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

Rocked by the forced resignations of its past two administrators, the General Services Administration (GSA), which serves as the federal government’s lead acquisition agency, has a new administrator in Daniel M. Tangherlini, who is promising to ri...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service who has served before in Nepal and in neighboring India has been nominated by President Obama to be the next ambassador to Nepal. Peter W. Bodde was nominated on March 2, 2012, and is expected to be co...   read more

For those paying income taxes later this month and wondering just what their money goes toward, here is a breakdown of how the U.S. government spends it.   One quarter of all income taxes are consumed by national defense, which represents the la...   read more

The Obama administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has swept up significantly more adults whose children were born in the U.S., potentially breaking up thousands of families.   In just one six-month span last year (January to June), Imm...   read more

New Orleans police officers convicted of shooting multiple people on the Danziger Bridge during the post-Katrina chaos face spending the rest of their lives in prison.   Federal Judge Kurt Engelhardt handed down stiff sentences on five former po...   read more

Less than five months after campus police at the University of California, Davis pepper-sprayed non-violent protesting students, controversy over the use of pepper spray by campus police has erupted again in California.   At least one officer at...   read more

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week forced the closure of two non-governmental organizations that promote democracy, mirroring the actions last year of the military-led government in Egypt against the same NGOs.   The first NGO shut down wa...   read more

Between industry and the military, more than 200 million pounds of toxic pollutants are dumped each year into American waterways, but one corporation takes two of the top three spots of biggest polluters.   According to the Environment America R...   read more

Florida state law has trumped common sense as the Republican Party prepares for its national convention in Tampa later this year.   In developing security measures for the August 27-30 event, city officials have prohibited protesters from carryi...   read more

Republican Terence F. Flynn has been on the job at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for only three months, and already President Barack Obama may be regretting his decision to appoint the Republican advisor.   Selected in January to ser...   read more

The state of Arkansas cannot criminalize sex between consenting adults, even if one is a teacher and another an 18-year-old student, ruled the state’s Supreme Court last week.   The case evolved from the conviction of David Paschal, 38, a histor...   read more

Sixteen years have passed since the end of the Bosnian War, yet the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to discriminate against ethnic minorities.   According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jews, Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies) and other national min...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 this week that anyone being held in jail can be subject to strip searches, no matter how minor the offense or who the arrestee is. That applies to even someone like Sister Bernie Galvin, a Catholic nun and resident...   read more

Unlike President Barack Obama, who has refused to prosecute American intelligence agents involved in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, leaders in Poland have charged their former top spymaster for helping the Central Intelligence A...   read more

While homicides overall are declining in the U.S., justifiable homicides are going up.   An analysis of murder statistics by The Wall Street Journal revealed killings done in the name of self-defense doubled last decade, reaching a total of 326....   read more

Borrowing for a college education can be a lifetime commitment.   According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, about $36.5 billion of the nation’s student loan debt is owed by Americans in their sixties or older. This includes more than $4...   read more