(NEXSTAR) – Before the frenzy of holiday shopping and shipping, mail carriers are taking a break this week. The United States Postal Service is shutting down nearly all operations to celebrate ...

The email accounts of furloughed government workers had been commandeered to send partisan attacks against Democrats, a move that the ruling said had “added insult to injury.” By Chris Cameron ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that the partisan language added to out-of-office email messages of furloughed Education Department employees violates their First Amendment rights. The ruling is in ...

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A former postal worker in Knoxville has been arrested after deputies say they found nearly $1 million worth of stolen checks inside his car. But local authorities say there's a mail ...

Some staffers say their replies were hijacked to make a political point. The top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee is urging Republicans to hold a hearing on whether the Trump ...

A federal workers union has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for altering U.S. Department of Education employees’ out-of-office email messages to include partisan language about a ...

Staffers with the Small Business Administration who were placed on furlough set up automatic response emails pinning blame on Democrats for the shutdown, which they said already has affected hundreds ...

OMB encouraged federal employees to blame "Democrat Senators" for the shutdown. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) encouraged federal employees across the government -- including at the ...

At this point, you sort of expect Donald Trump’s big-picture assaults on free speech, foreigners, and the rule of law. (Sometimes, as in the case of the new outright attack on US higher ed, all three ...

On Wednesday, the first day of the US government shutdown, employees at the Department of Education (DOE) set their automatic out-of-office email responses to inform recipients that they would be ...

The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats. By Eileen Sullivan and Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington Some furloughed ...