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

Just in time for spring fashions, the US Air Force is moving closer to adopting a new dress-blues coat for personnel to wear. A group of approximately 360 Air Force men and women were selected to review three different new styles of jacket—two fea...   read more

Crime doesn’t pay, but lobbying sure does. Researchers at the University of Kansas (KU) reviewed expenditures from 2003-2004 when big business blew more than $280 million on lobbyists to convince Congress to pass a one-time tax holiday that lowere...   read more

Comedy fans may remember the movie Born in East L.A., in which Cheech Marin plays a Mexican-American who is caught up in an immigration raid and mistakenly deported to Mexico. Unfortunately, sometimes real U.S. citizens do get detained, and the re...   read more

Approximately 250 holdovers from the Bush administration at the Defense Department had until yesterday to sign President Barack Obama’s ethics pledge, or pack their bags, according to an internal memo issued on Tuesday. In December, the incoming p...   read more

In a reversal of a common trend, a growing number of Americans are crossing the border south into Mexico to take advantage of economic opportunity. These individuals are seeking dental care at costs often 70% less than those in the United States, ...   read more

Demonstrating it has quite a half-life, a “nuclear pork” plan costing $50 billion continued its political emanation when the Senate adopted its version of the 2010 budget last week. The plan, which was slipped in without notice through an amendmen...   read more

A bill to help improve and expand health care services for women veterans, introduced in mid-March, is currently in the process of being referred to the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. According to Betty Moseley Brown, a Marine Corps vetera...   read more

Residents of Laredo, Texas are objecting to a recent Border Patrol decision to spray the Rio Grande river bank with pesticides, claiming that it has echoes of the Agent Orange scandal of the Vietnam War era. Border patrol officials proposed sprayi...   read more

Too little has been known for far too long about cooperatives in the United States, so the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has set out to conduct its own census of this facet of rural America. Cooperatives (businesses that are mutually owned a...   read more

Things are so bad with the Food and Drug Administration’s clinical trial system for approving new drugs that the country is “virtually defenseless” from preventing another Vioxx scandal. This finding, and many others regarding dangerous conflicts ...   read more

Next Wednesday is Tax Day in America—the day dreaded by almost everyone. Unless you’re part of the billion-dollar financial industry that has been lambasted for tanking the economy. According to The Center for Public Integrity, banks and other fin...   read more

Republicans in Virginia’s House of Delegates derailed attempts yesterday by state Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Timothy Kaine (D) to accept $125 million in federal stimulus money that would have provided additional unemployment benefits to many of...   read more

For all their qualms about modernity, the Taliban know how to use the Web. Last week, a blogger discovered that a website, Alemarah1.com, belonging to the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” was hosted in the United States. The Houston-based company...   read more

Of all the alcohol-related deaths in the United States, more than 50% were caused by binge drinking, which is currently defined as consuming five or more alcoholic drinks on one occasion for men and four for women. The U.S. Centers for Disease Con...   read more

An investigation by Salon has found that the U.S. Army is pressuring doctors to not diagnose soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and brain injuries out of concerns over the cost of treating thousands of returning veterans from Iraq...   read more

The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Barack Obama has gone beyond anything the Bush administration tried to do in defending the government’s unauthorized wiretapping of American communications earlier this decade, according to legal sch...   read more