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

Michigan’s solution for getting local communities out of fiscal turmoil has resulted in “emergency financial managers,” known to some as “dictators,” undermining the country’s fundamental system of democracy, according to critics.   Last year,...   read more

It used to be a person had to be dead for at least five years before their likeness could appear on a postage stamp. But with the U.S. Postal Service desperately in need of more money, Postmaster Patrick Donahue has decided to make the living el...   read more

Employment with the U.S. government can be a lifetime, and beyond, opportunity to make money.   The inspector general with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently uncovered that the agency had made more than $600 million in payments ...   read more

The cumulative effect of carrying heavy packs and body armor, performing strength training and enduring combat injuries are taking their toll on the young bodies of American soldiers. A new research study published in the journal Arthritis and R...   read more

The latest polls out of Israel and the United States show that the vast majority of Israelis and Americans who have an opinion support the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Nevertheless, when President Barack Obama spoke at the Unite...   read more

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, saved the U.S. government $50 billion last year as a result of its audits. For every dollar GAO received in funding, it saves the U.S. Treasury $87—and yet, Congress ...   read more

Recordings of the trial that struck down Proposition 8, the California initiative outlawing gay marriage, should be released to the public, a federal judge ordered this week.   The 2010 trial was supposed to be streamed over the Internet to co...   read more

Health officials in the Obama administration are making it difficult for the media to obtain information about doctors punished for malpractice and other misdeeds.   The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has removed the Public ...   read more

On October 9, the nation of Cameroon in west-central Africa will hold a presidential election. There will be 23 candidates, but there isn’t much doubt which one will win…78-year-old Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon for 29 years. In fact, Biya i...   read more

While better regulations and safety standards have produced fewer and fewer auto-related deaths in the United States, drug-induced fatalities continue to go up—and now are the bigger killer of Americans.   An analysis by the Los Angeles Times ...   read more

Blimps, a tool of warfare utilized in World War I, are making a comeback in Afghanistan, where the large inflatable vehicles are helping the U.S. spy on insurgents.   But using blimps has run into a problem: not enough helium is available. Wit...   read more

Almost five decades after their feats, a group of American commandoes finally have been honored by the U.S. government for their bravery during the Vietnam War.   Fifteen men from the U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observ...   read more

The U.S. Access Board (USAB), an independent Federal agency that works to assure enforced accessibility for people with disabilities and is also a key resource of information on accessible design, is chaired this year by a pioneer disability right...   read more

Banking executive John E. Beale was appointed ambassador of Barbados to the United States on January 29, 2009. Eleven days later he also presented his credentials as Barbados’ representative to the Permanent Council of the Organization of Americ...   read more

Where did all the hate go?   A year ago, when news leaked out about the development of an Islamic community center in New York City only a couple blocks away from the former World Trade Center towers, the vitriol was overflowing. Conservative ...   read more

Geopolitics and economics trump human rights and democracy in Bahrain, where the oil-based kingdom, led by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, has spent months cracking down on protesters and dissidents and now is being rewarded with American militar...   read more