Former dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an undisclosed location near Baghdad, Iraq. Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court after being convicted ... Read More

Iraqi state television has confirmed that the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein has been carried out at an undisclosed location near Baghdad, according to a CNN report. The former dictator ... Read More

The federal government has announced special provisions for the observance of the funeral of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007. Government agencies to ... Read More

Recognizing that their habitat -- polar sea ice -- "may literally be melting," the Department of Interior has recommended that the polar bear be listed as a threatened species under ... Read More

With more than 124 million purchased by collectors since its date of issue in 1993, the Elvis Presley 29-cent commemorative postage stamp reigns as the most popular ever issued by ... Read More

Former President Gerald R. Ford has died at age 93. Ford, the 38th and only un-elected President of the United States died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, following ... Read More

Whether a result of global warming or not, 2006 will likely go down as the nation's third warmest year since climatic recordkeeping began in 1880. According to scientists at NOAA’s ... Read More

The First Session of the 110th U.S. Congress will convene on Jan. 4, 2007. All new and returning members will be sworn in by reciting the following oath of office, ... Read More

The Centers for Disease Control has released its 2003-2004 report on the state of training in U.S. hospitals for dealing with terror-related conditions. Highlights of the full report (.pdf) include: Teaching hospitals ... Read More

Overwhelmed by a growing global demand for his services, Santa Claus turned to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for help this holiday season. Searching for a method of streamlining his Christmas ... Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard is reminding all recreational and commercial boaters that they may not use the 121.5 and 243 MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) after Jan. 7, ... Read More

Twenty-nine years after its own experts first made the recommendation, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed new federal regulations requiring that labels on over-the-counter pain relievers containing acetaminophen ... Read More

In its largest-ever investment in a local transit program, the federal government will provide $2.6 billion to help build a network of train tunnels under New York City designed to ... Read More

American adults and teens will spend nearly five months (3,518 hours) next year watching television, surfing the Internet, reading daily newspapers and listening to personal music devices, according to the ... Read More

"Earmark" spending, often the source massive waste in the federal budget process, would undergo sweeping reform under a proposal being championed by the incoming Chairs of the Senate and House ... Read More

While confirming that planting more trees in the tropical rainforests could help slow global warming, research at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory shows that encouraging new forests in mid- to high-latitude ... Read More

Who's been bad? Who got caught and what's it going to cost them? Here are the latest enforcement reports from the Justice Department. "Girls Gone Wild" fined $1.6 million in sexual ... Read More

While most of Washington frets over the political ramifications of who might replace ailing Sen. Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota), the answer may be "nobody." Despite the unfortunate fact that Sen. Johnson ... Read More

While substantial, U.S. aid to Darfur continues to be hampered by ongoing violence and operational problems, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). As the largest single ... Read More

Americans drove nearly three trillion miles on U.S. highways last year. The 2,989,807,000,000 vehicle miles traveled, represents a 27.4 billion mile increase over travel in 2004 and nearly 25 percent ... Read More

The Justice Department has appealed a ruling by a federal judge requiring the Treasury Department to change the design of U.S. paper currency so that the denomination of bills is ... Read More

Greenhouse gases – mainly carbon dioxide -- produced by the burning of fossil fuels will result in a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017, ... Read More

Following the U.S. coal mining industry’s deadliest year in decades, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has issued new rules (.pdf) requiring mine operators to increase the availability ... Read More

Who's been bad? Who got caught and what's it going to cost them? Here are the latest enforcement reports from the Justice Department. Doctor indicted for illegal distribution of over 1.6 ... Read More

Federal agencies tasked with supporting the Iraq war and the rebuilding of Iraq's infrastructure should order civilian employees to fill vacant key combat zone jobs, according to the recently released ... Read More

The Pentagon has announced that incoming Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert Gates will be sworn in on December 18. The delay, according to the Pentagon, is a result of Gates' ... Read More

The Federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), after an initial review of its "Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation Study (.pdf)," voted to conduct a comprehensive assessment of all claims, charges and ... Read More

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has potentially lost tens of millions of dollars through improper and fraudulent payments issued during its Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relief efforts, according to ... Read More

As the sun came up over the Pacific paradise of Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. Navy Mess Attendant 1st Class Doris "Dorie" Miller did not help cook and serve breakfast as usual. ... Read More

Calling for immediate and extensive diplomatic efforts to reverse a "grave and deteriorating" situation in Iraq, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) today released its final report recommending the United ... Read More

Without suggesting what an "acceptable rate" for such things might be, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that the rate of serious violent crime--rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated ... Read More

The 21-member Senate Armed Services Committee today unanimously approved the nomination of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. The nomination will now undergo final consideration by the full Senate. During his ... Read More

President Bush yesterday accepted the resignation of UN Ambassador John Bolton. Bolton, installed as UN Ambassador by Bush via a controversial recess appointment in July 2005, would have seen his limited ... Read More

"Favorable growing conditions" led to a 60-percent increase in Afghanistan's 2006 opium poppy crop over 2005, according to the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy (ONDP). The latest estimate shows ... Read More

In the early days of the war on terror, U.S. enemy detainees were, like prisoners of war, held for indefinite periods of time without the right to challenge the legality ... Read More

Who's been bad? Who got caught and what's it going to cost them? Here are the latest enforcement reports from the Justice Department. Halliburton-owned Kellogg Brown & Root fined $8 million ... Read More

Despite dire predictions in the spring, not a single Atlantic hurricane has hit the U.S. this year. While critics of the global warming theory were quick to jump on this ... Read More

The U.S. Census Bureau has released nationwide and state-level data from Census 2000 on who does and does not speak English in the United States. The data, broken down by ... Read More