nineteen federalacademies run by the UnitedStatesfederal government. Five are UnitedStates service academies: UnitedStates Military Academy, also known...
The UnitedStates service academies, also known as UnitedStates military academies, are federalacademies for the undergraduate education and training...
definitions of an agency of the federal government of the UnitedStates are varied, and even contradictory. The official UnitedStates Government Manual offers...
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the UnitedStates. It was created...
The federal government of the UnitedStates empowers a wide range of federal law enforcement agencies (informally known as the "Feds") to maintain law...
The UnitedStates has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property...
service academies and educates cadets for commissioning into the UnitedStates Army. Candidates for admission must apply directly to the academy and receive...
by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, edited by Greg Duncan and Suzanne Le Menestrel, National Academies Press, 596 pp., free...
From October 1 to October 17, 2013, the UnitedStatesfederal government entered a shutdown and curtailed most routine operations because neither legislation...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a UnitedStates nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences,...
The UnitedStates Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency in the UnitedStates. The Marshals Service serves as the enforcement and...
Naval Academy is the second oldest of the five U.S. service academies and it educates midshipmen for service in the officer corps of the UnitedStates Navy...
operates one federal service academy and administers a Grant-In-Aid Program for six state-operated maritime academies: Students at these academies can graduate...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a UnitedStatesfederal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice that operates U.S. federal prisons...
The UnitedStates Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA or Kings Point) is a UnitedStates service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen...
a federation of 50 states, a federal capital district (Washington, D.C.), and 326 Indian reservations. Outside the union of states, it asserts sovereignty...
to four of the Federal Service Academies (U.S. Military Academy; U.S. Naval Academy; U.S. Air Force Academy; U.S. Coast Guard Academy) are members of...
The UnitedStates Merchant Marine is an organization composed of UnitedStates civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels...
the officer corps of the UnitedStates Air Force and UnitedStates Space Force. It is the youngest of the five service academies, having graduated its first...
the UnitedStates, federalism is the constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the UnitedStates. Since...
The following is a list of people executed by the UnitedStatesfederal government. Sixteen executions (none of them military) have occurred in the modern...
The UnitedStates Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the UnitedStates. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives...
The UnitedStates Army (USA) is the land service branch of the UnitedStates Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated...
The UnitedStates has a racially and ethnically diverse population. At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most...
peoples of the UnitedStates or portions thereof, such as American Indians from the contiguous UnitedStates and Alaska Natives. The UnitedStates Census Bureau...
academies were started using local funds and tuition; most closed after a few years and others were established. In 1860 there were 6,415 academies in...