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

For a conflict that’s involved more unmanned aerial attacks by the United States than the American onslaught in Pakistan this year, the “war” in Libya sure seems to be just that, regardless of what the White House has said.   Since the U.S. got ...   read more

In the nation’s capital, crime does pay for defense contractors.   The Department of Defense has admitted that it has rewarded hundreds of companies convicted of fraud with new deals that totaled more than $1.1 trillion.   Senator Bernie Sande...   read more

Louisiana residents buying used goods such as clothing, furniture and household items can no longer do so with cash, under a new state law signed by Governor Bobby Jindal on July 1.   State representative Rickey Hardy, who co-authored the legisl...   read more

The West African nation of Guinea gained a new ambassador to the United States on July 6, 2011. Blaise Chérif, a specialist in refugee issues, presented his credentials to President Barack Obama on September 9.   Born September 25, 1945, in N’Zo...   read more

Since July 2009, the small Caribbean island nation of Grenada, which the United States invaded in 1983, has been represented in the U.S. by Gillian M.S. Bristol, who is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Mexico and Permanent Representative t...   read more

Now that congressional auditors have gained access for the first time to the financial records of the Federal Reserve, their assessment has turned up serious conflicts of interest for the board members overseeing the branches of the national bank....   read more

On top of the enormous national debt and crippling mortgages burdening the United States, college graduates have become saddled with student loans that now total more than $1 trillion. This includes $555 billion in federal education loans.   Wit...   read more

With a $10 million investment from the United States, the government of Egypt managed to lose $90 billion in potential revenues, thanks to high-level corruption by those connected to former dictator Hosni Mubarak.   In the early 1990s, the U.S. ...   read more

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator, may soon lose $70 million in assets he holds in the United States.   The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a preliminary notice in California that it may be intending to s...   read more

Regardless of whether they’re deployed or what the temperature is, Marines will now have to keep their shirt sleeves rolled down.   Commandant General James Amos has declared that as of October 24, no Marine may be permitted to roll up their sle...   read more

Muammar al-Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya for the last 42 years, has been killed by rebels in the city of Sirte. Conflicting versions claim that he was either wounded or killed. Gaddafi seized power in the North African nation of Libya in 1969 whe...   read more

Muammar al-Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya for the last 42 years, has been reported captured by rebels in the city of Sirte. Conflicting versions claim that he was either wounded or killed. Gaddafi seized power in the North African nation of Libya ...   read more

Following the theft of personal information for nearly five million former and current soldiers, the Department of Defense is now being sued by four individuals affected by the incident.   The stolen data was contained on computer tapes belongin...   read more

The United States has now killed three of its citizens in Yemen in the past month as a result of unmanned aerial strikes carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).   Following the deaths in late September of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-...   read more

Secure Communities, the anti-illegal immigrant deportation program embraced by the Obama administration, has removed Latinos from the United States in disproportionate numbers.   Ninety-three percent of the individuals arrested through Secure Co...   read more

Passing judgment over criminal and civil matters is bound to produce more than a few disgruntled detractors. But some judges earn widespread reputations for incompetence or unfairness while presiding from the bench, placing them at the bottom of j...   read more