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

North Carolina’s school system has had a habit of punishing black students more often than white students who commit the same offenses.   A study released by the National Education Policy Center, a non-partisan source of peer-reviewed research...   read more

3M Co., which has made a fortune selling Post-It’s, is now suing the maker of a humorous line of sticky notes for trademark infringement. 3M insists it owns the rights to using “-Its” in products and that competing products will only confuse cus...   read more

Once the layoffs started and the economy shrunk during the Great Recession, Americans turned to relatives for shelter, causing a significant increase in the number of multi-generational households. The share of Americans living in such household...   read more

For the second year in a row, the Obama administration has decided to override U.S. law and allow military assistance to foreign governments that use child soldiers.   The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 prohibits the U.S. government fro...   read more

The Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) is facing two lawsuits, one state and one federal, for allegedly cheating pensioners out of foreign exchange fees over a 10-year period.   The state attorney general of New York, Eric Schneiderman, is accusin...   read more

The Obama administration is having a difficult time making up its mind over whether to green-light the first-ever study of marijuana and its medicinal impact on veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).   In April, the Foo...   read more

Al-Qaeda’s top leader in Iraq now has a $10 million bounty on his head, thanks to the U.S. government.   Dr. Ibrahim ‘Awwad Ibrahim ‘Ali (aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurshi, aka Abu Du’a) is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq,...   read more

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is coming under criticism for forcing public bus drivers to abandon their routes and transport anti-Wall Street demonstrators arrested for disorderly conduct on Saturday. About 700 protestors were arres...   read more

Over the past decade Hispanics flocked to Alabama and helped fulfill the labor needs of the agricultural and construction sectors. But the magnetism of opportunity that drew many legal and illegal immigrants to the state has suddenly reversed, res...   read more

A federal judge criticized the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for using “bad science” in assessing the potential impact that construction on California’s most important water supply projects would have on multiple endangered fish speci...   read more

With the help of millionaire Roxanne Quimby, conservationists want to establish a new national park in Maine to commemorate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.   Quimby made a fortune developing the Burt’s Bees line of...   read more

Last Friday’s high school football game in the small Michigan town of Pinckney was no ordinary contest for the hometown team. The game against state-ranked Grand Blanc also was part of homecoming, and the senior voted queen really made headlines...   read more

New state laws adopted around the country may result in more than five million eligible voters not participating in next year’s election.   The Brennan Center for Justice examined 19 laws (plus two executive actions) that were passed in 14 sta...   read more

Food imports into the United States are far outpacing the ability of the federal government to inspect shipments, leaving the nation vulnerable to outbreaks of food-borne illness.   A decade ago, the U.S. imported six million shipments of food...   read more

With solutions for a quick domestic turnaround unavailable, Washington policymakers are focusing attention on expanding the number of wealthy foreign tourists who visit the United States and spend their money over the next 10 years.   The enti...   read more

West Hollywood, California, (population: 36,000) has decided to become the first city to completely ban the sale of fur coats and any other clothing that features animal fur. The five-member city council is expected to officially adopt a measure...   read more