The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that three new bioenergy research centers located in located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin; and near Berkeley, California, will share $375 million ... Read More

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified and published a fascinating collection of nearly 700 pages of previously secret documents known in the Agency as the "Family Jewels." The Family Jewels ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to locate facilities for testing the new generation of giant wind turbine blades in Texas and Massachusetts. The DOE will contribute ... Read More

The number of "lone wolf" businesses – one-person ventures without a payroll – has reached 20.4 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. According to the Census’ report Nonemployer Statistics: 2005, ... Read More

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) has released a revised version of its Five-Year Research Plan (.pdf), reflecting changes in focus based on events such as Hurricane Katrina. "We took ... Read More

While the Bush administration remains "rightfully concerned" about soaring gasoline prices, it has officially denounced proposed anti-gasoline price gouging legislation as a bad idea for both the U.S. economy and ... Read More

In the Nevada state legislature, where lawmakers never have been happy about the state hosting the Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste repository, they really object to the Department of Energy's ... Read More

Undergraduate and graduate college students who commit to teach in special-needs public schools could qualify for up-front pre-paid tuition assistance of $4,000 per year – up to a maximum of ... Read More

Called by its sponsors "the largest investment in college financial aid since the 1944 GI Bill," the Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (H.R. 2669), would increase college financial aid by ... Read More

DC residents ralleyAlex Wong/Getty Images Residents of the District of Columbia, our nation's capital, may finally get some representation to go with their taxation. A bill now ready ... Read More

If you've ever been around a large animal feed lot you know one thing about them -- they don't smell very good. But does that bad smell necessarily mean bad ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Education has released a report which the Department says may indicate that some states are reducing the difficulty of their standardized student proficiency tests required under ... Read More

Given its ongoing financial challenges, the U.S. government might try what Las Vegas, NV is considering -- paying major companies to use its name. "The City Council brought to you by ... Read More

The Department of the Interior has announced that the U.S. government will award 33 international grants totaling more than $1.7 million to support efforts to protect populations of Asian elephants, ... Read More

Adding fuel to the argument that rising gasoline costs do not reduce consumption comes word from the U.S. Census Bureau that driving to work alone continued to be the nation's ... Read More

To help newly arriving immigrants learn English, find important information about the United States and more easily become a part of the American culture, the federal government has launched the ... Read More

Marines and their families who lived in the Tarawa Terrace family housing units at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from November 1957 through February 1987, received drinking water contaminated with tetrachloroethylene ... Read More

The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has announced the implementation of what the agency calls "surge operations" to tighten security screening of employees at both George Bush Intercontinental and William P. ... Read More

You knew this would come up before the sentence was even handed down. Will President Bush pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby? Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff and national security ... Read More

The California state Assembly has narrowly passed a bill that would fine citizens who fail to have their pets spayed or neutered. The obviously controversial law would allow owners of ... Read More

President Bush confirmed today that he will veto the stem cell research bill given final congressional approval on Thursday. The bill which Bush said "puts scientific research and ethical principle ... Read More

The Bush administration has temporarily suspended recently imposed passport restrictions that resulted in a massive backlog of unprocessed applications and howls of complaints from U.S. citizens whose summer travel plans ... Read More

A bill just introduced by Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) will bring precious joy to investors in precious metals. The Fair Treatment for Precious ... Read More

A single 5-story office building in the Cayman Islands called Ugland House is listed as the address of 12,748 U.S. companies. That's a stretch, and the Senate Finance Committee wants ... Read More

Firearms dealers, collectors, gunsmiths and anyone else involved in the firearms industry will be glad to learn that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) has made the entire ... Read More

Okay geography students, how many oceans are there on Earth and what are their names? If you answered five oceans; the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic and Southern, you are right ... Read More

A major element of the Bipartisan Immigration Reform bill calls for the creation of a massive computerized Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS), based on what the White House calls "unprecedented ... Read More

The U.S. Coast Guard has re-activated its popular storm flag coastal warning program. The red and white storm flags warned boaters and coastal residents of approaching storms for over 100 ... Read More

While lounging on the beach, gazing out to sea, which would you prefer to look at -- oil rigs or windmills? Most people are familiar with the appearance of offshore oil ... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced it has developed "enhanced" security screening procedures for Iraqi refugees applying for resettlement in the United States. Over the full course of the ... Read More