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 violent crackdown last week by police in Oakland, California, against Occupy protesters was nothing new to local residents who have witnessed the city’s law enforcement behave brutally, and sometimes illegally.   In 2003, several Oakland pol...   read more

The Department of Defense has not shortchanged itself since 9/11. Over the last 10 years, the military spent about $1 trillion on new weapons and war-fighting equipment, according to a think tank’s report. Of the total spent, 22% came not from the...   read more

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has again lost its case against CBS over the airing of Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004 during the Super Bowl halftime show.   The FCC, then headed by Republican Michael K. Powel...   read more

Twice now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has failed to meet a deadline mandated by Congress to inspect 100% of all cargo on international U.S.-bound passenger planes. Following recommendations made by the commission that investig...   read more

In the late 1990s, experts insisted it was highly unlikely the U.S. would rely on new x-ray body scanners at airports and other security checkpoints. But the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reversed that thinking and today there are hundr...   read more

The rich in Congress have continued to get richer, according to a new analysis of lawmakers’ net worth by Roll Call.   Three years ago, the collective net worth all representatives and senators was $1.65 billion. By 2010, this amount had increas...   read more

With suicides in the military continually rising, the Center for a New American Security has recommended Congress repeal the restriction, imposed last year, on commanders talking to troops about their personally owned guns.   The think tank’s ne...   read more

As the 2012 elections draw nearer, the battle over redistricting based by on the 2010 census is heating up in several states.   With the help of the Republican-controlled state Senate, Governor Jan Brewer this week removed the chairwoman of the ...   read more

Since taking command of Guantánamo Bay, Rear Admiral David Woods has ordered prison guards to read all mail for detainees, including correspondence from their lawyers which is supposed to be protected under attorney-client privilege.   Woods dec...   read more

Following on its warning from last week, the United States has withdrawn its funding from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after it voted to admit Palestine as a member.   The U.S., which is responsib...   read more

Thousands of drug offenders convicted of possessing crack cocaine under federal law will receive early releases due to recent changes in mandatory sentencing laws that come closer to equalizing the penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine. ...   read more

A U.S. national park will once again become a point of entry for citizens of Mexico now that Washington has decided to reopen an unmanned border crossing.   The border crossing, located in Big Bend National Park in remote southwest Texas, had be...   read more

Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel has a new enemy: the hacker collective known as Anonymous.   Angry over the alleged kidnapping of one of their members, Anonymous has threatened in a video to expose the identities of Mexican police, taxi drivers and j...   read more

Since August 1, 2011, the ambassador to the United States from India, the world’s second most populous nation (population: 1.14 billion) has been Nirupama Rao. A seasoned diplomat, she is the third woman to serve in the position and the second in ...   read more

Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates insist government regulations are holding the economy back and therefore must be reduced in number. But the latest government figures don’t bear this out.   During first half of this year, of more...   read more

Residents of Boulder, Colorado, are deciding whether to dump the corporation currently providing the city’s electricity in favor of establishing a municipal utility that would be more environmental friendly and locally accountable.   The city’s ...   read more