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

Officials in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have been touting their agency’s timely delivery of mental health services to veterans. It turns out those claims were greatly exaggerated.   According to the VHA, 95% of first-time mental-he...   read more

In an era when 97% of climate scientists believe that climate change is a serious problem, increasingly isolated scientific skeptics have turned to the skies to explain why the threat of global warming is much ado about nothing.   Richard S. Lin...   read more

Bad air may contribute to cases of obesity for some inner-city residents of New York City.   Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health studied more than 700 pregnant women and found those exposed to higher concentratio...   read more

The Obama administration has crafted a master plan for biotechnology that emphasizes economic opportunities while ignoring sufficient regulation of the industry.   The National Bioeconomy Blueprint, released by the White House, is part of the Ob...   read more

A little-known office within the U.S. Department of Agriculture has come under scrutiny for killing thousands of animals in the name of helping ranchers and the environment.   Over the past dozen years, Wildlife Services, which has an annual bud...   read more

Wal-Mart, exposed for bribing officials in Mexico, is by no means the only major American corporation to get busted recently for payoffs. In fact, the retail giant has plenty of company when it comes to breaking the law and supporting efforts to c...   read more

A pesticide used on farms and golf courses has been linked to brain abnormalities in babies, according to a group of researchers.   The chemical chlorpyrifos, found in Dow Chemical’s pesticide Dursban, can impact the development of the cortex, w...   read more

Things were looking up for seniors until the last decade. During the 1980s and 1990s, poverty declined among older Americans. But this trend began to reverse, especially after 2005, with poverty levels increasing for both seniors and younger citiz...   read more

More Americans had biracial children last decade compared to the previous 10-year period, according to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau.   Of the 3.5 million children born in 2009, about 7% were of two or more races. At the end of t...   read more

Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has praised its agents numerous times for thwarting terrorist plots. Some of these conspiracies, however, have been aided, if not encouraged, by FBI agents ...   read more

When the George W. Bush administration bailed out Wall Street four years ago, it created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and a special inspector general (SIGTARP) to advise the Department of the Treasury on the rescue. It turns out, thoug...   read more

Labor leaders and some Democrats are unhappy with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its glacial pace of implementing new standards for protecting workers.   A 30-year review of OSHA safety rules revealed the agency put...   read more

After a year of analysis, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the Department of Defense is still nowhere near developing a reliable defense against ballistic missiles.   About $80 billion was spent over the past 10 years bu...   read more

Some law enforcement departments in Maryland may not obey an appellate court ruling that forbids police from taking DNA samples from criminal suspects without a warrant.   Since 2009, police have routinely collected DNA samples when arresting su...   read more

Fourteen-year-old best friends Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall of Sterling, Illinois, looking forward to starting high school, were just trying to earn some money by working for Monsanto during the summer of 2011, when they were electrocuted in a fa...   read more

Just as American drug users get most of their product ultimately from Mexico, Mexican drug cartels get most of the weapons they use from the United States. The drug war in Mexico, which has killed about 50,000 people since 2006, depends not only o...   read more