Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top appointee is facing accusations from his fellow commissioners regarding his behavior, while the agency debates new—and controversial—safety reforms for the industry.   Four NRC commissioners, two Dem...   read more

In an unusual case, a doctor in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been arrested for an act of sexual voyeurism he allegedly committed from his own home.   Pediatrician Howard Weinblatt was charged on November 23 with four counts of spying on an unclothed...   read more

6=90,000,000. That’s the equation of inequality between half a dozen Wal-Mart heirs and 90 million Americans.   Using 2007 data from the Federal Reserve, Sylvia Allegretto, deputy chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Univer...   read more

The net worth of Americans suffered a blow over the summer, when the collective value of their properties and assets declined 4% to $57.4 trillion ($498,751 per household). The drop was the worst since the middle of the financial crisis in Septemb...   read more

Pressured by Christian fundamentalists, the home improvement chain Lowe’s has pulled its advertisements from TLC’s All-American Muslim television program.   Lowe’s withdrew its ads after the Florida Family Association launched a campaign against...   read more

For opposing the use of birth control pills made by Bayer, a consumer advocate has lost his voting power on a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel.   Sid Wolfe, head the Public Citizen Health Research Group, was a full member of the...   read more

Jacinth Lorna Henry-Martin has served as ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis since February 2011. St. Kitts and Nevis is the smallest independent nation in the Americas in both area and populatio...   read more

How much did the Federal Reserve really spend to bail out Wall Street? The estimates vary widely, although all of them fall into the trillions.   Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke claims the total was $1.2 trillion. Bloomberg says it was $7.77 trillio...   read more

Over the past six years of war, the expense of delivering fuel to America’s fighting machine in remote parts of Afghanistan has increased 50-fold.   It now costs on average of $400 a gallon to keep planes, tanks and other fuel-dependent machin...   read more

The federal government is not getting the disclosure it had hoped for clinical trials when it mandated four years ago that researchers register studies of prescription drugs and report results on ClinicalTrials.gov.   Of the studies submitted ...   read more

Since August 2011, the Acting Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been David R. Shipman, who has more than thirty-five years’ experience in agricultural administration.   Born circ...   read more

Reverend Abednego Mandla Ntshangase has served as the ambassador to the United States from the Kingdom of Swaziland since May 1, 2010. Impoverished and landlocked, Swaziland is the only African country still ruled by a royal family. It is border...   read more

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) made it perfectly clear in its 972-page report on the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine that owner Massey Energy was to blame for the “preventable” disaster.   Twenty-nine miners died in the explosion...   read more

The partial remains of more than 270 American soldiers were twice-burned before they were discarded into a landfill, according to the latest development in the U.S. Air Force controversy.   Air Force leaders admitted this week that the number ...   read more

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has raised the issue of changing “stupid” child labor laws in the U.S. because, he says, those from poor families don’t understand the value of work. While Gingrich, his supporters and detractors d...   read more

It took a feat of spectacular incompetence on the part of both prosecutors and defense attorneys, but a court in Houston, Texas, managed to convict a man for armed robbery even though he was in jail at the time of the crime.   During his trial...   read more