Once in a while, even the FBI gets playful. Case in point, the public challenge just issued by their cryptanalysis, or code breaking division, to correctly translate this coded message. No, ... Read More

The standard mileage deduction for business use of a passenger vehicle will increase from 48.5 to 50.5 cents per mile beginning Jan. 1, 2008, according to the Internal Revenue Service ... Read More

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has proposed extending indefinitely the current five-year registration period for telephone numbers listed on the telemarketer-busting and wildly popular, National Do-Not-Call Registry. Under the new FCC ... Read More

Responding to a request by leaders of the new democratic Iraqi government to form "an enduring relationship with America," the White House yesterday issued a "U.S.-Iraq Declaration of Principles for ... Read More

The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard report that their year-old biometrics-at-sea program has resulted in a nearly 50 percent reduction in the flow of illegal aliens ... Read More

FEMA officials must be wondering if Hurricane Katrina will ever blow over. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that FEMA lost another $30 million taxpayer dollars through "ineffective oversight" ... Read More

In efforts to curb global warming, states and even cities have boldly gone where the federal government has merely dabbled -- taking meaningful steps to reduce the production of greenhouse ... Read More

The delicate balance between keeping our borders secure from terrorists and stifling free trade has spurred the U.S., Canada and Mexico to enter into joint agreements allowing registered "low-risk" individuals ... Read More

Never got your 2006 federal income tax refund? You may be one of the 115,478 taxpayers who are due about $110 million worth of refund checks returned to the Internal ... Read More

The U.S. Senate sundry shops, long known as a source for discount cigarettes, will stop selling all tobacco products on Jan. 1, 2008. Senate Rules Chairman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), and ... Read More

In testimony before the House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, TSA administrator Kip Hawley defended his agency's airport security screening methods in light of the report that GAO investigators ... Read More

Undercover federal investigators succeeded in passing through TSA airport security screening checkpoints with components for "several" improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and one improvised incendiary device (IID) hidden in their carry-on ... Read More

President Bush today announced measures intended to offer relief to airline passengers suffering from increasingly frequent flight delays. With Thanksgiving and the busiest air travel days of the year coming next ... Read More

The war on terror-torn country of Afghanistan, best known for its production of illegal drugs, is in fact a rich source of valuable undiscovered non-fuel minerals, according to the U.S. ... Read More

If you fail to get a flu shot this year, you won't be able to use, "They ran out," as an excuse. In fact, flu vaccine is more available than ... Read More

After a year spiked with incidents of contaminated food and dangerous Chinese-made toys entering the U.S. marketplace, the Bush administration's Interagency Working Group on Import Safety has published its Import Safety Action Plan ... Read More

What better tribute could Minnesota's Agri-Growth Council pay to the state's first lady Mary Pawlenty than to carve her head in butter?

"FEMA employees enter travel trailers EVERY SINGLE DAY," responds FEMA, to claims made by CBS News that the agency had prohibited its employees from entering travel trailers lived in by ... Read More

Michael B. Mukasey of New York has been sworn in as U.S. Attorney General. Mukasey won confirmation by the Senate in a 53-40 vote on November 8. Mukasey becomes the nation's ... Read More

As part of its Veterans Pride Initiative, the Veterans Administration (VA) is calling on all 24 million U.S. veterans to wear their military decorations on Veterans Day. "By wearing our decorations, we ... Read More

As of November 5, combined federal assistance to victims of the Southern California wildfires in late October had totaled over $17.4 million. As reported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), ... Read More

In the War on Terror, the U.S. military has spent more than $15 billion in developing ways to detect and defeat Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on the battlefields of Afghanistan ... Read More

Imagine the IRS collecting contributions of money TO taxpayers. Out there, isn't it? But that's the premise of a recent email scam disguised as a solicitation from the IRS on ... Read More

Yes indeed, the federal government needs to take note of this: Texas state government requires too many state government reports, according to -- you guessed it -- a 668-page report ... Read More

The U.S. Air Force has grounded its entire 676-plane fleet of Boeing F-15 fighter jets just days after an older Air National Guard F-15C broke up in flight over Missouri. ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laments the fact that Americans continue to buy potentially risky imported drugs over the Internet. "FDA urges consumers to beware of unregulated Internet drug sellers, ... Read More

At its natural time, that is, as daylight saving time, our government-initiated attempt to mess with the timing of the earth's daily rotation finally ends for a while. Daylight saving time ... Read More

Paul Tibbets, Jr., the Army Air Force pilot who led the atomic bombing mission over Hiroshima, Japan, has died at age 92. On August 6, 1945, Tibbets flying his specially reconfigured ... Read More

The U.S. Marshals Service’s Operation FALCON-2007 crime sweep has resulted in the arrest of 6,406 fugitives in 22 states, according to the Justice Department. During the week-long national fugitive sweep, Marshals ... Read More

U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced on October 29, that the U.S. military has handed off full responsibility for maintaining security in the Karbala Province of Iraq to the Iraqi government. According ... Read More

As expected, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin told the House Committee on Science and Technology that the space agency would disclose results of an unprecedented aviation survey of aircraft near ... Read More