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

Upset over the lack of prosecutions of high-ranking Catholic leaders, sex-abuse victims are attempting to take their case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, which was established for the prosecution of war crimes.   The Ce...   read more

Glen Milner of Lake Forest Park, Washington, has been trying for eight years to find out if the U.S. Navy’s largest munitions depot on the West Coast is a threat to nearby communities.   But the Navy has refused to turn over the information Mi...   read more

For those physically affected by wireless signals, the place to go is in a remote part of West Virginia made possible by the U.S. government.   In the small town of Green Bank (population: 143), residents can live free of wireless signals. Exp...   read more

College graduates are struggling the most since the 1990s to keep up with their student loan payments, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.   Among student borrowers, 8.8% defaulted last year on their loans, up from 7% ...   read more

As expected, the U.S. Navy set a record in 2011 by firing more commanders in a single year than ever before.   Naval leaders on September 7 relieved Commander Mark Olson of his command of the USS The Sullivans, making him the 18th skipper boot...   read more

Advocates for shrinking, if not entirely eliminating, the tax on capital gains insist such a move is good for the economy, summing up their position with the slogan “Capital Gains=Better Jobs.”   But for many on the left, the message could be:...   read more

Leaders of Saudi Arabia are being sued by Lloyd’s insurance for playing a key role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.   Lloyd’s has paid more than $215 million in claims filed by families of those killed in the attacks, and wants Saudi leaders to ...   read more

Slashing trillions of dollars out of the federal budget, which many lawmakers are seeking, will help reduce the deficit. But it could also have a negative impact on small communities across the United States.   Cutting the budget means shrinki...   read more

While earning billions of dollars in revenues, America’s video game industry has enjoyed a variety of tax breaks from the U.S. government. Electronic Arts, for example, earned $1.2 billion in global profits over the past five years, but only paid ...   read more

Described as the most important Fourth Amendment case heard in a decade, the matter of United States v. Jones will begin arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in November.   At stake is the Obama administration’s position that law enforcement ...   read more

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been criticized recently because of its Fast and Furious” tracking program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of drug cartels, leading to the murder of Border Patrol Agent B...   read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was sued an average of more than 100 times a year over the past two decades, according to a review of the agency’s legal history by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).   GAO found that abo...   read more

In addition to confronting court cases involving accusations of mortgage fraud, many of the nation’s largest banks could also be subject to criminal indictments from federal prosecutors, based on the findings of a government housing investigatio...   read more

Consumer advocates are complaining about a provision in the federal healthcare reform law that was supposed to give patients more power in disputes with insurance companies.   With insurers often refusing to pay for certain medical services, t...   read more

Since February 24, 2010, Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed, a career diplomat, has served as the ambassador to the United States from the Maldives (population 315,000), an extremely low-lying island chain in the Indian Ocean threatened with extinction by ri...   read more

In the rush after 9/11 to calm the nerves of anxious New Yorkers, the Bush administration downplayed the potential hazardous air quality of the financial district and consequently increased the risk of exposure for thousands.   An investigatio...   read more