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

House Republicans are on record saying that, even without Herman Cain as their presidential nominee, the way to “improve” school lunches is to keep pizza and French fries on the menu.   Opposed to new nutritional standards proposed by the Obama ...   read more

After vowing to make significant changes, the Obama administration has given up on its own rules affecting the meat-packing industry.   Years of complaints from small- and medium-sized farmers prompted the administration to do something about an...   read more

A longtime energy industry executive, Charles D. McConnell was nominated in July by President Barack Obama to take over the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, which is the U.S. government’s lead office for coal, natural gas and oil ex...   read more

A member of the Senior Executive Service, McManus holds a BS degree and an MBA with emphasis in Finance and Accounting. Joining the US Army circa 1976 as an enlisted man, McManus was promoted to the officer ranks, serving mainly in West Germany an...   read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have come under criticism for agreeing to hear the legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law and then appearing as the featured guests of a conservative banquet that i...   read more

A federal judge has decided that Alabama and Louisiana cannot rely on state laws to recover damages for the August 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill accident. But the states may use federal statutes to collect monies from companies found responsibl...   read more

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is refusing to grant a liver transplant to a cancer patient because he used medical marijuana, which not only is legal under California law but also was prescribed by a Cedars doctor.   Diagnosed with i...   read more

Roberta S. Jacobson took over as the State Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs on July 18, 2011. On September 27, President Barack Obama nominated her to be Assistant Secretary.   A Foreign Service officer who ...   read more

Harold W. Forsyth assumed the role of Peru’s ambassador to Washington on August 3, 2011. A senior diplomat, he is also a published author and television personality.   The son of Willy Forsyth and Lucciola Mejia de Forsyth, he was born May 27, 1...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama is prosecuting fewer banks for fraud than it did under George W. Bush.   To date, the Justice Department, during the first eleven months of fiscal year 2011, has reported 1,251 new pros...   read more

Homicides in the U.S. have fallen significantly over the past 20 years, based on the latest statistics from the Justice Department.   In 1993, there were 9.5 murders per 100,000 Americans. By 2010, that rate had been cut in half, down to 4.8—the...   read more

Broke and in need of money, Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, has decided to auction off 8,000 artifacts, most of which hearken back to the Old West.   The collection includes gloves that (maybe) belonged to Buffalo Bill; a Jesse James “d...   read more

As part of its campaign to crush the ongoing political uprising, Syria’s government has utilized U.S.-manufactured technology to conduct Internet spying and block online access.   The technologies in question were developed by Blue Coat Systems ...   read more

One of Mexico’s political parties is miffed at native son and boxer Juan Manuel Márquez for wearing shorts during his recent title fight against Manny Pacquiao that had the logo of a rival political party.   Márquez’s trunks bore the Institution...   read more

Here’s a statistic for critics of wealth disparity: three millionths of 1% (0.000003%) of the world’s population has a net worth of $25 trillion.   Wealth-X, a self-described “global wealth intelligence and prospecting company,” estimates that t...   read more

Members of Congress think highly of General Electric, making it the most popular investment on Capitol Hill. Seventy-five lawmakers held a total of $3.6 million in GE stock last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.   It just so...   read more