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WASHINGTON — A U.S. contractor was killed and another contractor and five U.S. service members were injured when a self-destructing drone struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said in a statement. U.S. intelligence analysts concluded that the drone was of “Iranian origin,” according to the Pentagon […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Monday said the White House could not require federal contractors to ensure that their workers are vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of government contracts. The U.S. government has contracts with thousands of companies, and courts have said the issue could affect up to 20% […]
Comment on this story Comment Major web browsers moved Wednesday to stop using a mysterious software company that certified websites were secure, three weeks after The Washington Post reported its connections to a U.S. military contractor. Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge said they would stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor Systems that vouched for . […]
TRENTON, NJ -The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Trenton roofing contractor with a history of exposing workers to potentially deadly falls, after inspections at three worksites where the employer again intentionally failed to protect workers from falls as they installed roofs in Mahwah, Upper Saddle River, and River […]
Leonard Glenn Francis – known as ‘Fat Leonard’ – had pleaded guilty in a $35m bribery case involving US Navy officials. United States law enforcement agencies have offered a $40,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of a Malaysian defence contractor who has fled ahead of sentencing in one of the largest bribery […]
Devon Henry, whose company was hired to meticulously dismantle Confederate monuments across the country, is giving new meaning to the Confederate flag’s 13 stars with the launch of the “13 Stars” NFT Collection to raise $13 million for social causes. In July of 2020, Devon said yes to a job that no other contractor had […]
Perth-based mining contractor Byrnecut, already under scrutiny for two employee fatalities in Australia, is now at the centre of an international investigation after eight workers died in a West African mine disaster. Key points: Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister has blamed “irresponsibility” from the mine managers for the disaster Both Byrnecut and the Canadian owner of […]
Russia’s assertion that President Biden’s son Hunter was “financing . . . biological laboratories in Ukraine” was based in truth, according to e-mails reviewed by The Post. A trove of e-mails on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — the existence of which was exclusively reported by The Post in October 2020 — found that he played a role in […]