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

After going back through their final report and interviewing key participants, NBC News determined that key sections of the 9/11 Commission’s findings were based on information obtained from the CIA’s torturing of suspected terrorists. In fact, it...   read more

The reason President Obama and his supporters gave for refusing to comply with a court order to release 44 photos of the abuse of detainees is that the photos would inflame anti-American sentiment and endanger U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...   read more

Police in Guatemala have freed a Twitter user accused of inciting financial panic. Jean Anleu Fernández, 37, who was arrested on May 14 for posting a 96-character tweet, was released on Q50,000 (roughly $6,500) bail. Most of the money was collecte...   read more

First-term Congressman Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), a former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, accused the Army’s top leaders this week of changing the standards by which service members are awarded the Medal of Honor, noting that not a ...   read more

Prior to being selected by President Barack Obama to lead all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Lt. General Stanley McChrystal led the military’s Special Operations command, and in this capacity, he helped oversee one of the more infamous torture progra...   read more

For a mere $6,100 Americans can have the ultimate toilet in their bathrooms, one that can help everyone from diabetics to women trying (and not trying) to get pregnant. The Intelligence Toilet II, built in Japan, can record data that includes weig...   read more

Regardless of whom Obama nominates to succeed soon-to-retire Justice David H. Souter, Republicans have already stockpiled ammunition against possible nominees. According to Gary Marx, executive director of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Ne...   read more

Concerns over safety made the cul-de-sac popular among suburbanites in the 20th century, but these days a different kind of safety issue is leading communities to do away with dead-end neighborhood streets.   Cul-de-sacs were first built in New ...   read more

Republican appointees to the Federal Election Commission found nothing illegal in the actions by Wal-Mart during last year’s election when the giant retailer was accused of pushing its employees to vote against Barack Obama and other Democrats. Th...   read more

The new director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, has called for an end to the term “war on drugs.” Noting a shift in policy from previous administrations, Kerlikowske aims to focus more on treatment and ...   read more

The length of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is taking its toll on the U.S. military’s ability to provide sufficient numbers of combat soldiers for the continuing conflicts. USA Today reports that fewer soldiers are available to go to war than a...   read more

Whether it’s because of the potential ramifications for U.S. soldiers overseas or for his important upcoming speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4, President Barack Obama is now refusing to release photos of detainees captured in disturbin...   read more

Steven Hutchison of Scottsdale, AZ, had worked for a health care corporation and as a part-time college instructor before hijackers attacked New York City and Washington, DC, in 2001. Following the September 11 attacks, Hutchison wanted to reenlis...   read more

The good news from the latest study on single moms in America is that teenagers don’t account for nearly as many of the unwed births as they used to, according to research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overall,...   read more

Law enforcement officials in Mississippi seized the largest quantity of black market cigarettes in U.S. history last month. Totaling 200 million cigarettes, and valued at $20 million, the bust represented three times the value of all cigarettes se...   read more

While President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead, once again, for military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, U.S. federal courts continue to find serious problems with the legal cases that the government has built against Guantánamo detain...   read more