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 Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, aka the “Super Committee” tasked with eliminating $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit, has met secretly over the past month, keeping its discussions out of the press and refusing to divulge any of its c...   read more

Rather than send non-violent criminals to jail, the small Alabama town of Bay Minette (population 7,700) wants to offer church as an alternative to incarceration.   Under the city’s Operation Restore Our Community (ROC), misdemeanor offenders ca...   read more

On behalf of the White House, as well as the military, diplomatic and intelligence wings of the Obama administration, the Department of Justice has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking the release of government photos and video from ...   read more

The U.S military is refusing to stop prescribing Seroquel, a powerful antipsychotic, to treat insomnia in troops fighting overseas, even though a panel of experts has recommended it do so.   Medical officials in the Department of Defense have ap...   read more

The Obama administration is continuing its pursuit of illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds, arresting nearly 3,000 individuals recently as part of a nationwide hunt involving federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.   Led by Im...   read more

With workers’ wages flat-lining, the economic struggle for Americans and business owners in 2011 has been exacerbated by soaring health insurance premiums.   So far in 2011 the average cost of a family health plan has gone up 9% over last year...   read more

American arms merchants enjoyed a dominant year in 2010 as the United States was responsible for selling more than half of all weapons worldwide.   Although U.S. arms exports actually declined last year, compared to 2009, the dramatic drop in ...   read more

If you want to keep your text messages completely private, and out of the hands of law enforcement, then Verizon is not the provider for you.   According to a confidential U.S. Department of Justice document (obtained by the American Civil Lib...   read more

While investigating the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for alleged crimes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may have broken the law as well, and in the process created a serious rift between the two law enforcement agencies.  ...   read more

Hope is dead in Minnesota, where a young black bear with the inspiring name was killed by a hunter on September 16.   The bear and its mother, Lily, were the subjects of a study by biologist Lynn Rogers and featured in a BBC documentary, The B...   read more

How does a community, in which more than four out of every 10 people are poor, make a go of things? That’s what the residents of Reading, Pennsylvania—the nation’s poorest city—would like to know.   Ten years ago, the economic situation was al...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has notified Standard & Poor’s that civil charges may be filed against the credit-ratings firm for its 2007 grading of a high-risk securities deal.   The warning represents the first time the SEC ha...   read more

Fifteen years ago, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made a simple rule change intended to cut down on tax paperwork for U.S. companies. Since then the “check-the-box” procedure has become a windfall for corporations that have used the change to ...   read more

House and Senate lawmakers are working on legislation that would limit the amount of executive compensation that contractors can bill the U.S. government.   The proposed change in law would cap total billable compensation for company leaders (...   read more

On the same day it gave women the power to vote in certain elections, the government of Saudi Arabia reinforced its conservative policies by moving ahead with trying a woman for driving a car.   With respect to the suffrage change, women will be...   read more

It’s not often the federal government winds up saving money by spending it. But that’s what it’s done by employing 62 inspectors general through the Executive Branch and among independent agencies who regularly turn up billions of dollars in pot...   read more