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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is pressing the Labor Department for answers about delays in processing accommodation requests for its employees with disabilities and medical conditions. Labor Department employees told Government Executive last month that the agency is facing a backlog of hundreds of reasonable accommodation requests, and that they have waited months or longer for the agency to address their cases. Faced with this backlog, the department is looking to roll out artificial intelligence tools to help triage its workload. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., spearheaded a letter signed by 40 of their House colleagues, asking acting Labor…

A dead hang looks simple. You hold a bar with straight arms, keep your body under control, and wait to see when your grip gives out. Yet the test can reveal far more than forearm endurance. It challenges your hands, wrists, upper back, shoulders, trunk, and ability to tolerate your own body weight. It also gives you a useful answer to a question many people have after watching someone hold a bar for what seems like forever: how do I compare? There is one important catch. There is no single international dead hang database that can accurately place every adult…

A group of National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees on Thursday challenged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s decision last month to strip them of class-action status in a long-running discrimination case, accusing the commission’s Republican majority of committing “flagrant distortions” of the facts and law.In 2013, NASA workers filed a class action complaint with EEOC, alleging that the agency’s performance appraisal system systematically advantaged white employees and disadvantaged Black and Asian-American workers. Due to delays on EEOC’s part, an administrative judge did not certify the class until 2022, over NASA’s objection.But in a decision last month, the Republican majority atop…

The group has gone four years without naming a leader. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it reached for the founder’s son instead. A man in a white turban appears sitting against a cracked mud wall, a rifle beside him. Twenty-five years ago, that image would have immediately called to mind Osama bin Laden. But now it’s his long presumed dead son, Hamza—the star of a 52-minute video released by al-Qaeda’s As-Sahab Media Foundation to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Unlike previous As-Sahab productions, this video had no English translation, suggesting that its primary audience was…

Soldiers in units participating in the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness program returned to duty faster after musculoskeletal injuries than troops not involved in the program, according to a study published this week.The study found that soldiers in brigades with the program spent 5.9% less time on limited duty after an injury.The Army started implementing the fitness program — which is in some ways similar to methods used in other high-level athletics — in 2021. More than 50 brigades were scheduled to receive physical therapists, athletic trainers, dietitians, occupational therapists and strength and conditioning coaches. The first brigades were slated…

Home › UFC News › Dana White: Tom Aspinall Vacates Title, but Ciryl Gane Is Not UFC’s New Undisputed Champ Dana White says Ciryl Gane will not be handed the undisputed UFC heavyweight championship after Tom Aspinall vacated the belt. Gane remains interim champion and will fight for the vacant title “very soon,” though the UFC has not named an opponent or date. Ciryl Gane will need one more win before he can call himself UFC heavyweight champion. Dana White addressed the division’s sudden change during an interview with Sportsnet’s Diana Belbita after Tom Aspinall relinquished the undisputed title. Asked…

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is seeking to exhume and identify the remains of the Korean War service member buried as one of the Unknowns next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The reason: advances in DNA technology. During a Sept. 1 webinar, Kelly McKeague, the director of the DPAA, told Stars and Stripes that “We will petition Arlington National Cemetery to disinter the remains at the Tomb of the Unknown simply because the probability is high that we will be able to identify that unknown,” he said. According to McKeague, the agency now possesses…

Khamzat Chimaev actually had to go until the second period to get a victory but the result was still the same as the former UFC champion dominated Gilbert Burns in the RAF 13 co-main event.While he did give up a couple of takedowns, Chimaev never slowed down and he kept racking up the points until the score got to 15-4, which ended the match as the Chechen mauler moved to 3-0 in RAF. Now Chimaev is looking to add some gold to his resume.“Of course, why not? He has the belt,” Chimaev said about facing RAF crossover champion Colby Covington…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will get new defenses against small drones in coming weeks, part of a “whole-of-government” effort to better protect the nation’s spaceports as the White House pushes for hundreds more launches per year.The new gear will come from Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the Pentagon’s counterdrone task force, Space Force Col. Brian Chatman told Defense One on the sidelines of the annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference here. Chatman commands Space Launch Delta 45, which oversees all East Coast launch missions.Cape Canaveral is “top of their list” for “investing in additional capability,” Chatman…

Here are some of the federal government’s top recent personnel changes, brought to you by our partners at Leadership Connect: Jeremy G. Wiggins has a new position as Assistant Secretary (Designate) at Assistant Secretary for International Trade and Development, Office of International Affairs [IA], United States Department of the Treasury [TREAS]Presidential Appointment with Senate Confirmation (PAS) Recently: Senior Advisor at Office of International Affairs, Office of the Deputy Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury (2025 – 2025) Robert B. “Bob” Stebbins has a new position as General Counsel (Designate) at Office of General Counsel [GC], Office of the Deputy…