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

President Barack Obama has decided to do something about a cult-like rebel group in Central Africa that has terrorized millions with its atrocities.   Heading to Uganda are 100 U.S. military advisers instructed to help local forces there, as wel...   read more

For the first time, a high-ranking Catholic official in the United States has been charged in a child sexual abuse case. Bishop Robert Finn, who oversees a diocese of 134,000 members in Missouri, and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph ...   read more

Being the spitting image of Saddam Hussein has not served Mohamed Bishr well.   The Egyptian, who looks remarkably like the former Iraqi dictator, says a group of men in Alexandria tried to force him to perform in a pornographic film so they cou...   read more

Matthew Tueller, a career Foreign Service Officer, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait on September 8, 2011. He has served there previously on two occasions.   Born circa 1951 in Utah, Tueller grew up in in Europe, North Africa, and Latin ...   read more

Since March 2010, the ambassador from Nigeria to the United States has been a former history professor, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, who has already helped to persuade the U.S. to remove his country from the government’s “country of interest” terror...   read more

Local governments have been giving up for the past several years on putting fluoride in drinking water, due to budget issues and suspicions of the longstanding practice.   Over the last four years, about 200 communities have stopped fluoridating...   read more

About two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, an American oil tanker set out from Port San Luis, California, bound for a refinery in Canada with fresh crude. The SS Montebello got as far as the central coast of California w...   read more

Republican lawmaker Curry Todd of Tennessee believes a person should be able to walk into a bar or restaurant serving alcohol and bring their handgun, as long they have a permit and don’t drink.   Todd, however, was unable to live up to his own ...   read more

Susan L. Ziadeh was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Qatar on September 12, 2011, for what is her eighth tour of duty in the Middle East.   The daughter of noted Palestinian-American scholar Farhat Ziadeh, Susan Ziadeh was born circa 1954 and grew...   read more

Since March 2010, the Ambassador from Gambia to the United States has been Alieu Momodou Ngum. Born August 12, 1950, in Gambia, which was a British colony at the time, Ngum grew up and received his secondary education there. Leaving the country fo...   read more

While the South has made considerable progress in numerous areas, many of its states continue to lag behind the rest of the United States.   A new report from the Center for a Better South demonstrates how the 11-state region still has challenge...   read more

A chlorinated solvent used for three decades at a U.S. Marine Corps base has been deemed a carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), confirming the suspicions of those who contracted rare illnesses after living on the base.   ...   read more

Support for capital punishment has weakened among Americans, down to its lowest levels since the Nixon administration.   A new Gallup survey found 61% still approve of using the death penalty for persons convicted of murder. Last year, however, ...   read more

It may end up costing at least $7 billion just for the Department of Defense to fix its byzantine accounting system, so military leaders and lawmakers can actually know what the Pentagon is doing with its money.   The Defense Department has alre...   read more

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s financial woes have the city teetering and local leaders battling each other over how to address the situation.   The City Council on Wednesday voted 4-3 to file for bankruptcy, due to the staggering debt of $400 milli...   read more

The first prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians in more than 25 years was overshadowed by the disproportionate ratio of the deal.   For one Israeli soldier, Sgt. Gilad Shalit, Israel agreed to let go more than 1,000 Hamas fighters....   read more