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

With prompting from the media, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to make public its secret lists that include repeat corporate polluters.   Following the publication of a story by the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News ...   read more

The process of presidential pardons for convicted criminals has not been colorblind in recent years, according to an investigation by ProPublica.   After examining hundreds of pardons issued during the Bush and Obama administrations (mostly the ...   read more

The number of illegal immigrants arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border has continued to decline, down to a 40-year low.   About 327,000 people were apprehended during fiscal year 2011, according to the Department of Homeland Security. This figure i...   read more

Users of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia mobile phones can forget about keeping their cellular activities to themselves. Almost everything a person does on these phones is recorded by a secret program that few knew about until last week.   That wa...   read more

Having previously attested to the product’s safety, the Food and Drug Administration is now considering guidelines to limit the amount of harmful arsenic in apple juice.   The FDA currently does not regulate arsenic levels in fruit juices. But r...   read more

For the millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the Great Recession, finding new employment has been only one hurdle to clear. Getting their old way of life back is still another.   Using four surveys administered between August 2009 an...   read more

Alabama’s tough anti-illegal immigrant law, intended to nab undocumented Hispanics, wound up ensnaring two foreign automaker executives.   First, police arrested a German manager with Mercedes-Benz for not having a driver’s license with him afte...   read more

32,000 days. That’s how long AT&T has been in violation of environmental laws in Texas for polluting large areas with leaky underground gasoline tanks, according to state and county officials.   Harris County (which includes the city of Houston)...   read more

Occupy protesters in Richmond, Virginia, have sided with Tea Party members in their fight against City Hall.   The Richmond Tea Party has accused the mayor of retaliating against them for saying the city unfairly charged it $10,000 for demonstra...   read more

President Barack Obama has turned to a former health care executive to serve as the next Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the federal body responsible for administering the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as...   read more

Many of the world’s top banks have been labeled “climate killers” by a consortium of environmental organizations that studied the financial industry’s investments in coal.   “We chose to look into coal financing as coal-fired power plants are th...   read more

Being in law enforcement and speaking out against the nation’s drug laws can be professionally hazardous. But a growing number of police and others are doing just that, and suffering the consequences.   Those who have lost their jobs for persona...   read more

Former U.S. Navy Captain Ray E. Davis faces an extradition order from Chile for participating in the murders of two Americans shortly after a military coup toppled the regime of President Salvador Allende in 1973.    A Chilean judge wants Davis ...   read more

The poorest city in America got some mysterious holiday cheer this week. An unidentified man known only as the Secret Santa traveled around Reading, Pennsylvania, handing out $100 bills to people in need. From the bus terminal to the local Salvat...   read more

The new U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh is a career diplomat who grew up milking cows on the family farm, and whose career has taken him primarily to rural countries in South Asia and Southern Africa. Dan W. Mozena previously served at the embassy i...   read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has sued five national banks for allegedly pursuing illegal foreclosures on properties in her state.   Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and GMAC are accused of violating Massachuset...   read more