Four years after required to do so by Congress and forced to act by a court order, the Bush Administration last week made public its scientific assessment of the effects ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Commerce late last week publicly scolded Iceland for its recent resumption of commercial hunting for minke whales in defiance of a current global ban on commercial ... Read More

Just in time for one of the most fascinating presidential elections in years, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has enhanced its always fascinating 2008 Presidential Campaign Finance map of the ... Read More

Okay, lots of us are mad at the IRS over the 2008 tax rebates. Many of our rebates have been late in arriving, or haven't even come yet. Lots of ... Read More

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has released firearms trace data for 2007, covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. ... Read More

The USDA has announced that it will propose a new federal regulation prohibiting the slaughter of "downed" or non-ambulatory beef cattle for use in the U.S. food supply. Under current regulations, ... Read More

Which federal agency do most people associate with Hurricane Katrina? You got it, FEMA. However, in the almost two and one-half years since the disaster, the U.S. Department of Justice ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced steps to solve the delay faced by airline passengers who are prevented from checking in for flights remotely because their names ... Read More

If you own an analog TV -- generally, a TV without a digital tuner that is not connected to cable, satellite or other pay TV service -- it will stop ... Read More

In its effort to keep tax rebate money out of the hands of illegal aliens, Congress ended up denying the rebates to hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, U.S. military ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Interior has agreed with a recommendation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), ... Read More

Newsday Issues Correction: Newsday has issued a correction to its story regarding mistakes made by the IRS in distribution of the economic stimulus rebates. In correcting its article, Newsday stated ... Read More

Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known surviving American veteran out of the more than 2,000,000 U.S. troops who fought in World War I will be an honored guest at the ... Read More

With gun control looming as a potential critical issue in the 2008 election cycle, pressure is building on Congress to pass legislation reenacting the federal assault weapons ban. The original ... Read More

How would a landing gear tire from a space shuttle look on display in your school's library? Pretty sharp, right? It could happen, thanks to NASA's new artifact loan program. A ... Read More

The SBA's Patriot Express small business loan program offers small business loans of up to $500,000 to members of the U.S. military community. In the program's first ten months alone, ... Read More

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns you to be on the lookout for a new spam email related to the economic stimulus tax rebates that is, in fact, intended ... Read More

The Federal Reserve has announced proposed federal regulations to prevent credit card practices employed by banks it has called "unfair and deceptive" to consumers. The proposed regulations (.pdf), which have also ... Read More

The IRS today issued a clarification stating that its tax rebate delivery schedule applied only to people who filed a 2007 tax return "early enough" to have their returns processed ... Read More

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts, 4th) has introduced a pair of bills removing federal penalties for the possession of marijuana for personal use and for medicinal purposes. Possession for Personal Use: ... Read More

When NASA sends the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to the moon late this year, your name can go with it, thanks to the efforts of the Goddard Space Flight Center ... Read More

The total Hispanic population of the U.S. hit 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the total population of 301.6 million, according to data just published by ... Read More

UPDATE: On May 15, at least two national news sources reported that the IRS had admitted to tax rebate processing errors resulting in tax rebates being sent to the wrong ... Read More

Americans are getting ready for the May 12 postage increase by purchasing the Forever Stamp in ever-increasing record numbers. As the latest, but certainly not the last postage increase approaches, ... Read More

Collectors of classic cars and classic U.S. stamps are likely to love the "50s Fins and Chrome" set of commemorative stamps showcased by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) earlier this ... Read More