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

Private security and logistics contractors who come home wounded from Afghanistan and Iraq face an insurance-created nightmare, according to a joint investigation by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times. Unlike wounded members of the US military, ...   read more

“Holy crap” was the response, in all seriousness, by one Washington state environmental expert upon learning that the source pollution in a long contaminated stream flowing through Vancouver City was none other than her own office’s bathrooms. The...   read more

Wesam al-Delaema, a 36-year-old Iraqi-born citizen of the Netherlands, became the first Iraq war insurgent to be prosecuted in an American court on Thursday, receiving a 25-year sentence for plotting to kill US soldiers. But al-Delaema will not se...   read more

As President Barack Obama arrives in Trinidad for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, one of the key issues to be discussed will be the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba. Despite the fact that Americans are legally banned from visiting Cuba, there is...   read more

When it comes to toxic assets, Lehman Brothers has got everyone beat on Wall Street. Thanks to a commodities trading contract from before it went bankrupt, Lehman is sitting on half a million pounds of uranium “yellowcake”—enough material to power...   read more

With the recent economic plunge and the steep rise in unemployment, more and more Americans are being affected. Stay-at-home moms, who had previously set their resumes down in exchange for being with the children as they grew up, are now being for...   read more

The secret trial of freelance journalist Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American arrested in Tehran in January, began on Monday. Charged with spying for the United States, Saberi went to Iran six years ago, filing reports for the BBC and National Publi...   read more

A uranium isotope is a uranium isotope, regardless of its country of origin. But for two Democratic congressmen, there’s a problem with low-level nuclear waste from Italy being dumped in Utah, even though plenty of radioactive refuse has already b...   read more

One would think that in an era of greater demand for shrinking resources, no government agency would oppose a plan to save water. But the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which services Las Vegas and Clark County, is just such an agency.   Water...   read more

Dwight Eisenhower was still in his first term the Oval Office the last time the nation experienced a drop in consumer prices, until now. The Labor Department reported this week that the Consumer Price Index, used to measure the rate of inflation, ...   read more

The Bush administration insisted its anti-drug efforts by federal law enforcement were succeeding because of reported spikes in the price of cocaine—an indicator that counter-narcotics raids were causing a shortage in the drug market. But the Wash...   read more

The economic downturn, coupled with changing social perceptions and escalating drug violence in Mexico, has sparked national interest in legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana consumption. A 2005 study by Harvard University economist Jeffrey ...   read more

For all the faults that are levied on illegal immigrants in the United States, one thing they can’t be knocked for is their propensity for nuclear families. In a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, it wa...   read more

When Steven Howards spotted Vice President Dick Cheney in a mall in Beaver Creek, CO, in June 2006, he decided to give him a piece of his mind over the Iraq War. But after approaching Cheney, Howards found himself being hauled off by Secret Servic...   read more

What started out as an attempt to save money on energy bills has turned into a productivity bonanza for Utah’s state government. In the summer of 2008, as gas prices soared, state officials decided to mandate a four-day workweek for all state civi...   read more

VS Acharya, a minister in the Indian state of Karnataka and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was driving through his district last Sunday when he noticed a political rally being held. Like any good politician, Acharya saw an opportunity...   read more