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

Federal transportation officials have decided to not delay three “airline passenger rights” provisions from taking effect this year, much to the consternation of airlines and travel agents.   The new rules require airlines to pay customers mor...   read more

Contrary to the government’s previous assurances, the crippled nuclear power plant in Japan still is leaking lethal amounts of radiation.   The owner of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), said Monday that record hig...   read more

A Dubai-based contractor has been accused of overbilling the Department of Defense by more than $4 million for work in Iraq.   According to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), Anham LLC and its subsidiary, Pioneer Ir...   read more

Opponents of patenting human genes lost a key battle in federal court this week, as a panel of judges overturned a lower court ruling that said the government could not exclusively restrict scientific work on DNA.   The U.S. Court of Appeals f...   read more

The Secret Service pays (quite literally) for the duty of protecting Vice President Joe Biden.   Whenever Biden returns to his waterfront home in Wilmington, Delaware, Secret Service agents stay in a cottage on the property—and pay $2,200 a mo...   read more

For 20 years U.S. Air Force officers training to operate America’s missile silos were instructed on the morality of war and the launching of a nuclear attack—with the aid of quotes from the Bible and a former Nazi SS officer.   The two-decade ...   read more

The effects of the 2008 bad-mortgage crisis continue to ripple their way through the banking industry, with failures this year in two states alone costing taxpayers $2.5 billion.   In Georgia, 16 banks have been rescued by the Federal Deposit ...   read more

Described as a potential nightmare for pharmaceutical companies, a Texas-based laboratory has been found by the Food and Drug Administration to have falsified data for clinical trials over a period of five years.   The findings by the FDA coul...   read more

The U.S. Air Force is planning to hire a private company to provide wire-tapping capabilities to Iraq.   Iraqi officials will be able to eavesdrop on cellular calls and messages “to assist in combating criminal organizations and insurgencies,”...   read more

Asia has been very good to the American cheese industry, driving up U.S. exports of the product faster than they can gobble up fast food.   The price of wholesale cheddar cheese is up 53% this year because the U.S. shipped more than twice as m...   read more

Well, so much for that “impressive” bit of news.   Last month the National Security Agency (NSA) made a big to-do about declassifying a 200-year-old book on cryptology, to demonstrate that the Obama administration was committed to making gover...   read more

In the 10 years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, thousands of survivors have settled their lawsuits against the airlines and other parties, and collected awards totaling billions of dollars. But one family has held out so it can ...   read more

Statistically-speaking, a black man is better off behind bars if he wants to live longer, according to a new study out of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   After examining the health records of African-Americans inside and out...   read more

Federal Judge Richard Bennett made it clear recently just how out-of-bounds the Obama administration was in going after former National Security Agency (NSA) official Thomas Drake for allegedly leaking classified information to the media.   Du...   read more

The authoritarian regime of Belarus, Europe’s last remaining dictatorship, is determined to eradicate all forms of public protest, even those involving people doing nothing but standing around together.   A new law proposed this week would ban...   read more

This month’s most popular stories dealt with the mysterious suspension of a scientist, the Obama administration’s refusal to punish torturers and questions about Michele Bachmann’s husband. There were also two items from our Unusual News Categor...   read more