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

Before its landmark collapse in May 2009, Silverton Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, provided its board of directors with extravagant perks, including private jets, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).   FDIC lawyers are now suing ...   read more

After paying several thousand dollars just to get there, students from around the world have been spending their summer in Central Pennsylvania, packaging Hershey’s candies for low wages and long hours. They came to the U.S. on the promise of ex...   read more

Apparently former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made quite an impression on former dictator Muammar Gaddafi when she visited Libya three years ago.   As rebels ransacked Gaddafi’s compound this week, they found a photo album brimming with ...   read more

In an attempt to please Wall Street, the Obama administration is pressuring state attorneys general to accept a deal being brokered with big banks over their illegal and unethical foreclosure practices.   One AG in particular, New York’s Eric ...   read more

By war-on-terror standards, the U.S. involvement in Libya was a real bargain, according to new figures released by the Department of Defense.   After months of helping rebels take down Muammar Gaddafi, the U.S. has wound up paying just under $...   read more

Federal prosecutors are still investigating BP’s underestimated oil-spill numbers that were released during last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.   The Department of Justice is examining whether BP officials deliberately withheld data from t...   read more

Risperdal, an anti-psychotic drug used to treat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is about as effective as a placebo, say medical researchers.   Experts with the Department of Veterans Affairs published a paper in the...   read more

The Fairness Doctrine was officially erased from the books of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday. Established in 1949, the rule required broadcasters to present controversial issues in a balanced manner that included opposing ...   read more

News of Goldman Sachs’ top executive hiring a defense attorney caught investors off-guard on Monday, causing Goldman’s shares to fall in value and leaving Wall Street wondering what’s next for the nation’s largest investment bank.   Lloyd Blankf...   read more

When the financial crisis of 2008 erupted and threatened to take down Wall Street’s biggest institutions, the federal government rode to the rescue, with even more money than was previously disclosed. In addition to the well-publicized disbursem...   read more

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, which became famous for trying to save the life of President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in 1963, has spiraled into a morass of poor medical care and faulty practices. Federal regulators are ...   read more

The United States’ leading food-assistance program has expanded by nearly 75% over the past four years, demonstrating the crippling effect of the Great Recession on a large segment of American society.   Today, there are almost 46 million peop...   read more

In eight years of warfare, the Iraq campaign has cost the United States many of its youngest men. Almost 1,300 of the more than 4,400 American troops killed in the Iraq war have been aged 18 to 21. More than half were in the lowest enlisted ranks....   read more

It is one of the most guarded statistics in corporate America today: the number of jobs available overseas versus the total within the United States.   Many large companies refuse to divulge their figures to the U.S. government, including Hewlet...   read more

Drug-abuse opponents want to know why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has dithered for a dozen years over tightening controls of hydrocodone, the nation’s second-most abused medicine (behind oxycodone). It is the primary ingredient of Vic...   read more

Florida’s 17th congressional district could use some help.   Correction, make that a lot of help.   The predominantly African-American district, which includes portions of inner-city Miami, including Liberty City, was recently determined to ha...   read more