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Ukraine Announces Arrests Targeting Corruption in Military Procurement

The arrests came days after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s U-turn on an effort to neuter anticorruption agencies.

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A protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, last week against legislation stripping the independence of anti-corruption agencies.
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FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’, Colleagues Said

Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.

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Search and rescue personnel near the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 8 after catastrophic flooding.
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U.S. Office of Personnel Management Shedding a Third of Its Staff

More than 750 workers have resigned with incentives, and more than 150 others have resigned without. The agency has also laid off 129 people.

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The headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management in February.
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