Patent Office Backlog Reduction Efforts Risk Examiner Retention
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is unlikely to cut its patent backlog to under 599,000 applications before 2031 unless patent examiner...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is unlikely to cut its patent backlog to under 599,000 applications before 2031 unless patent examiner...
Thirty-six of 37 State Department notifications to Congress about using legal exemptions to fund democracy assistance and other restricted aid did not...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recovered less than half of the $25.8 billion it spent on Superfund cleanup costs at nonfederal National...
Companies that provide video relay service and relay services for incarcerated people now face new reporting and registration requirements, which the...
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) can now decline or hold requests for arbitration panels from unions and employers when providing the...
Congress is returning today, Nov. 9 for a lame duck session that may take up a continuing resolution to fund the government and a possible impeachment of Pete Hegseth, NPR reported. Democrats and a Republican are among the lawmakers reacting. Two clocks are running at once. Roll Call reported the House is expected to consider a resolution to impeach Hegseth in the session's first week, and the Congress.gov record for H.R. 6500 lists the current continuing resolution as running through Dec. 11. CNBC reported that funding, the debt limit and Hegseth are among the matters facing lawmakers.…
The chart above shows where super PACs and party committees are investing their money to try to shore up wins for their parties. It is dynamic and changes...
The Ethiopia conflict is spreading, and the country may be heading toward war with Eritrea, according to a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report.
The final rule is not routine: It implements Executive Order 14279, the Education Department received 7,051 public comments, and Community College Daily...
Pharmacies that submit false registration information to the Drug Enforcement Administration are subject to fines under the federal criminal fine provisions...
The Commerce Department has closed the General category fishery to large Atlantic bluefin tuna, requiring affected permit holders to stop retaining them...
The direct final rule the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published Oct. 22 codifies its approval of Nevada's revised underground storage tank program...
Prevent Child Abuse America hired Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates LLC to lobby on Health Issues, according to a new client registration signed Nov. 5....
National Whistleblower Center hired Attention Studio to lobby, according to a new client registration signed Nov. 5. The registration lists two issue areas:...
Airports and airlines would face reduced turnback amounts and revised rules on which projects passenger facility charges can pay for under a new...
Applicants for federal education grants and the state and local agencies that run them would see four sets of grant priorities rewritten, under changes the...
Geostationary satellite operators in the United States and the broadband satellite systems that share spectrum with them will work from a revised set of...
The D.C. Public Charter School Board (PCSB) denied both applications for new charters it received over the past five years, according to District of...
Foreign importers of record must use a security-validated customs broker or be validated themselves, and brokers must verify their clients' U.S. status, as...
Three of the four Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entities that inspect immigration detention facilities changed how often they inspected, or stopped...
theGROUP DC LLC filed a new-client registration for Teachstone Inc., signed Nov. 6, adding a firm to education lobbying that Teachstone has reported since...
Military construction and family housing programs are running on a continuing resolution set to expire Dec. 11, with no final fiscal 2027 funding level in...
A 36% cap on short-term, small-dollar loan rates may shrink the supply of those loans if the cap does not cover lenders' funding costs, according to a new...