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 almost two decades, the American public finally was able to witness the return of a fallen soldier last Saturday when the body of an airman arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers was killed in Afgh...   read more

Most Americans grumble about the taxes they pay to the federal government, but for many, state taxes are at least as burdensome. A recent Census Department release of tax revenue by state for the years 2007 and 2008 reveals that 2008 saw a dramati...   read more

World leaders attending last week’s G-20 summit took three big steps backwards with their solutions for solving the current international economic crisis, according to John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, and Robin Broad, p...   read more

As if the economy wasn’t experiencing enough trouble already, a “monstrous problem” may be heading this way later this year. That’s when estimated 700,000 unemployed Americans are expected to run out of their unemployment benefits, with most unlik...   read more

A group of scientists has discovered evidence that once again raises the question of what caused the World Trade Center towers to collapse after two jetliners slammed into them on September 11, 2001. The conventional theory that burning jet fuel c...   read more

A former federal litigator who investigated the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s has accused Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner of being a part of cover-up attempts by banking executives to conceal large-scale fraud that has left many...   read more

To date, 13 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington) have adopted laws legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Most of these states ado...   read more

While drug-related violence continues to spiral out of control in Mexico, the federal government has dallied in its efforts to spend more than a billion dollars that Congress authorized to fight drug trafficking south of the border. Out of $1.4 bi...   read more

Because the federal government leases public lands to ranchers to graze livestock, conflicts often develop between wild animals and domesticated cattle and sheep. Grazing leases have economic value and ranchers often sell them to one another, and ...   read more

A new bestselling book, Unhappy China, is stirring debate in China and alarm in the West because of its aggressive nationalism. Millions of web pages have sprung up to address the book since its release last month. In the book, five Chinese schola...   read more

The financial crisis in the United States seems to be having a direct effect on Guatemala’s economy. Remittances from Guatemalan migrants in the United States to their native country in Central America have dropped dramatically in the past year. A...   read more

Questions remain unanswered following the discovery of the body of Deputy U.S. Marshal Vicente Paul Bustamante. Bustamante, 48, was found dead Wednesday, March 25, in an irrigation canal in east Juárez, Chihuahua. He had multiple gunshot wounds to...   read more

Drowsy driving has become a growing concern among drivers and lawmakers alike and is finally beginning to receive the kind of attention that drunk driving started to receive 30 years ago. Recent studies have shown that drowsy driving causes betwee...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge not to hire lobbyists in his administration has not prevented potential conflicts-of-interest for some of his key advisers. Take, for instance, Lawrence Summers. As chairman of the National Economic Council, Summers...   read more

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing hard to be given broad new powers over the financial industry, arguing, “We’re having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision.” This is the same Timothy Geithner who previo...   read more

In recent years, the world has had to come to terms with the fact that pirates are not just a romantic phenomenon of another era, but still exist today. Now Americans are seeing the return of another lost category of criminals: cattle rustlers. Ca...   read more