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ISPs can see the domains and IP addresses you contact unless you take extra measures beyond using DuckDuckGo: DuckDuckGo stops its own search engine from logging your queries, but it does not encrypt ...
A U.S. passport card’s direct government charge is $30 for adults (age 16 and over) and $15 for minors (under 16) when handled as the Department of State application fee, and a separate $35 acceptance...
The landscape for 2026 shows different federal employee groups on separate tracks: most civilian GS/SES workers face either a small (proposed 1%) or no across‑the‑board base pay change depending on th...
USPS employees are generally paid and continue working during a federal government shutdown because the Postal Service operates with largely self-generated revenue and is not an appropriated agency. M...
USPS passport acceptance requires two separate payments: the U.S. Department of State application fee and a facility “acceptance” or execution fee collected by the acceptance facility; accepted instru...
If the 2025 Continuing Resolution (CR) expires without Congress passing new appropriations, the federal government will face a that can trigger a partial government shutdown, halting non-essential ope...
U.S. reporting and government releases show cartels currently move methamphetamine and fentanyl into the United States using a wide mix of routes — ports of entry (passenger vehicles, commercial cargo...
Lipomax’s official sales sites claim a 60‑day or 40‑day money‑back guarantee and instruct customers to "write to us" or use listed support contacts for refunds . Yet multiple consumer complaints and s...
Registered-agent services are legitimate, state‑required contacts for corporations and LLCs, but reporting and complaints show the industry can be misused to obscure ownership, overcharge customers, o...
Washington’s attorney general has brought dozens of suits against the federal government challenging policies across mail delivery, environmental rules, immigration-related funding conditions, federal...
Regular overtime for hourly postal employees in 2025 is paid at time-and-a-half — i.e., 1.5 times the employee’s hourly rate for overtime hours — while certain “penalty overtime” provisions in collect...
Available reporting shows no federally approved, automatic “Dec. 2025 stimulus check” for all Americans; proposals for a tariff-funded $1,000–$2,000 “tariff dividend” were discussed politically but ha...
Denver residents summoned for jury duty receive mailed summonses only and should not expect phone calls; questions and rescheduling go through the Jury Commissioner (303-606-2305 or denverjury@judicia...
The core pattern across contingency plans and reporting is clear: , while discretionary programs tied to annual appropriations pause or slow. Services consistently identified as continuing include the...
The U.S. Postal Service’s career employees and rural letter carriers continue to work and receive pay during a federal government shutdown because the USPS operates as an independent, not reliant on a...
The core claim across sources is that ; key examples repeated across the materials include the U.S. Postal Service, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, veterans’ health care, and essential public safe...
The 2025 federal government shutdown has forced widespread furloughs and operational suspensions across many agencies, with estimates of roughly , and critical programs such as SNAP facing imminent pa...
Federal agencies and positions exempt from a shutdown fall into two main buckets: operations funded outside annual appropriations (like the U.S. Postal Service and certain benefit programs) and whose ...
Internet Service Providers (ISPs can see connection metadata like when you connect and to which IP addresses; they cannot read Tor-encrypted payloads, but available sources do not discuss Tor or ISP v...
The evidence shows that career employees of the U.S. Postal Service continue to receive regular paychecks during a federal government shutdown because the USPS operates as an independent, self-funded ...