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

Federal inspectors general found numerous ways last year for the government to save as much as $87.2 billion, according to the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.   At a recent banquet honoring the work of IGs, awards ...   read more

Rush Limbaugh has gained popularity for his provocative rants, but on Friday he went over the edge, defending a vicious African rebel group whose leader, Joseph Kony, has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.   The Lord’s Res...   read more

Short on revenues and wanting to avoid program cuts, officials with Bucks County’s Pennsbury School District in southeastern Pennsylvania have decided to allow marketers to post large print advertisements in K-12 schools.   The advertising initi...   read more

Advocates for the deaf and hearing-impaired are suing Alabama officials for trying to divert millions of dollars away from a special fund and into the budget for public schools.   The legal fight is over $30 million in the Alabama Dual Party Rel...   read more

A plurality of Americans for the first time supports the legalization of marijuana, according to a new Gallup survey.   In the new poll, 50% said the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 46% oppose the idea.   Last year, support for le...   read more

Entrepreneurs in Harris County, Texas, have figured out a way to charge Medicare for hundreds of millions of extra dollars by transporting non-critical patients in ambulances.   In 2009, the nation’s largest city—New York—only charged Medica...   read more

Two U.S. generals have publicly disagreed over the cause of a fatal aircraft accident in Afghanistan that killed four people.   Regarding the crash of a CV-22 Osprey on April 9, 2010, Brigadier General Donald Harvel, president of the accident in...   read more

Doctors routinely ignore the recommendations of a panel of experts when it comes to cancer tests for patients, particularly the elderly, resulting in Medicare paying for billions of dollars in services that are unnecessary.   Medicare spent near...   read more

The United States leads the developed world in child-abuse deaths, according to the organization Every Child Matters. More than 20,000 American children have died over the past decade in their own homes because of family members, with about 75% be...   read more

The tax plan that has helped catapult Herman Cain into being a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination may have originated in the video game SimCity.   Cain has proposed scrapping the current federal tax system and replacing...   read more

Kathleen Casey, a political appointee to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), spent portions of her time regulating Wall Street from overseas, according to agency records obtained by JunketSleuth.   The outgoing commissioner traveled to...   read more

The New York Times is suing the U.S. Department of Justice to find out what the Obama administration has been keeping secret regarding the Patriot Act.   After filing Freedom of Information Act requests and getting nowhere, the newspaper decided...   read more

While declaring the need to get more students to study science and engineering, Florida Governor Rick Scott said he would like to shift state funding away from some degree programs, such as anthropology.   “If I’m going to take money from a citi...   read more

Christina Jones, an African-American utility worker in Illinois, has been awarded $59,000 by a jury after she sued two police officers for arresting her in a white community while doing her job.   On August 16, 2005, Jones was reading electricit...   read more

Already under investigation for questionable billings, the hospitals of Prime Healthcare Services are also accused of fraudulently charging Medicare for a variety of unusual medical conditions that pay more than ordinary illnesses.   According t...   read more

A federal judge for the past eighteen years, Patti B. Saris has chaired the United States Sentencing Commission since January 2011. Created in 1984 to deal with disparities in sentencing in different states, the Commission develops sentencing guid...   read more