Of the war on terror, President Bush has stated, "Some victories will be won outside of public view, in tragedies avoided and threats eliminated." In the case of U.S. cryptologists ... Read More

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure that would effectively pardon former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, convicted of shooting a fleeing Mexican drug smuggler ... Read More

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been making program payments to farmers who died more than two years ago. That’s not the problem. The USDA is supposed to do ... Read More

Projecting to hire 193,000 new employees over the next two years, the U.S. government is a great place to find a great career. The federal government is the largest single ... Read More

The federal minimum wage officially increases to $5.85 per hour today, marking the first hike in the wages of the nation's lowest paid worker since September 1997, when the rate ... Read More

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that effective August 4, airline passengers will be allowed to fly with common cigarette lighters in their carry-on luggage. Torch-type lighters will still ... Read More

State and local governments will face a financial crisis over the next decade requiring them to either raise taxes by 17 percent or cut spending by 14 percent, according to ... Read More

President Bush responded yesterday to a series of incidents involving safety problems with imported products by creating a multi-agency "Working Group" to identify the steps necessary to ensure the safety ... Read More

Over the next two years, the federal government -- the nation's largest employer -- is projected to hire nearly 193,000 new employees to fill "mission critical" positions in almost every ... Read More

Hoping to reduce the mountainous backlog of passport requests, and stem the flow of calls from angry constituents with blown travel plans, the House of Representatives has passed a bill ... Read More

While more difficult than sending them a letter, visiting your Members of Congress, or their staff, face-to-face is the most effective way to actually influence them. Individuals and groups can ... Read More

In just 28 days, and after only a "cursory review," federal investigators representing a fake firm obtained a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that would allow them ... Read More

Yesterday, President Bush used his presidential "executive privilege" in ordering former White House counsel Harriet Miers to defy a congressional summons ordering her to testify before a Senate panel investigating ... Read More

The National Academies of Science speculate that life, should it exist, on other planets or moons in our solar system could be very different from life on Earth. So different, ... Read More

Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft reconnaissance missions over Iraq and Afghanistan are now being flow by very-remotely located pilots in Fargo, North Dakota -- over 6,400 miles (10,302 kilometers) ... Read More

Inventors Alert: If you come up with the best design for a light-weight, wearable power supply system capable of keeping all the electronic gear carried by the modern ground-soldier running ... Read More

The U.S. Border Patrol is now holding regular public auctions of hundreds of seized and surplus cars and trucks at several location across the southwestern United States. Photographs of all ... Read More

Just in Time for Hurricane Season NASA's QuickScat weather satellite, a key to accurate hurricane track forecasting since 1999, could fail at any moment, and a replacement is not due until ... Read More

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a total of over $30 million to 14 states for demonstrating excellence in administering the Food Stamp Program during 2006. The awards were ... Read More

The General Services Administration (GSA) has announced the results of its 2006-2007 Government-Wide Survey of Citizen Service Activities, intended to identify ways in which the federal government can improve the ... Read More

President Bush spoke of the Fourth of July and the date's significance to our freedom in his latest national radio address. "We remember the spirit of liberty that led men from ... Read More

The Veteran's Administration (VA) has announced plans to establish a 24-hour, national suicide prevention hot line for veterans. Scheduled to begin operations by August 31, 2007, the hotline will be staffed ... Read More

While he voted with the majority in the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that U.S. schools cannot assign students to particular schools based upon their race, Justice Anthony Kennedy offered schools ... Read More

Banks will no longer be required to provide customers with receipts for electronic funds transfer (EFT) transactions of $15 or less under a new rule to be implemented by the ... Read More