The Veterans Administration (VA) has announced it will conduct its first in-depth study of the effects of military service on the women veterans who served during the Vietnam War. Read more...

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...