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

The destructive earthquake that struck Italy two weeks ago has produced one small, but important piece of good news for art conservationists and residents of the village of Rocca di Cambio. Like many of the buildings in the small mountainous town,...   read more

According to a recent study conducted by the Washington D.C.-based Sentencing Project, a demographic shift is taking place with regards to those sentenced for drug offenses. Between 1999 to 2005 there was a 22% decrease in the number of black drug...   read more

The conservation organization American Rivers has released its 2009 report on America’s Most Endangered Rivers. At the top of the list sits the Sacramento- San Joaquin River System in California, which supplies drinking water  to almost 25 million...   read more

The growing use of robots by the U.S. military to reduce battlefield casualties is coming at the expense of civilians, and it could have ramifications as well for the ability of the government to sell future wars to the American people. In 2008, t...   read more

Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American accused of spying on behalf of the United States, was sentenced to eight years in prison over the weekend by a secret tribunal in Iran. Saberi’s sentence was the most severe of those handed down by Iran’s judicia...   read more

The last time Californians were enduring a worst spate of unemployment than now was January 1941, according to the latest figures released by the state Employment Development Department. The jobless rate for March hit 11.2% in California, only fiv...   read more

In an unusual appeal for help, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has begun tapping into university and college marketing programs in an effort to revamp its image and expand recruitment. The Bush Administration mandated the National Clandestin...   read more

The ball is now in Congress’ court following a decision on Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency to declare carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions a danger to the public’s health. President Barack Obama would prefer that Congres...   read more

Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has been asked by lawyers of one Guantánamo Bay detainee not to dismantle the secret prisons used to interrogate suspected terrorists. The counsel for Abd al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed al-Nash...   read more

On Monday, the first ladies of fifteen African nations will gather in Beverly Hills for The African First Ladies Summit and Gala— a two-day meeting (April 20-21) that will focus on combating HIV/AIDs and will also address women’s issues. They will...   read more

Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) releases a list of the top 10 books libraries or schools have been asked to ban. According to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, 513 complaints were filed in 2008 from individuals or groups cla...   read more

Although they shed new light on the secret authorizations of the Bush administration, the Justice Department memos released last Friday are, to a certain extent, just the tip of the iceberg. According to an assessment by ProPublica, there remain a...   read more

A new push for federal funding of genetically-modified (GM) crops has touched off a battle among non-profit organizations seeking to help developing countries and ease world hunger. On one side is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Chicag...   read more

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) made an unusual move last week in attempting to save the failing New Frontier Bank in Greeley, CO. Normally, the FDIC finds a larger bank to buy the floundering bank and the problem is solved withou...   read more

In a move with ominous implications for Constitutional rights in the United States, President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that his administration would not prosecute CIA employees or contractors who participated in the torturing of detainee...   read more

The Department of Justice on Thursday released four declassified memos authored during the Bush administration that were used to justify the methods of torture to be used against suspected terrorists. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had ...   read more