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

After 30 years in the Foreign Service, Arnold A. Chacon received his first appointment as ambassador, to Guatemala, in June 2011. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 2.   Originally from Denver, Chacon is a graduate of the University of C...   read more

Chan Heng Chee has served as Singapore’s ambassador to the United States since July 1996.     Born circa 1942, Chan Heng Chee earned her B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1964 and 1966, respe...   read more

The whole point of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to keep tabs on Wall Street, by making sure banks and other financial institutions and firms are abiding by the law. If suspected of not behaving lawfully, then investigations ar...   read more

In yet another effort to restrict the availability of the medical procedure, conservatives in Kansas are trying to ban insurance companies from providing elective abortion coverage.   The new law, adopted by the state legislature and supported...   read more

On top of the fact that many large banks rescued in 2008 failed to provide substantial assistance to struggling homeowners and small businesses, many of the same institutions are now gobbling up tax liens from teetering homeowners, which may exa...   read more

Having already spent heavily on security contractors to protect diplomats, the State Department has now taken over a $230 million contract from the U.S. Army for L-3 Communications to conduct intelligence gathering in Iraq.   The transfer was ...   read more

Teenagers from Gaza hoping to study in the U.S. have been forbidden to leave, on orders from Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip.   Eight students were given AMIDEAST scholarships to spend a year in America. But, according to the P...   read more

They supervised a controversial program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of drug traffickers, all in the name of law enforcement tracking, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials still managed to get p...   read more

The dictionary defines combat as “to oppose in battle; fight against” or “to engage in fighting.” On August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama announced that the United States’ combat mission in Iraq was finished. However, based on what the U.S. m...   read more

Faced with putting graphic anti-smoking images on their packs and cartons, tobacco companies have filed suit to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new requirements on the marketing of cigarettes.   In June, the FDA issued the fi...   read more

Common sense would dictate that a country that’s spent 10 years fighting two different wars would at least keep track of the fiscal sacrifice that’s been made. But the truth is that Uncle Sam really can’t say for sure how deep it’s had to dig to...   read more

They supervised a controversial program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of drug traffickers, all in the name of law enforcement tracking, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials still managed to get pro...   read more

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to help animal rights advocates stop a wild-horse roundup by using the argument that the capture had already taken place.   At issue was the 2010 round-up of more than 2,000 wild horses and 200 wild b...   read more

Concerns over the reliability and loyalty of Pakistan’s government in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda are well established. But the compromised nature of Pakistan’s military and intelligence service has not stopped U.S. defense contra...   read more

Humans are responsible for about half of the recent melting of polar ice, according to scientists at the nation’s leading climate research center.   Using supercomputers and advanced climate models, scientists at the National Center for Atmosp...   read more

The Department of Defense’s inspector general is launching a series of audits aimed at examining all contracts issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since Regina Dugan became its director in June 2009. DARPA funds proje...   read more