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

Florida’s highly-publicized drug-testing experiment for welfare recipients has so far not produced the results proponents anticipated. In fact, the welfare applicants are testing positive at a lower rate than the general population of the state....   read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has rejected safety advocates’ attempt to mandate shoulder-lap seat belts in large school buses. Such seat belts are required on smaller school buses.   Nearly a half-million school bu...   read more

The United States is not doing enough to prevent domestic violence, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).   The anti-U.S. ruling by the IACHR, which is part of the Organization of American States, marked the first...   read more

On August 2, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Nancy M. Ware to serve as the Director of the District of Columbia Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), a large agency that supervises offenders who are on probation, parole,...   read more

The latest release of government files from WikiLeaks shows that the State Department has repeatedly pushed foreign governments to approve genetically-engineered crops and promote the international business interests of corporations like Monsanto ...   read more

Despite the prevalence of recycling programs throughout the country, the United States has been anything but “green” when it comes to disposing its old computers, cell phones and other electronics. The U.S. government has had two decades to beco...   read more

It’s safe to say that the dozen members of Congress charged with coming up with a plan for trimming $1.5 trillion from the federal budget won’t lack for input from lobbyists.   It turns out that the six Republicans and six Democrats on the Joi...   read more

Paul D. Wohlers, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Balkan nation of Macedonia on August 2, 2011. Wohlers has previous experience in Macedonia.    Born circa 1952, Wohlers graduated from the ...   read more

Lewis Lukens, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, has served as the U.S. ambassador to Senegal and to Guinea-Bissau since July 11, 2011. As the son of a diplomat, Lukens once lived in Senegal as a child.   His father, Alan W. Lukens...   read more

Two Secret Service agents involved in the arrest of a Colorado man for supposedly assaulting Vice President Dick Cheney in 2006 have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The agents insist they are immune from a First Amendment lawsuit filed by St...   read more

On August 2 researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs published a paper that concluded the anti-psychotic drug, risperidone, was no more effective than a placebo when it came to helping veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress dis...   read more

Being known as a facilitator of secret police and torturers is not ideal branding for any company. But that is the reputation that Germany’s Siemens and Finland’s Nokia are developing, as a result of their partnership that’s provided spy technol...   read more

John Heffern, a career diplomat who has spent much of his career working in East Asia, was nominated in May 2011 to serve as ambassador to Armenia. However, his nomination has been held up by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) as a protest agai...   read more

It took almost eight months after his nomination, but veteran Foreign Service officer David B. Shear officially became the ambassador to Vietnam, on August 4, 2011. Shear’s appointment was held up after Senators from both parties placed multiple...   read more

Supposedly for the sake of stabilizing world oil prices, but also at the expense of creating American jobs, the Obama administration decided this summer to use foreign-owned ships to transport oil from the U.S. stockpile. The big winners in the ...   read more

After consistently denying any responsibility for cyber attacks directed at the United States, China aired a television documentary that contradicts the longstanding denials.   On a state-run television program, the documentary about computer ...   read more