President Donald Trump gleefully announced that, under his direction, U.S. military troops had swooped down on the Governor’s Mansion in Sacramento and kidnapped California Governor Gavin Newsom. “We’re charging Newscum with fraud.” When a reporter asked for specifics about the fraud charges, Trump pointed to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi, clearly taken by surprise, said, “We’re looking into it and will let you know the details as soon as we’ve created them.”   read more

The Small Business Administration (SBA), which has nothing to do with regulating harmful chemicals, has sided with large manufacturers opposing the government’s listing of formaldehyde as a carcinogen.   Within the SBA is the Office of Advocacy,...   read more

When the Obama administration ran interference and helped to get a huge legal case settled against the nation’s largest banks over mortgage fraud and improper foreclosures, more than $2 billion in cash was sent to the states to help struggling hom...   read more

Norman and Oriane Rousseau’s American dream of owning a home turned into a tragic nightmare involving Wells Fargo.   In 2000, the Rousseaus purchased a home in Newbury Park, California, putting down 30%—their life savings. Six years later, they ...   read more

Three decades after the wrongful execution of Carlos DeLuna, the Columbia Human Rights Law Review (HRLR) has devoted its entire spring issue to evidence proving the 26-year-old was not guilty of the crime of which he was accused.   In February 1...   read more

Raymond Gilmartin’s landing was a soft one after leaving behind an embattled Merck. The one-time top executive of the leading pharmaceutical company, which was engulfed in the Vioxx controversy last decade, splits his time these days between teach...   read more

Crime is down in Louisiana, but the state still holds the ignominious title of “the world’s prison capital.”   An exposé by the New Orleans Times-Picayune found that Louisiana incarcerates more people per capita than any other state or country i...   read more

One of the nation’s leading business lawyers has decided to take on the filibuster and get it outlawed.   Emmet Bondurant, selected Lawyer of the Year for Antitrust and Bet-the-Company Litigation in 2010, has proposed that the U.S. Supreme Court...   read more

Two U.S. defense contractors have lost their appeal in federal court and must continue to fight multiple lawsuits accusing their employees of helping torture Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and at other locations during the war.   The two companies,...   read more

Taking news sources at their word resulted in a highly controversial, but false, story being spread all over the Internet three weeks ago about Egyptian lawmakers legalizing necrophilia.   The rumor apparently began with columnist Amr Abdel Sami...   read more

The self-styled “Masters of the Universe” have done it again. Just three-and-a-half years after Wall Street’s best and brightest lost billions of dollars on bad bets and crashed the global economy, mega-bank JPMorgan Chase lost more than $2 billio...   read more

Even with First Lady Michelle Obama pushing hard for healthier food choices for children, Washington has failed in key battles against the processed food industry, according to a special report from Reuters.   The news wire service reviewed fede...   read more

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been told by Congress to do more with less, taking on the responsibility of regulating the multi-trillion-dollar swaps market while having its funding frozen at an inadequate level, according to ...   read more

Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona considers the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) funding of political science research “meritless” and wants Congress to eliminate all funding for such work.   By a vote of 218-208, the House of Representatives ...   read more

Teenaged drivers + teenaged passengers = deadly combination.   That’s the conclusion of a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety after studying recent data on automobile crashes.   In cases where a teen driver was accompanied by so...   read more

In a “watershed moment” for the U.S. banking industry, the Federal Reserve has approved the first takeover of an American financial institution by the Chinese government.   Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC), which is owned by the...   read more

Fed up with the Obama administration’s interference with medical marijuana operations across the country, a bipartisan coalition of congressmen has introduced an amendment to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from conducting more raids on dispen...   read more