When a backlog becomes overloaded, execution collapses. The backlog stops being a planning tool and becomes a liability that ...

The Office of Personnel Management reported a slight increase in the backlog of pending federal employee retirement claims in October, though still a marked improvement from the same period last year.

A massive backlog of police conduct complaints against Minneapolis officers has finally been cleared, the city announced Monday. It comes after 16 months of focused efforts by the city’s Office of ...

Last year, I met Vicki Crawford. She is a remarkable woman whose resilience and determination in the teeth of endless court delays had helped convict Melvyn Little, the man who sexually abused her as ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee about the proposed ...

Oregon Senate lawmakers called in officials from the state Department of Education this week to explain why the agency is struggling to clear a backlog of school discrimination complaints despite the ...

The Department of Education (ED) has been forced to double back on its March 2025 decision to lay off hundreds of civil rights employees. In December 2025, the agency called back employees who worked ...

CEO William Ballhaus stated that "we delivered Q2 results that were ahead of our expectations with solid year-over-year growth in backlog, revenue and adjusted EBITDA, and robust free cash flow." He ...

As the Colorado Bureau of Investigation works to reduce its backlog of untested sexual assault evidence and increase turnaround times, state lawmakers are considering whether the effort needs an ...

While Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is being lambasted by GOP critics for efforts to whittle down a backlog of criminal cases, records show she is following the example of another top ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is grappling with a mounting backlog of school and college discrimination cases, prompting an unusual request from ...