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

Any prison break involving nearly 60 inmates is enough to make the news, even in a Mexican border town where drug cartels dictate what gets reported.   In Nuevo Laredo, where drug smugglers regularly threaten reporters, editors and publishers ...   read more

America’s military is expected to defend the country regardless of the direction of attack, whether it is by land, air, sea, outer space or cyberspace. And like the War on Terror that never ends, this is a battlefield that is never abandoned.   ...   read more

Mankind’s taste for tuna has pushed the majority of the fish species to the brink of endangerment, according to a group of international environmentalists.   The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed five of the eigh...   read more

Following release of a study linking a controversial coal-mining technique to birth defects, industry lawyers responded by insinuating the health problem was just as likely caused by inbreeding among local residents.   “The study failed to acc...   read more

With World Cup soccer coming in 2014, Brazil has decided to try to clean up its reputation as a leader in sexual tourism, especially that involving children.   The nation’s human rights minister, Maria Nunes, has vowed to close down illegal bu...   read more

Sheila Siwela was appointed as Zambia’s ambassador to the United States on June 25, 2010.   She earned a diploma in Social Work from the University of Zambia, a bachelor’s degree in Administration from Canada’s University of Western Ontario, a...   read more

Conservative lawmakers across the country have a friend in ALEC, otherwise known as the American Legislative Exchange Council. The right-wing nonprofit group has crafted legislation for state lawmakers to push key policy ideas and help make cons...   read more

American oil corporation ConocoPhillips has been accused of conspiring with the Chinese government to cover up a large oil spill in the Bohai Bay.   Activists say two spills occurred in June from oil platforms owned by ConocoPhillips’ China subs...   read more

Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah got into hot water this week with the Department of Homeland Security for disclosing the fact that there have been 25,000 breaches of security at U.S. airports since 2001, although it’s questionable the numbe...   read more

Montenegro’s ambassador to the United States since November 2010, Srdjan Darmanovic knows a thing or two about strategy, both the diplomatic kind and that used on a chess board.   Born in 1961, Darmanovic served in the former Yugoslavia’s federa...   read more

Robert E. Patterson, Jr. has been U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan since May 2011.   A native of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Patterson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College, MA and MPhil degrees from Columbia University and an MA ...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy new radiation-detection equipment at a cost of more than $300 million, although it has not fully tested the devices which may not work.   Once touted by the Bush administration as the answer to pr...   read more

Environmentalists loathe the rush to develop Canada’s vast oil sands reserves containing an enormous amount of crude and a wealth of potential harm to North American ecology.   Within the province of Alberta is an estimated 171.3 billion barre...   read more

Pirating on the high seas is not yielding the same results as last year, though not for lack of trying.   So far this year pirates have carried out 266 attacks, up from 196 incidents during the first six months of 2010. But the increased effort ...   read more

Appointed ambassador to Kenya in February 2011, Scott Gration spent most of his professional career in the U.S. Air Force, before serving as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Sudan—a job he bungled, according to critics.   The son of mis...   read more

Bayney Ram Karran has served as Guyana’s ambassador to the United States since December 2003. Concurrently, he has been Guyana’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).   Prior to becoming a diplomat, Karran spen...   read more