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  "entity": "PersonnelNews",
  "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture",
  "domain": "personnelnews.com",
  "vertical": "Government & Civic",
  "count": 18,
  "generated_at": "2026-08-28T05:40:01.983Z",
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Unions: OPM’s suitability and performance management overhauls assert ‘plenary’ authority over federal firing",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/08/unions-opms-suitability-performance-management-overhauls-plenary-authority/415635/",
      "summary": "A coalition of labor groups sued the Trump administration Monday, arguing recent moves to centralize authority within the Office of Personnel Management and insert subjective criteria into employee evaluations amount to an end-run around the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:24:14 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/25/GettyImages_2197782545/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Agencies backfilled 20,600 employees who left government under the deferred resignation programs, analysis finds",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/08/agencies-backfilled-20600-employees-who-left-government-under-deferred-resignation-programs-analysis-finds/415631/",
      "summary": "The Office of Personnel Management disputed the findings and countered that the analysis also shows around 85% of the DRP separations were not replaced.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:48:43 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/25/082526_Getty_GovExec_OPM/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "EEOC votes to propose new rule stripping feds of hearing rights, class action complaints",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/08/eeoc-propose-new-rule-stripping-feds-hearing-rights-class-action-complaints/415675/",
      "summary": "Members of the public have just 30 days to digest and submit comments on a 130-page plan upending the process for alleging workplace discrimination at federal agencies.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:27:45 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/GettyImages_2284310381/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "NSA wants access to ‘all’ AI models, top official says",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/technology/2026/08/nsa-wants-access-all-ai-models-top-official-says/415677/",
      "summary": "The spy agency is taking a key role in the government’s new voluntary model-testing program, though its deputy director did not say which companies are participating.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:00:38 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/082726NSANG-1/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Want to retire at the end of 2026? Start planning now",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/08/want-retire-end-2026-start-planning-now/415671/",
      "summary": "OPM is still working through a sizable retirement backlog, and year-end retirees have plenty to sort out before they leave federal service.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/08272026retpl/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Data from Labor employees seeking disability accommodations impacted by 'internal incident'",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/08/data-labor-employees-seeking-disability-accommodations-impacted-internal-incident/415673/",
      "summary": "The Labor Department is telling employees about an “internal incident report” in which an individual sent employees' sensitive health information to their personal email address.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:01:25 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/08272026DOL/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "States, feds scramble to prevent more water cyberattacks",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/states-feds-scramble-prevent-more-water-cyberattacks/415670/",
      "summary": "In the weeks after nine states were hit, lawmakers at the federal and state levels have proposed new funding to harden infrastructure, but experts warned they remain vulnerable.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/20260827_Water_Vithun_Khamsong_via_Getty_Images/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Meta to pay 47 states up to $17.1B in landmark child safety settlement",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/digital-government/2026/08/meta-pay-47-states-171b-landmark-child-safety-settlement/415669/",
      "summary": "The company will only follow through on toughest new limits if TikTok, YouTube adopt similar rules.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/20260827_Meta_Derick_Hudson/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "White House to soon launch water provider cyber protection program",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/white-house-soon-launch-water-provider-cyber-protection-program/415667/",
      "summary": "The plans come as several states face water system intrusions from what some official suspect could be linked to Iran.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/082626WHNG/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Counties are where government has to show its work",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/people/2026/08/counties-are-where-government-has-show-its-work/415666/",
      "summary": "COMMENTARY | Counties build and run the machinery of public life under a budget that cannot hide the tradeoffs — and that is what equips them for government’s hardest choices.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/27/20260827_OpEd_Jon_PutmanSOPA_ImagesLightRocket_via_Getty_Images/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pushed out by the Trump administration, these ex-feds want to make agency firings simpler and fairer",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/08/pushed-out-trump-administration-these-ex-feds-want-make-agency-firings-simpler-and-fairer/415659/",
      "summary": "Across 12 cases that were analyzed for a new report on federal firing reform, it took an average 19 months for the underperforming employee to be removed or otherwise leave the position.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:59:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/26/082626_Getty_GovExec_Capitol/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Lawmakers call for watchdog review of DOT’s passenger privacy practices",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2026/08/lawmakers-watchdog-review-transportations-passenger-privacy-practices/415661/",
      "summary": "The Transportation Department “has never taken a single enforcement action related to privacy,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, said in a letter to the Government Accountability Office.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:21:44 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/26/082626TransportationNG-1/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "New toolkit aims to chip away at government hiring snags",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/workforce/2026/08/new-toolkit-aims-chip-away-government-hiring-snags/415655/",
      "summary": "Work for America has released new guidance on how state and local governments can better address and resolve common hiring painpoints.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:22:42 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/26/GettyImages_2160453939/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Snap decision: AG Sunday files lawsuit against social media giant over lack of teen safeguards",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/management/2026/08/snap-decision-ag-sunday-files-lawsuit-against-social-media-giant-over-lack-teen-safeguards/415642/",
      "summary": "The announcement on Tuesday against Snapchat follows the attorney general’s salvo against TikTok earlier this month",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/26/IMG_3540_headline/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Treasury sanctions Iranian hackers tied to critical infrastructure breaches",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/treasury-sanctions-iranian-hackers-tied-critical-infrastructure-breaches/415643/",
      "summary": "Four of the five people named in the cyber action were also charged last week in the Justice Department’s expanded Mabna Institute case.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/26/082526TreasuryNG/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Can an old dog teach an old man a new trick?",
      "url": "https://www.route-fifty.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/can-old-dog-teach-old-man-new-trick/415644/",
      "summary": "COMMENTARY | New tools should be an amplifier, not a replacement, for the work done by employees. AI should do the same, and be an upgrade to a working process.",
      "source": "route-fifty.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.route-fifty.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/26/20260826_OpEd_J_Studios/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "GSA's $13 billion fraud claim relies on cases predating task force",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/08/gsas-13-billion-fraud-claim-relies-cases-predating-task-force/415640/",
      "summary": "The settlements cited add up to just $117 million, and at least one case predates the Trump administration.",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/25/GSAfraudWT20260825-1/large.jpg"
    },
    {
      "title": "Politicizing government investments hurts all of us",
      "url": "https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/08/politicizing-government-investments-hurts-all-us/415586/",
      "summary": "COMMENTARY | What happens when political appointees, rather than career experts, get the final say over where federal dollars go?",
      "source": "govexec.com",
      "published": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0400",
      "image": "https://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/cd/2026/08/23/08232026grantmaking/large.jpg"
    }
  ]
}