Former federal ethics officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations are asking the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. In a letter obtained by CBS News, ethics officials who worked in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations urged a formal review of interim …
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US safety regulators launched a probe into Tesla self-driving cars, affecting around 2.9 million vehicles, after reports emerged of vehicles running through red lights, veering into wrong lanes, and crashing in some instances. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in a filing that it is looking into 58 cases in which Teslas reportedly violated traffic safety laws while …
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), Washington, D.C.’s leading nonpartisan budget watchdog, has sharply criticized the recent government shutdown as “pointless and wasteful” while unveiling the staggering $1.8 trillion federal deficit for the fiscal year 2025. This fiscal gap, reported by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in its Monthly Budget Review, reflects ongoing concerns about the nation’s fiscal …
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The Department of Labor’s internal watchdog is launching a review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) approach to collecting and reporting economic data. Laura Nicolosi, assistant inspector general for audit in the Labor’s Department’s Office of Inspector General, said in a September 10 letter to acting BLS commissioner William Wiatrowski that the watchdog will examine how the statistics bureau …
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The US Labor Department’s internal watchdog has launched an investigation into how it gathers jobs and inflation data after intense White House criticism of the agency. The office of the Labor Department’s inspector general said it had launched a probe to look at the “challenges” the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) faces gathering and updating the information. The move comes …
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Erin Scott/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Labor Department’s internal watchdog said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into how jobs and inflation data is collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The probe by the department’s Office of Inspector General comes as BLS is under pressure from the Trump administration, which has pointed to recent downward revisions to employment data …
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The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been attributed to abuse of a previously unknown vulnerable driver associated with WatchDog Anti-malware as part of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack aimed at disarming security solutions installed on compromised hosts. The vulnerable driver in question is “amsdk.sys” (version 1.0.600), a 64-bit, validly signed Windows kernel device driver that’s …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped an investigation into a buy now, pay later company with close ties to President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., saying the investigation was conducted in a biased manner and based off politics. The CFPB on Tuesday notified Credova Financial, a subsidiary of Public Square Holdings, where Trump Jr. is …
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Demand for Labubu bag charms skyrockets What’s a Labubu? The tiny toy turning into a big fashion statement 01:53 Labubu dolls are so popular that they’ve inspired knockoffs — dubbed Lafufus, for fake Labubus — that can endanger kids, according to federal regulators The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Monday issued an “urgent safety warning” that said the phony …
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