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

A congressional investigation has determined that approximately 25% of Americans living overseas, mostly soldiers, who tried to vote in 2008 did not have their votes recorded by state officials. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee and th...   read more

A recent release of emails among members of the American Psychological Association (APA) has revealed the group’s discussion of the ethics behind the role that psychologists played in designing torture tactics used at interrogation facilities, suc...   read more

Medicare is “a monster,” says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, but not one that can’t be fixed. Keeping Medicare from going bust before the end of the next decade will require slowing the rate of growth of medical costs, and that problem requi...   read more

For months, Americans sat by and watched as the banking and finance industry, in the wake of their self-induced meltdown, got just about everything they wanted from both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. Now it’s the turn of th...   read more

A $2.2 billion initiative to help the homeless breezed through the Senate with widespread bipartisan support. Co-sponsored by Senator Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-Missouri) and  Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), the bill shifts the focus  to provid...   read more

With tuition fees rising throughout the country, it’s worth taking a look at a report done by Mental Floss’ Scott Allen on eight colleges that offer tuition-free educations.   1.      College of the Ozarks Students attending College of the Ozar...   read more

Last month, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that it will loan Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest private carrier airline, $238 million to purchase thirty new Boeing 737-900ER planes, and an additional $841 million, up...   read more

A long time Latino civil rights attorney, John Trasviña was confirmed as the assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity on May 1, 2009. He comes to the Department of Housing and Urban Development after serving as president of the M...   read more

Arguing that credit card companies are acting more like loan sharks than businesses, Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) wants to cap interest rates on consumer credit cards at 15%. But the majority of his Senate colleagues, including many Democrats, b...   read more

Torture saved America. That’s essentially what former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials want everyone to believe. But according to Ali Soufan, one of the FBI’s top experts on al Qaeda—a man who personally interroga...   read more

The U.S. Social Security Administration has released the top 1000 names for boys and girls born in the United States; in fact, its website provides the rankings of each name from as far back as 1882. In 2008, Emma finally hit #1, dethroning Emily,...   read more

Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winning democracy advocate who has spent much of the past two decades under house arrest, is scheduled to go on trial May 18 for violating the terms of her confinement. Media reports say Suu Kyi got into t...   read more

Add water to the list of vital necessities that American soldiers have had to do without while fighting the war in arid Iraq. In addition to lacking sufficient body armor and explosive-proof vehicles, U.S. soldiers have at times gone without enoug...   read more

The two American journalists from Current TV, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were arrested in North Korea on March 17th, are now facing trial in early June. The women have been indicted on charges of illegally entering the country and for committing...   read more

President Barack Obama has quietly presented a proposal that would allow him to bypass Congress in his efforts to reduce global warming. It is the “Endangerment Finding,” which is a scientific finding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) d...   read more

If confirmed by the Senate, the Treasury Department’s top lawyer will earn nearly ten times more in compensation from his former employer than he will from his government salary. George W. Madison has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be...   read more