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

Chicago has a lot of things floating around in its drinking water that residents probably shouldn’t be consuming, including the toxic metal hexavalent chromium.   An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that the city’s water contains lev...   read more

It was supposed to attract two million visitors a year and feature a full-scale replica of a slave ship. But the one-of-a-kind, $100-million United States National Slavery Museum is little more than a fading dream, now 10 years on since former V...   read more

Soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who do not belong to a religion will finally get equal time on the rock stage, as base commanders have agreed to allow an atheist-themed concert to take place next year.   Secularists have complained abo...   read more

After two decades of waiting and not getting a vital road resurfaced, hundreds of women in the town of Barbacoas, Colombia, began a sex strike to make their point.   About 300 women decided in June to withhold all sexual favors until the road le...   read more

The nearly 40 military personnel killed on Saturday in Afghanistan may have been lured into a trap by the Taliban employing a relatively new kind of rocket to bring down the helicopter carrying Navy SEALs and others.   The 38 people killed whe...   read more

Rather than expose themselves to U.S. media scrutiny, not to mention the American judicial system, pharmaceutical companies in the United States are increasingly turning to foreign nations to test their new drugs. The trend in outsourced clinica...   read more

It is commonly assumed in the United States that federal law prevents children from working like adults. For the most part this is true. But not when it comes to farming.   Ever since the Great Depression when the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1...   read more

It’s no wonder that during the thick of the Iraq war American soldiers repeatedly purchased their own body armor to protect themselves from insurgent attacks, given the news that the Department of Defense failed to properly test more than five m...   read more

Nearly 10 years after the Anthrax scare that killed five people, postal worker Patrick O’Donnell still has unresolved issues stemming from the horrible incident.   One day in October 2001, after he had been on the job for 12 years, he became i...   read more

To hear Pentagon officials tell the story, the recent agreement to deal with the federal debt by cutting military spending is a potentially catastrophic threat to U.S. security. But if you read between the lines, it doesn’t look so bad after all...   read more

If something is repeated enough times by enough people, it can take on the status of fact. That is until the truth is revealed.   For the controversial drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, better known as “fracking,” in which chemically-la...   read more

A year after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new requirement for universities and medical schools to put up websites disclosing any financial arrangements between corporations and NIH-funded researchers, the Obama administrat...   read more

With the Department of Defense expected to have fewer resources next year, the U.S. Army has announced plans to eliminate more than 8,700 civilian jobs by the end of September 2012.   Army officials have instructed various commands to figure o...   read more

A retired diplomat experienced in handling tough overseas assignments, Ryan Crocker has returned to Afghanistan, where he helped reopen the U.S. embassy following the U.S. invasion in 2001. He was sworn in on July 25, 2011. This is the sixth Isl...   read more

America’s elite Navy SEALs have again borne the worst of the Afghanistan war for the U.S. military, losing 17 commandoes on Saturday in the single deadliest day since the conflict began almost ten years ago.   The SEALs were among 31 who died wh...   read more

In the Yiddish language, a kvetch is a person who is a chronic complainer. Sometimes an accomplished kvetch can end up helping others. Fed up with what it says was incessant complaints, Northwest Airlines gave a rabbi the boot fr...   read more