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 United States is experiencing an increase in income segregation, according to a new study produced by Stanford University.   Forty years ago 65% of families were lived in middle-income neighborhoods. By 2007, that percentage had fallen to 44...   read more

A federal judge in Virginia is expected this week to rule whether 28 current and former military personnel can sue the Department of Defense for not taking action to curb rape in the armed services.   Filed against former defense secretaries Rob...   read more

It has been a rough couple of weeks for Israeli-French relations, bookended by political insults and rocket attacks.   Tensions arose last week after France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was overheard by reporters calling Israel’s prime minister...   read more

With the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, the United States will finally conclude the longest air war in world history.   For 20 years, beginning with the 1991 Gulf War and now ending in December, the U.S. carried out almost continuous a...   read more

There’s hasn’t been a case of smallpox in the U.S. in 62 years. But that hasn’t stopped the Obama administration from awarding a $433 million deal to a company to produce an antidote for the non-existent disease—a company whose controlling shareho...   read more

America’s wealthy enjoy an average of $30 billion a year in help from the U.S. government, according to a study produced for Republican U.S. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.   Individuals earning more than $1 million annually have been taking adv...   read more

A subsidiary of American Airlines this week became the first in the industry to be penalized by the federal government for making passengers endure lengthy delays on an airport tarmac.   The U.S. Department of Transportation fined American Eagle...   read more

In need of new revenues because of budget cuts, a Colorado school district has approved the printing of advertisements on student report cards.   The Jefferson County School District, west of Denver, will receive $90,000 over three years for run...   read more

Americans are continuing to lose health insurance coverage and to struggle paying for serious medical conditions, according to two separate surveys.   A Gallup poll found the proportion of adults with no health insurance has been above 17% for t...   read more

Bank of America may have lost the battle over its proposed $5/month debit card fee, but, along with other major banks, it is not giving up on charging customers for other services in order to maintain profits.   At BofA consumers can expect to p...   read more

A cleanup worker involved in last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico claims the company and the U.S. Coast Guard worked in secrecy while attempting to burn the petroleum off the ocean’s surface. Malcolm Coco, who worked for BP for three and...   read more

Baby Boomers are making it harder on the earth than Millennials in terms of contributing to global warming.   Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute, led by Emilio Zagheni, using data from the United States, examined carbon dioxide emissi...   read more

In the wake of MF Global losing more than half a billion dollars of client money, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has decided to audit every single futures trading firm in the country.   There are currently more than 100 futures ...   read more

Despite lacking what critics say is a clear purpose or mission, the Department of Energy is planning to invest $6 billion in building a new plutonium facility at the nation’s leading scientific lab.   Los Alamos National Laboratory wants to have...   read more

The housing market crisis of 2007-2008 continues to bleed money from the U.S. Treasury as mortgage giant Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) takes another bailout from Washington.   The government-controlled firm needed anothe...   read more

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff of New York blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week after it proposed what Rakoff said was a weak and inappropriate settlement with Citigroup for defrauding customers.   The bank sold $1 billion in...   read more