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

Life in the country and small towns may be void of the congestion and crime of the big city. But rural living does not necessarily translate into better health, or for that matter better medical care.   The UnitedHealth Center for Health & Ref...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may relax conflict-of-interest rules that keep scientists with financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries from advising the regulatory body.   FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg ack...   read more

The legal saga of environmentalist Tim DeChristopher ended this week when a federal judge sentenced the Utah man to two years in prison for interfering with government auctions of energy leases.   In 2008, DeChristopher crashed a federal sale ...   read more

Realizing it made a big mistake, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided to cancel an expensive radiation-detection system intended to help customs officials foil terrorist attempts to smuggle nuclear bombs or material into the Uni...   read more

It is one of the largest, and certainly most powerful, myths in American politics today: that America’s debt is in the hands of foreigners, primarily the Chinese.   By repeatedly telling the American people that the U.S. national debt is contr...   read more

Non-profits can seek financial assistance from the Department of Homeland Security for buttressing their operations against terrorist attacks. But religious-oriented groups have the best shot of receiving funding from the Urban Areas Security In...   read more

Employment opportunities used to be for people out of work. But in today’s post-recession economy not having a job is an automatic disqualifier, leaving many of the 14 million Americans who are unemployed besides themselves.   The New York Tim...   read more

The Great Recession was hard on a lot of people. But it was especially devastating on minorities who have experienced far greater losses in terms of household wealth than whites did.   Experts at the Pew Research Center found that from 2005 to...   read more

Atheists are suing to have a gigantic Christian cross removed from the former World Trade Center site where a memorial is being developed to those who died on September 11, 2001. The organization American Atheists has filed litigation with the New...   read more

One way to help solve the federal deficit problem is to turn back the clock on tax rates for corporations and the wealthy, which could yield three quarters of a trillion dollars more for the U.S. Treasury annually.   Researchers at the Institu...   read more

Chrysler is no longer government, or entirely American, property now that the Obama administration has finished orchestrating the auto manufacturer’s merger with Italian car company Fiat.   The Department of the Treasury announced last week th...   read more

After a year of investigation, the U.S. military has concluded what was already determined by Congress and the media—that at least some portion of a billion-dollar transportation contract in Afghanistan wound up in the hands of the Taliban.   ...   read more

Individuals missing arms or legs are serving in the U.S. military. Individuals who are blind are also serving. But anyone who’s deaf cannot serve their country, and that’s not okay with Keith Nolan.   Nolan is a high school teacher in Southern...   read more

Dr. Thomas Kosten and his wife, Therese, have spent 20 years developing a vaccine for cocaine addiction. The drug works for some people, the Kostens say, but for others it has an unfortunate tendency to make them consume even more of the narcoti...   read more

Once the U.S. military pulls out of Iraq by next January, the State Department will be left to defend itself and its diplomats against hostile Iraqis. To ensure their safety, officials are assembling a force of 5,500 security contractors—equal i...   read more

As far Democrats and consumer advocates are concerned, John Walsh can’t be replaced fast enough by President Barack Obama.   Walsh has spent the past year running the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which puts him in charge of regul...   read more