The offer was extended to 45,000 people as part of the agency’s effort to reduce operating costs.

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Postal Service Offers Buyouts to Mail Handlers

When Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan appeared before a Senate committee investigating the Colombia prostitution scandal, he cited an employee survey and said that nearly 60 percent of the agency’s workers indicated they would report unethical behavior. Read full article > >

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Not everyone is comfortable reporting unethical behavior, survey indicates

A London patient is confirmed as having rabies after being bitten by a dog in South Asia, the Health Protection Agency says.

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Rabies case confirmed in London

The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t know how many identity thieves are filing fraudulent tax returns, and the agency risks issuing approximately $26 billion in fraudulent tax refunds tied to identity theft in the next five years, a watchdog told lawmakers Tuesday. Read full article > >

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IRS may issue $26 billion in fraudulent tax refunds, watchdog tells Congress

The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-director Leon Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy inside the CIA’s Book of Honor : Barbara Annette Robbins, who had volunteered to go to Saigon during the Vietnam War and died in a 1965 car bombing at the U.S. Embassy. Read full article > >

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Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death

Two farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month's discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.

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2 farms quarantined in mad cow inquiry

The European Space Agency (Esa) is to mount a billion-euro mission to Jupiter and its icy moons.

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More than 200 cases of measles are confirmed on Merseyside in the largest outbreak in the area since 1988, the Health Protection Agency says.

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Measles outbreak tops 200 cases

The legislation, which differs from a House version, would allow the agency to study ending Saturday deliveries in two years and charge for a broader range of services.

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Senate Passes Bill to Overhaul Postal Service

The British Olympic Association believes it will lose its court battle with World Anti-Doping Agency, BBC Sport understands.

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BOA expects defeat on drugs rule

In February, President Obama signed into law a reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that requires the agency — on a fairly rapid schedule — to write rules opening U.S. airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles. This puts the FAA at the center of a potentially dramatic set of policy changes that stand to usher in a long list of direct and indirect benefits. But the FAA is not a privacy agency. And although real privacy concerns have arisen about these aircraft, asking the agency to take on the role of privacy czar for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would be a mistake. Read full article > >

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Regulating domestic drones on a deadline

The General Services Administration has demanded that three people tied to the lavish October 2010 Las Vegas conference repay more than $5,500 in expenses tied to the conference. In letters dated April 13, the agency told Robert A. Peck, Jeffrey E. Neely and Robert Shepard to repay expenses for a party they held during the conference at the M Resort. Peck is former head of GSA’s Public Buildings Service; Neely is a former top official in the agency’s western region; and Shepard served as Neely’s chief of staff. Peck resigned three weeks ago when word of the scandal first broke, while Neely and Shepard remain on administrative leave. Read full article > >

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GSA demands that three officials repay some conference expenses

Here’s what the Loop’s reading Monday morning: Sorry, Dad — Mitt Romney has plans to nix the agency his father once led. The former Massachusetts governor said at a private fundraiser that he would eliminate some agencies and combine others — and he singled out Housing and Urban Development — which his father once headed — for elimination, our colleague Rachel Weiner reports . Read full article > >

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Romney might nix HUD; Clinton lets her hair down; and a working woman flashback (read-this roundup)

Engineers are battling to save the European Space Agency’s flagship Earth observation mission – the eight-tonne Envisat.

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Battle to save flagship satellite

The Government Services Administration has suspended an employee award program cited by congressional investigators for exceeding spending limits, the acting head of the agency said Tuesday.

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GSA acts to halt wasteful spending