Interior Department

PADEN, Okla. — “Stop giving federal rights to the states that were formed after our Treaty of 1868,” says President Russell Begaye, Navajo Nation. “If you are moving forward with this reorganization, tribes must be involved.”

Each of the executive departments has its own inspector general whose job is to keep the department from breaking any laws or straying too far into blatant corruption.

In case you missed it … The rusty patched bumblebee has officially been put on the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says, after a delay and concerns that the species might not receive federal protection.