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

After pleading 10 years for a chance to clear his name, Hank Skinner received a ray of hope only two days before his execution date in Texas.   The convicted triple murderer has insisted since his trial in 1995 that he did not kill his girlfrien...   read more

Pro and con sides of the abortion debate will be watching Mississippi closely on Tuesday to see if a controversial and far-reaching initiative will be adopted by voters.   The constitutional amendment would make Mississippi the first state to de...   read more

Big-money investors have found a hot new business to get behind: so-called “Buy Here Pay Here” used-car dealerships.   Such dealerships feed off desperate consumers who can’t get financing for cars, selling them older, high-mileage vehicles at i...   read more

General Electric’s business dealings with China have drawn criticism from a Republican lawmaker concerned that the company may wind up helping the Asian giant develop advanced military aircraft similar to U.S. warplanes.   Representative Randy F...   read more

To the chagrin of American diplomats and military commanders, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has expanded its targeting criteria for drone attacks in Pakistan to include anyone who might be associated with al-Qaeda or other terrorist organi...   read more

While soldiers rely on diet and exercise to stay fit for service, their wives have been receiving weight-loss surgeries, compliments of the Department of Defense.   Using the Freedom of Information Act, local news station KIRO 7 in Seattle disco...   read more

That $5-a-month debit card fee was a great idea by Bank of America…for credit unions.   From the date BofA announced the controversial idea until this week, credit unions across the U.S. gained 650,000 new customers. To put this number in perspe...   read more

Created to thwart such crimes, a Social Security Administration database is being used by criminals to file fraudulent income tax returns involving the names of deceased children.   The government established the Death Master File in 1980 to hel...   read more

The number of Americans living in extremely poor neighborhoods increased in recent years, following a period in the 1990s when this problem was declining. Such areas are defined as having 40% of individuals living below the poverty line.   From ...   read more

Having been publicly exposed for teaching that all Muslims are dangerous, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked for help from the U.S. Army’s premier educational source.   The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC) will soo...   read more

The Nordic nation of Finland, where more than 60% of the population speaks at least some English, has sent its first female ambassador to the United States. Ritva Koukku-Ronde, a former journalist with experience in global development issues, took...   read more

A pharmaceutical giant has broken yet another record for legal settlements stemming from claims of illegally marketing drugs and defrauding federal healthcare programs.   GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said this week that it would pay $3 billion to resol...   read more

Even if found not guilty of the bombing of an American warship more than a decade ago, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri won’t be going free.   Al-Nashiri is accused of masterminding the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sai...   read more

Since creating the We the People website in September, the White House has posted more than 130 petitions from Americans urging changes in government policy. Initially, officials promised to respond to petitions that received more than 5,000 signa...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated veteran diplomat Mary Beth Leonard to become the U.S. Ambassador to Mali on June 21, 2011, and she was confirmed by the Senate on October 18. Leonard had previously served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. emb...   read more

According to the U.S. tax code, corporations pay a 35% tax rate on their earnings. But at least 30 of them paid zero federal income over the last three years, while hundreds of other companies paid half the official corporate rate.   The finding...   read more