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

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that the social network has welcomed its 200 millionth user. That means that Facebook Nation now has a larger population than Brazil, and trails only China, India, The United States and Indon...   read more

Congress never makes a move regarding health care without first considering the financial costs involved. But the latest twist on the cost-benefit question raises the point of whether the nation would be better off—from a purely bottom-line perspe...   read more

Turns out “Buy American” does not apply to condoms. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has decided to end its contract with Alabama-based Alatech Healthcare Products for the condoms it distributes overseas, and instead will buy th...   read more

Consumer and civil rights groups are beside themselves over a decision by the Justice Department to pick up where the Bush administration left off in defending banks accused of having racist lending practices. Later this month, President Barack Ob...   read more

A three-judge panel has ordered a Brazilian rancher to again stand trial for the murder of Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old nun from Ohio who was murdered in 2005 while campaigning to save the Amazon rainforest. Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura was first tri...   read more

It might be difficult to find a more irate judge in the country right now than U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has publicly scolded the Justice Department over the shady legal practices of government attorneys handling the cases of Guantán...   read more

David Cullen was one of the many reporters who dashed to Littleton, Colorado, when word first got out about the shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. But unlike his media counterparts, Cullen, who was then working for Salon.com, wou...   read more

One of the most challenging class action cases ever pursued against a pharmaceutical company has resulted in a $75 million settlement by Pfizer, which was accused of illegally testing a drug on African children. During a meningitis epidemic in Nig...   read more

While CIA agents tortured suspected terrorists at secret facilities, medical personnel were not only present, but assisted in the interrogations, thus committing a “gross breach of medical ethics,” according to a previously confidential report by ...   read more

An important new command, charged with keeping track of the US Air Force’s nuclear weapons, will be stationed in Louisiana, much to the chagrin of politicians in Nebraska. Barksdale Air Force Base was selected by the Air Force to host the Global S...   read more

Youssef Megahed, a 23-year-old Tampa resident and citizen of Egypt, was arrested on an immigration warrant on April 6, just three days after a jury acquitted the former Florida State student of federal charges of transporting explosives and posses...   read more

According to the Hay Group, a management consulting firm that analyzed proxy statements for companies with annual revenues exceeding $5 billion, the median salaries and bonuses for the top executives of 200 large United States-based companies fell...   read more

A recent study by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control has found potentially dangerous levels of perchlorate, a chemical used in rocket fuel, in powered infant formula. Exposure to perchlorate damages the thyroid and might potentially imp...   read more

The American-Pakistani campaign to eliminate the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan has created an enormous humanitarian crisis affecting one million people who have fled their homes to escape the fighting, including 546,000 who have already registe...   read more

While every indicator about the economy continues to look dreary, one set of statistics is downright life-preserving, thanks in large part to the recession. Last year, the fewest motorists in almost 50 years died on the nation’s highway—37, 313—re...   read more

In a move that outraged Jewish members of the U.S. military, the U.S. Army’s Chief of Chaplains issued a proclamation shortly before Passover that called upon all Army personnel to participate in a “day of prayer and fasting” on the first night of...   read more