The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the measures aimed at developers will establish a global standard for protecting AI models from hacking. The government hopes the code will help drive business innovation and economic growth across the country, and form the basis for future global standards. Rosamund Powell, a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, said: “AI systems come with a wide range of cybersecurity risks that often go unaddressed as developers rush to introduce new capabilities.…
Content creators of the popular social media platform TikTok have filed legal action against the US government. The creators' move is in response to a new federal law that forces Chinese owner ByteDance to sell its assets to a US-based company or face a ban from entering the US. It is. TikTok creators take legal action A potential ban on TikTok could have significant financial implications for social media content creators. In some cases, these creators generate millions of dollars of wealth annually and have vibrant community groups. The news was first reported by Reuters, which received a copy of…
After the city government drew up a plan to hire 20 people this year, the city's human resources director connected it to Balancer, a website run by the government of North Macedonia, a Balkan country.A few seconds later, he received a chart with the required ethnic breakdown for the job. Sixteen people were Albanian, three were Macedonian and one was Roma.Computer-generated quotas for different community sizes in Tetovo, a city in northwestern Albania with a large ethnic Albanian population, are among the world's most One of the most comprehensive and rigorous mathematical government programs.It is also a deep-rooted controversy. Critics…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called for a significant increase in government research funding for artificial intelligence as they debated new legal safeguards.Generative AI, which can create text, photos, and videos in response to free-form prompts, is both exciting and potentially catastrophic by making some jobs obsolete, upending elections, and overwhelming humans. This raises concerns that there may be.Schumer, along with Republicans Mike Rounds and Todd Young and Democrat Martin Heinrich, will create a roadmap that leverages expert opinion to solve thorny problems arising from rapid advances in AI.…
A logo with the word “Boeing” painted on the hall of the Boeing Distribution Center. Georg Wendt/DPAAircraft maker Boeing violated the terms of a U.S. agreement that previously shielded the company from prosecution following two passenger plane crashes, the U.S. Department of Justice said.Court documents filed Tuesday say Boeing did not implement a program to prevent violations of U.S. fraud laws as agreed. The government says it has not yet decided how to proceed with this issue.Boeing had until June 13 to receive an official response. In its initial response on Tuesday, the company stressed that its own assessment shows…