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Sponsor a senior citizen with Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging

Saturday, April 4

Clearfield, PA - Due to many precautionary measures implemented recently to halt the spread of COVID-19, area seniors have been impacted. Many are now placed at nutritional risk, experiencing lag time in getting prescriptions, unable... Read More.

TSA bans employees from using TikTok to create content for the agency

Tuesday, February 25

(NEW YORK) -- The Transportation Security Administration has banned its employees from using TikTok to create content for the agency after facing pressure from lawmakers over the social media platform's ties to... Read More.

‘Living in squalor’: Watchdog agency slams New York City homeless placement program

Thursday, December 5

(NEW YORK) -- New York City's own inspector general ripped a controversial city program intended to help curb homelessness after a probe showed it left needy families "living in squalor under the... Read More.

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MLBPA: Braves GM’s free agency comments ‘egregious’

Wednesday, November 6

(NEW YORK) -- The Major League Baseball Players Association is launching an investigation into possible collusion among MLB teams as free agency begins.A press release from the MLBPA... Read More.

Parents should not use inclined sleepers, federal agency warns, citing 73 infant deaths since 2005

Saturday, November 2

(NEW YORK) -- Federal authorities are urging parents and caretakers not to use inclined sleep products for infants, citing dozens of deaths and evidence leading them to conclude that certain sleepers "do... Read More.

FDA ‘should have acted sooner’ on e-cigarettes, agency chief says

Wednesday, September 25

(WASHINGTON) -- The head of the agency that regulates tobacco products said Wednesday during questioning on Capitol Hill that the federal government should have acted sooner on e-cigarettes.Ned Sharpless, acting commissioner of... Read More.

Environmental Protection Agency wants to phase out animal testing by 2035

Thursday, September 12

(WASHINGTON) -- The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to phase out the use of animal testing to determine whether chemicals are safe, setting the goal of eliminating it completely in 16 years.The... Read More.

NOAA inspector general opens probe into agency statement backing Trump, firing threats

Wednesday, September 11

(WASHINGTON) -- The circumstances surrounding an unsigned NOAA statement on Friday backing President Donald Trump on Hurricane Dorian, including reported threats of firings, are now “matters under review” by the Commerce Department’s... Read More.

NOAA’s chief scientist wants probe into agency backing of Trump on Dorian

Monday, September 9

(WASHINGTON) -- NOAA’s acting chief scientist, in an internal email obtained by ABC News on Monday, informed staff he wants to launch an investigation into potential policy violations involving a NOAA statement... Read More.

DHS chief denied mistreatment of migrants while his own agency found otherwise

Wednesday, July 3

(WASHINGTON) -- Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan stood before news cameras and reporters last Friday and unequivocally denounced allegations of mistreatment and neglect of children at a U.S. Border Patrol facility... Read More.