The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has advised people living in homes built with Chinese-made drywall to "spend as much time outdoors in fresh air as possible." Read more...

The National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) has assembled a "forensic document examination team" to do a CSI-like investigation of the handwritten notes H.R. Haldeman kept of his June 20, 1972, Watergate-related meeting with President Richard M. Nixon. Read more...

Worthy of noting at your Thanksgiving dinner, a bill frankly "shutting up" those annoying TV commercials that blast your ears at a volume far above the normal programming took a major step forward in the legislative process last week as the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved H.R. 1084, the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, by a voice vote. Read more...

The U.S. Senate is expected to hold a crucial vote on its version of a health care reform bill Saturday night. The vote, while critical, is not the final vote on the health care reform bill. Read more...