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

When students borrow money for college, and often saddle themselves with enormous debts, they wind up taking out loans with one of five major lenders in the U.S. A trillion-dollar business, it has been a source of profit for the big five.   The ...   read more

In a first for Ohio, officials in Cleveland Heights have removed a child from his home on grounds of being severely obese.   The Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services put the third grader, who weighed more than 200 pounds, i...   read more

No man is above the law in Germany, where even the German-born pope can get in trouble for not wearing his seat belt.   Uwe Hilsmann, a German citizen from Dortmund, hired a lawyer, Johannes Sundermann, who filed charges against Pope Benedict XV...   read more

Update: 15 Democrats Join Republicans to Give Military Power to Imprison Suspects Indefinitely   Bipartisan legislation being considered in the U.S. Senate would expand the military’s power to go after any terrorism suspect, including Americ...   read more

Tim Loop of Brownsville, Texas, is now living in no-man’s land, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security.   Loop and his family reside on farmland settled by his grandfather almost a century ago near the U.S.-Mexico border. But their proper...   read more

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) wants federal agencies to stop hiring companies to perform jobs that are “inherently governmental functions,” which by their very definition are never supposed to be contracted out.   Examples of these jobs inclu...   read more

Thanks to the Federal Reserve’s generous lending during the 2007-2009 financial crisis, banks that were teetering and at risk of collapsing wound up making billions of dollars in profits, according to Bloomberg Markets magazine.   After combing ...   read more

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will be asked for an upcoming case to interpret the geographic descriptions logged by Lewis and Clark in their diaries from the early 19th century.   The matter of what Meriwether Lewis and William Clark saw on...   read more

President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois, has been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) list of areas with too much lead in the air.   Along with Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Belding, Michigan; Saline, Kansas; and Pot...   read more

Led by Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court has been reversing convictions for murder, drug dealing, wife beating and drunken driving on grounds that defendants have been denied their 6th Amendment rights.   The 6th Amendment guarantee...   read more

In the wake of the “Memogate” scandal, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, was forced to resign on November 22, 2011. He was accused of writing a secret memo asking the U.S. military for assistance in changing Pakistan’s po...   read more

The U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has suggested the cash-strapped agency consider offering email, secure document storage, and other online services as a way to bring in new revenues.   According to the IG, the Postal Service is one of...   read more

If life on Earth has gotten to be a bit too much, the neighborhood near Saturn might be the place to try next.   A group of astrobiologists has calculated which planets and satellites are the next best options for supporting life outside of eart...   read more

Things truly were black on the Friday after Thanksgiving, as consumers shoved, punched and sprayed their way in Wal-Marts across America to get the best bargains.   A Wal-Mart in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles received the most Bla...   read more

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, abruptly quit his post this week amid allegations that he asked Washington for help in reigning in his country’s powerful military.   An American businessman of Pakistani origin, Mansoo...   read more

Giving new meaning to the phrase “streaming video,” Captive Media has produced the first “hands-free urinal videogame,” which is now being unveiled in bars and clubs in the United Kingdom. With foot-long LCD screens mounted above specially-crafted...   read more