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

Former IRA prisoner Pol Brennan is set to be deported May 18. His only hope of staying in the US is if Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano grants him a special deportation waiver due to the hardship his deportation would cause his Amer...   read more

If President Barack Obama manages to serve two terms in office, he will leave the White House just as the nation’s most important health care program collapses—based on current projections and if nothing is done to shore up Medicare. It’s not exac...   read more

A staple of American breakfasts since World War II, Cheerios has run afoul of the Food and Drug Administration. For two years now, the maker of the cereal, General Mills, has claimed on Cheerios boxes that its product can “lower your cholesterol 4...   read more

The Department of Energy, overseer of the nation’s most toxic cleanup operation, allowed a private contractor to authorize its own payments for work billed to the government, according to the department’s inspector general (IG). The audit that tur...   read more

When the federal government decided to deregulate the airline industry in the late 1970s, it had to ensure that small town America wasn’t left behind once commercial carriers were given the right to decide where they flew and how much to charge....   read more

Nearly half of the billion dollars the U.S. government spends each year on office printing is unnecessary, according to a new survey. Federal employees spend $1.3 billion annually printing out documents, much of which they don’t really need. The p...   read more

After 110 days in office, President Obama is trying to take a big step in reversing an important trend that he opposed during the presidential election campaign. The new proposed federal budget, which was released last week, outlines the administr...   read more

The American people have spoken. As President Barack Obama’s transition team wrapped things up before he officially took office in January, staffers compiled a list of the most pressing issues facing the country, based on feedback from the populac...   read more

Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, the man who told of a phony connection between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while being tortured, has died in a Libyan prison, allegedly of suicide. Al-Libi was the unnamed source that former Secretary o...   read more

The U.S. military has launched a full-scale public relations battle over an attack in Afghanistan last week that apparently involved a chemical outlawed by international treaties. At issue is who used white phosphorus on the people of Farah provin...   read more

In April 2009, President Obama proposed Carlos Pascual as the next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. This was a controversial choice because his specialty is not Latin America, but rather converting newly independent or failed states to democracy and fre...   read more

Throughout the United States’ “War on Terror,” various services have been contracted out to private firms. These service contracts, which can range from equipment and weapons manufacturing to diplomatic security details, are often awarded without ...   read more

“Who’s next?” was the question being asked by Wall Street executives and consumer advocates alike following the landmark decision by Goldman Sachs & Company to pay up to $60 million for brokering risky home loans during the subprime mortgage craze...   read more

Andy Ostroy, Democrat and entrepreneur, thinks the Internet is largely to blame for not only the current economic troubles, but also the fraying of the nation’s social fabric. It all boils down to that nasty word: free. The Internet is all about t...   read more

In the midst of the U.S. economic downturn, China has surpassed the United States as Brazil’s biggest trading partner, a role the U.S. has played for the last 70-80 years. In April, the sum of China’s trade with Brazil reached $3.2 billion, exceed...   read more

Of all the torture techniques banned by President Barack Obama, the one that CIA leaders wanted most to retain was sleep deprivation. The reason was two-fold: sleep deprivation was both effective in getting suspected terrorists to talk, and it was...   read more