With their party now in control of Congress, Senate Democrats are ready to try again to enact a law allowing the use of human embryos in stem cell research. The ... Read More

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously approved a resolution that would call on all European nations to allow full and open access to the Holocaust archives in Bad Arolsen, ... Read More

Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed a new state law that will allow Texans to use deadly force "without retreat" when defending themselves inside their homes, cars and workplaces. The ... Read More

What does the U.S. government have going for it when it comes to public sales and auctions? Diversity. From Treasury bills to wild horses and houses, you name it and ... Read More

The Census Bureau has acknowledged that it overestimated the number of Americans without any form of health insurance by 1.8 million people. In August 2006, the Census Bureau reported that ... Read More

Last Friday, the House of Representatives voted 218-212 in favor of the bill H.R. 1591 - the emergency supplemental spending bill for fiscal year 2007. The vote was unusually close, ... Read More

he Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a Web page offering frequently asked questions and answers on the Menu Pet Foods recall. On March 16, Menu Foods, Inc. of ... Read More

Can the people have too much freedom of information? They can, claimed the Lake Travis, Texas school board, when one party filed more than 2,200 public records requests, including 329 ... Read More

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have discovered that the watermelon, long a staple of summertime picnics and barbecues, is also a bountiful source of things that are ... Read More

Priceless works of art stored in the museums of the Smithsonian Institution are at risk of damage and deterioration, according to a report released yesterday by the External Review Committee ... Read More

The more than 100 executive branch agencies of the U.S. government currently employ about 2.7 million full-time civilian workers – or about 2 percent of the total U.S. workforce – ... Read More

In just 6 months -- 18 months faster than usual -- the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued the first patent processed under its accelerated examination program that ... Read More

If you've been in suspended animation for the last couple of weeks, you may have missed the story of how the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys by some or all ... Read More

Because of a new terror-fighting law causing what the State Department calls an "unprecedented demand," Americans now face waiting times of as long as ten weeks to be issued a ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested that all makers of drugs intended to induce or maintain sleep strengthen the labeling of those drugs to warn consumers of their ... Read More

The average yearly cost to taxpayers of the major federal regulations issued so far during the Bush administration is about 47 percent less than over the previous 20 years, according ... Read More

Good genes, bad genes: On March 7, the USDA recommended that a California-based company be allowed to grow 3,000 acres of genetically-modified rice in Kansas. The very next day, the ... Read More

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a site permit for construction of the nation's first new nuclear power plant in over 30 years. The Department of Energy hails the ... Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has come down on the side of the rights of individuals to own firearms in striking down parts of Washington, D.C.'s ... Read More

Synchronize your watches, most of America, because daylight saving time will begin at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, three weeks earlier than in recent years. At that time, clocks ... Read More

The U.S. Census Bureau has acknowledged that it accidentally posted personal data collected from 302 U.S. households on one of the Agency’s publicly-accessible Web sites. The data, which contained names, addresses, ... Read More

If you had income during 2003, but failed to file a tax return, you’ve either been bad or have part of $2.2 billion in unclaimed refunds waiting for you at ... Read More

"Scooter" Libby, Vice President Chaney's former chief of staff, has been found guilty of obstruction of justice, perjury and lying to the FBI . Libby could face up to 30 ... Read More

To their lawmakers, Minnesotans did relate, "We have no poet laureate!" "We need a law!" the cry arose, "And let it not be penned in prose!" So the learned solons did assemble, And with their minds ... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly extended the deadline by which states must issue new high-tech, terror-fighting and very expensive driver’s licenses in order to comply with the ... Read More

In the growing congressional debate over the future of the war in Iraq, freshman Rep. Patrick Murphy argues from a unique perspective. The 33-year-old Democrat from Pennsylvania's 8th District is ... Read More

Across the United States, as many as 754,000 persons are homeless on any given night, according to a massive new report on the scope of homelessness in America just issued ... Read More

Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters has asked the DOT’s Inspector General to conduct an official review of two recent cases in which Jet Blue and American Airlines passengers were ... Read More