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 “don’t ask, don’t tell” years in the U.S. military were difficult for homosexual service members. But now that the discriminatory policy is being eliminated, many gays and lesbians who were forced out of the military want to go back to servi...   read more

A former member of Afghanistan’s defense forces, Sabar Lal Melma was killed recently by NATO troops following his long stint as a detainee in Guantánamo.   At the time of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, Melma was a commander ...   read more

In a move that floored his environmental supporters, President Barack Obama late last week killed a tough new anti-smog plan proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).   Obama’s decision was exactly what Republicans and business in...   read more

Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who played an instrumental role in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is currently under arrest without criminal charge in Pakistan.   As part of the secret plan to track down and capture bin Laden, the U.S. wa...   read more

Nevada’s attorney general last week expanded her state’s mortgage fraud lawsuit against Bank of America, a move that could have serious consequences for the embattled bank and a potential settlement between national banks and other attorneys gen...   read more

The dire warnings about the financial state of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) may soon become dire reality unless Congress can agree to new financing for the cash-strapped agency.   In what has become an annual refrain, Postmaster General Patric...   read more

In the name of stopping political terror since 9/11, governments worldwide have convicted at least 35,000 people. But how many of these individuals were actually terrorists is unclear, due to the efforts of some countries to use anti-terrorism law...   read more

Standard & Poor’s, the Wall Street rating institution whose integrity already was questioned a few years ago, has decided that securities backed by subprime home loans deserve a higher rating than bonds issued by the federal government.   That...   read more

Since the 9/11 Commission issued its report on the causes of the 2001 attacks, governments at the federal, state and local levels have implemented about 75% of the recommendations put forth by the special panel.   But that’s not good enough, say...   read more

Black Americans continue to have a tougher time finding work than white Americans, according to the latest job figures from the U.S. government.   While the unemployment rate for whites dipped a little in August (to about 8%), the rate for bla...   read more

Visiting inmates in Arizona will now require a $25 background check fee, making the state the first in the nation to require such an expense.   Wendy Baldo, chief of staff for the Arizona Senate, admitted that the money raised from the new fee...   read more

Politics in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh means dealing with Chief Minister Mayawati, for whom the terms ambitious and self-serving don’t even begin to describe.   According to a State Department cable released by WikiLeaks, Mayawati is “a firs...   read more

There could hardly be a worse way to celebrate Labor Day.   The August job numbers weren’t just bad, they were historically bad. The nation produced its first month without job growth since September 1945, just after World War II ended. Unempl...   read more

Funny how politician after politician keeps talking about the necessity to drill for more oil in the U.S., be it in Alaska or in the Gulf of Mexico or on public lands—considering that America has been breaking records this year for exports of pe...   read more

Three years after Wall Street nearly collapsed after investing in risky home loans and dubious securities, the Obama administration has finally decided to go after the nation’s largest banks, as well as several international institutions, for mo...   read more

Illegal immigrants earned $4.2 billion in refundable Additional Child Tax Credits (ACTC) from the IRS in 2010, despite the fact that federal law prohibits unauthorized workers from taking advantage of other tax breaks.   The Treasury Inspector G...   read more