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

Twenty years after its betrayal, the U.S. government has finally apologized to the Shiites of Iraq for abandoning them at the end of the Gulf War.   In 1991, President George H. W. Bush publicly urged Shiites, who constitute a majority of Iraq’s...   read more

On October 19, 2011, Carlo Maria Viganò took over as ambassador to the United States from the city-state of Vatican City (Holy See). A Vatican financial reformer who apparently did not want the job, Viganò, who is an archbishop in the Roman Cathol...   read more

Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons have been informed that U.S. penitentiaries could be vulnerable to cyber attacks that would help prisoners escape.   Most American prisons are operated by industrial control systems (ICS) that also ar...   read more

After wasting $1 billion trying to build a virtual border fence and giving up, the Department of Homeland Security wants to spend another $1.5 billion on a replacement program that hasn’t been well thought out, according to critics.   Customs an...   read more

More than 25% of Medicare patients in 2008 were at risk of being subjected to an “adverse event” at a hospital, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general.   A 2008 survey of 81 hospitals found that ...   read more

Once again the U.S. military has failed to properly tend to its fallen soldiers, having first botched burials at the nation’s leading cemetery for service personnel and now mistreating remains upon their return to the U.S.   At Dover Air Force B...   read more

Nearly a dozen Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employees working at the Lihu‘e Airport on the island of Kauai in Hawaii were overcome on November 3 by unidentified emissions coming from the security checkpoint they were manning.   Sus...   read more

Promises can be hard to keep. Just ask Citigroup and Bank of America.   The two behemoths of banking have repeatedly claimed that they would stop defrauding customers, after having been busted multiple times by the Securities and Exchange Commis...   read more

Nearly all 12 members of the congressional “Supercommittee” charged with cutting more than $1 trillion from the federal budget have accepted donations from foreign lobbyists this year.   The fact that 10 lawmakers have taken contributions recent...   read more

Faulty procurement by the Department of Defense has allowed counterfeit computer chips made in China to wind up in the parts inventory of advanced weapons systems.   The embarrassing revelation was exposed by the U.S. Navy and the Immigration an...   read more

Good news for the U.S. economy has surfaced in the nation’s bankruptcy courts, where filings are down for the first time since 2005.   Individuals and businesses collectively filed 1,467,221 bankruptcy cases in fiscal year 2011, down 8% from 201...   read more

In a surprising about-face, the Department of Defense has decided for the first time to broadcast the military trial of a Guantánamo detainee.   The decision comes after years of secrecy that has surrounded the holding of accused terrorists, inc...   read more

A majority of jobless Americans are no longer receiving unemployment benefits because they’ve been out of work too long to qualify.   The percentage of unemployed still getting checks from the government is now down to 48%—a significant drop fro...   read more

Commando teams have become popular not only within the U.S. military, but also with the federal government’s top law enforcement agency for combating drug trafficking.   The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) now has five Special Forces-like ...   read more

Nearly $90 billion in contracts were awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy over a two-year period without officials bothering to review the performance of the companies that were hired.   Included in this spending were federal stimulus monies...   read more

Tennessee has become the first state in the nation to welcome the federal government’s latest anti-terrorist program: Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR).   The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created VIPR in December 20...   read more