4/22 - CDC Announces Important Advances in Protecting Americans from Heat (CDC; direct to Heat and Your Health website; see also, NOAA announcement)
4/22 - The Biden-Harris Administration Issues New Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Under HIPAA (HHS; direct to factsheet; see also, Senate Finance chair statement)
4/22 - Secretary Antony J. Blinken On the 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (State; direct to reports page; see also, Senate Foreign Affairs chair statement)
4/23 - Census Bureau Releases 2022 Congressional Election Voting Report (Census; direct to report)
4/23 - Homeland Security Investigations Launches HSI.gov (DHS; direct to website)
4/23 - Justice Department Reaches Civil Settlement with Victims Abused by Lawrence Nassar (DOJ; see also, 2021 DOJ OIG report)
4/23 - EPA Announces Online Collection of Environmental Justice Resources (EPA; direct to website)
4/23 - FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (FTC; see also, factsheet)
4/23 - HHS Finalizes Rule to Strengthen Services and Protections for Unaccompanied Children in Its Care (HHS)
4/23 - Biden-Harris Administration Releases National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and First-Ever Federal Action Plan (HHS; direct to website)
4/24 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Ancillary Service Fees (DOT; see also, Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule to Protect Consumers from Surprise Airline Junk Fees | junk fees factsheet | WH factsheet)
4/24 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces New School Meal Standards to Strengthen Child Nutrition (FNS; direct to info page)
4/24 - SEC Staff Publishes New [updated quarterly] Registered Fund Statistics Report (SEC; direct to report page)
4/25 - Largest Year-to-Year Increase in Over 20 Years for Public School Spending Per Pupil (Census; direct to data page)
4/25 - DoD Releases the Calendar Year 2022 Annual Report on Civilian Casualties in Connection With U.S. Military Operations (DOD; direct to report)
4/25 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Transmission Permitting Rule and Latest Investments To Accelerate the Build Out of a Resilient, Reliable, Modernized Electric Grid (DOE; see also, WH factsheet)
4/25 - Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Suite of Standards to Reduce Pollution from Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants (EPA)
4/25 - FCC Restores Net Neutrality (FCC; see also, 4/24 Five Facts About Net Neutrality Protections)
4/25 - Transitioning to a Fully Digital Government (NARA)
4/25 - Digest State Dashboard provides state-level data on key education statistics (NCES; direct to website)
4/25 - Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: Cataloging (NLM; direct to exhibit website)
4/25 - USTR Releases 2024 Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement (USTR; direct to report)
4/26 - US Department of Labor finalizes farmworker protection rule (DOL)
4/26 - NIDIS Releases 2023 Annual Report (NOAA; direct to report)
4/26 - GSA launches Open Government Federal Advisory Committee to advise on governmentwide transparency efforts (GSA; direct to FR notice)
4/26 - IRS Direct File Pilot Exceeds Usage Goal, Receiving Positive User Ratings and Saving Taxpayers Money (Treas)
4/22 - EMTALA Emergency Abortion Care Litigation Over Idaho’s Abortion Restriction Heads to the Supreme Court (CRS)
4/22 - Biometric Identification Technologies: Considerations to Address Information Gaps and Other Stakeholder Concerns (GAO)
4/23 - TikTok: Proposed Legislation and Implications (CRS)
4/24 - Information Technology Spending in the President’s Budget Submission for FY2025: In Brief (CRS)
4/22 - American Climate Corps website launched (ACC)
4/22 - Agencies’ headquarters in DC remained ‘nearly empty’ in 2023, real-estate board finds (via Federal News Network, with link to source document)
4/22 - Biden signs extension of controversial spying program into 2026 (via NextGov, with links to source documents)
4/23 - Senate Passes Bill That Could Ban TikTok In The U.S., Sends To Biden (via HuffPost)
4/24 - Senators call on postal board to abandon DeJoy’s USPS reforms (via GovExec, with links to source documents)
4/24 - Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case (via NYT, with source document)
4/25 - As bird flu spreads in cows, fractured U.S. response has echoes of early covid (via Washington Post; see also, USDA Actions to Protect Livestock Health From Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza)
4/26 - Planning for potential presidential transition underway as Biden administration kicks it off (via AP; see also, GSA 2024 transition website)
4/26 - Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People (via NYT, with link to source document; see also, HHS news release)
Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.
4/20 - H.R.7888, Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act - reauthorizes Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for five years and makes changes to FISA
4/24 - H.R.815, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes – provides FY2024 supplemental appropriations to several federal agencies for assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Also requires several actions to address the trafficking of fentanyl.
Classified documents search warrant/indictment:
4/23 - Trump co-defendant in classified documents case was told he’d be pardoned in a second term, notes in FBI interview say (via CNN; see also, document 470 Exhibit D at CourtListener)
2020 election/January 6 indictment:
4/25 - US supreme court eyes returning Trump immunity claim to lower court after arguments (via The Guardian)
4/26 - Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction (via NYT)
2020 election/Georgia indictment:
Docket Watch: Trump Prosecuted in Fulton County (via Lawfare; provides access to documents)
4/24 - Trump asks judge in Georgia election case to dismiss 2 more counts against him (via ABC News)
NY criminal trial (Stormy Daniels payoff):
Daily court transcripts (unable to capture in IA) and other court documents
4/22 - ‘Election Fraud, Pure and Simple’: Trump’s Prosecutors Move Beyond Stormy Daniels in Wide-Lens Trial Opening (via Just Security)
4/26 - Secrets, lies and payoffs laid bare in Week 1 of Trump trial testimony (via WaPo)