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

Daniel Ohene Agyekum, a political insider who is no stranger to controversy, has been the ambassador to the United States from Ghana since October 19, 2009.    Born March 10, 1942, at Juaso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, which was then a Brit...   read more

Republican lawmakers in Arizona, including Gov. Jan Brewer, went beyond their authority when they diverted more than $50 million meant for public transit projects to other purposes.   In response to a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Center for La...   read more

The Department of the Interior has agreed to a potentially landmark settlement with environmentalists that will impact more than 700 species considered threatened or endangered.   By 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service promises to decide ...   read more

Like many Americans, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a problem with storage—as in too much of it.   An audit of IRS spending found the agency has been allocating $862,000 a year to store old furniture and other equipment in warehouses. ...   read more

Colonel Glenn R. Huber Jr. has served as commandant of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) at Fort Benning, Georgia, since July 29, 2010. He last served with WHINSEC in 2001, when he was a department director and ...   read more

David Mohlomi Rantekoa has served as ambassador of Lesotho to the United States since May 21, 2008. Lesotho, a nation of 2 million people, is completely surrounded by South Africa.   Born May 2, 1953, Rantekoa graduated from the National Unive...   read more

While more than one party played a role in the disaster, oil giant BP deserved the largest share of blame for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, says a new federal report.   In assessing the April 20 blowout and explosion that produced the wor...   read more

Two weeks before the Obama administration granted its first green-energy loan guarantee in 2009 to Solyndra Inc., an analyst in the U.S. Department of Energy warned that the solar-panel manufacturer would run out of money by September 2011.   ...   read more

When it comes to essential materials needed for so much of modern living, China wields considerable leverage over the consumerist appetite of the Western world.   Many of the critical elements required for manufacturing that are now deemed at-...   read more

L-3 Communications, one of the top defense contractors in the United States, is being sued by a group of Serbs who accuse the company of helping Croatians commit genocide against their people during the Balkans war in 1995.   A lawsuit filed i...   read more

Once considered the dream of science fiction writers, the use of suspended animation has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials.   Spearheading the futuristic technique is Dr. Peter Rhee, who gained na...   read more

The justification behind contracting out government work to private employees is that it’s supposed to be cheaper to let the private sector do it. Well, that may not be true.   According to a study by the watchdog group the Project on Governme...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probed a possible connection between a Saudi family living in Florida and the hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks, but never informed Congress or the 9/11 Commission about the investigatio...   read more

At a time when the U.S. government needs more revenue to help close a trillion-dollar a year deficit, large American corporations want to be exempted from paying taxes on overseas corporate profits, which could further worsen the red-ink problem...   read more

More than one in four African-Americans and Hispanics lived in poverty during 2010 in the United States, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Department of Health and Human Services defines poverty as $22,350 annual inc...   read more

The United States has lost sight of enough nuclear material, which was provided to friendly countries for civilian energy use, to manufacture hundreds of nuclear warheads.   An investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that t...   read more