Always look both ways -- and hang up – before crossing the street! The State of Illinois has become the first state to consider a bill making it a crime ... Read More

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has officially suspended its enforcement of the so-called “Millionaires’ Amendment” to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, after the Supreme Court ruled it an ... Read More

Americans have already redeemed more than 6.6 million coupons for digital TV converter boxes, according to the Department of Commerce. To date consumers have requested over 21.3 million of the ... Read More

What did the fish say when he bumped his nose? "Dam." Okay, it's an old one, but now National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers say it's no joke that all vocal ... Read More

By a vote of 72-13, the U.S. Senate on Saturday completed congressional approval of the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008, a landmark housing bill intended to help Americans facing foreclosure ... Read More

The Social Security Administration has launched an online Social Security Retirement Estimator offering fast and personalized estimates of monthly Social Security retirement benefits, a great aid in planning for retirement. Tied ... Read More

Got fear of flying? Better try to suppress it, at least until you're on the airplane, because the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has started conducting random additional at-gate screening of ... Read More

Despite suffering from medical condition serious enough to qualify them for full federal disability benefits, many active U.S. commercial drivers license (CDL) holders continue to drive trucks, buses and other ... Read More

Not wanting another Katrina formaldehyde-trailer incident, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is jumping right on the discovery of mold in some of the mobile homes supplied as temporary housing ... Read More

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Homeland Security have made only "limited progress" in strengthening safeguards intended to prevent unauthorized persons from purchasing radioactive materials, according to a ... Read More

Now how safe is this nation's food-supply chain? A USDA plant protection and quarantine officer stationed in Laredo, Texas, has admitted to illegally allowing agricultural products infested with a plant ... Read More

After a five-month period without further explosions or lava flows, Mount St. Helens has been declared a temporarily sleeping volcano by scientists at the U.S. Geodetic Survey (USGS). Following its disastrous ... Read More

The tax rebates may or may not have stimulated the economy, but they have definitely stimulated rafts of scammers pretending to be the IRS to launch more innovative identity theft ... Read More

Fannie Mae -- the Federal National Mortgage Association -- and Freddie Mac -- the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, while privately owned by shareholders are congressionally-authorized, "government sponsored enterprises" (GSEs) ... Read More

The number of U.S. residents who ingest fluoride via their community drinking water has now reached 184 million Americans or about 70 percent of the total population, according to the ... Read More

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to conduct research to identify the secrets of living longer and healthier lives. Specifically, NIH scientists hope to discover why extreme old age ... Read More

While it will not go into general circulation, the first U.S. coin featuring readable Braille has been announced by the U.S. Mint. The 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar commemorative ... Read More

In the 10 weeks since the payments began on April 28, the Treasury Department reports sending out over 104.8 million tax rebate checks totaling nearly $86.1 billion. According to the Treasury, ... Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld a 2006 ruling by a federal judge that U.S. paper money must employ features to make the denominations ... Read More

On July 2, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported significant progress in its Food Protection Plan intended to "help keep consumers enjoying one of the safest food supplies in ... Read More

One of the oldest tax dodges around -- the Swiss bank account -- may be in trouble, as a Miami federal judge has issued a court order authorizing the IRS ... Read More

In an ironic twist, scammers promoting bogus and costly sweepstakes scams are posing as officials of the Federal Trade Commission -- the very federal agency that is chasing them down. Claiming ... Read More

With the price of their main product reaching all-time highs, the number of U.S. gas stations reached 116,855, or about one station for every 2,500 Americans, according to the U.S. ... Read More

A request by the State of Nevada to reject a U.S. Departement of Energy application to build and operate a railroad for the delivery of radioactive nuclear waste to the ... Read More

Dismissing the fact that politics is not even mentioned in the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, ruled it unconstitutional for Congress to pass laws intended to ensure ... Read More