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 United States has quietly stepped up its secret war in Yemen, launching dozens of airstrikes, including drones, according to a report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. U.S. drone attacks in Yemen are now as common as those in Pakistan...   read more

As of April 1, the mangalitsa will be a wanted pig in Michigan. And that has some farmers very upset.   A new regulation developed by the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will prohibit the fur-covered pigs. State officials claim the...   read more

After years of significant budget cuts and rising demand for classes, one community college in California plans to become the first of its kind to offer a two-tier pricing system for popular courses.   Santa Monica College intends this summer to...   read more

The Balkan nation of Croatia, known to most Americans as the homeland of NBA stars like Toni Kukoč and Dražen Petrović, will soon have a new ambassador from the U.S. President Barack Obama nominated career diplomat and current ambassador to Haiti ...   read more

Estonia, a former Soviet republic and now a staunch U.S. ally, will soon get a new ambassador from the U.S. who is a specialist on post-Soviet countries. President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate diplomat Jeffrey D. Levine to be next...   read more

Contending with insurgents in foreign countries may prove to be a more manageable task for the Department of Defense than balancing its books.   Since 2003, the Pentagon has spent more than $2.6 billion on a new accounting system for the armed s...   read more

As far as U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez is concerned, despite the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, corporations don’t enjoy the same rights as individuals when it comes to submitting ballot propositions.   In a ruling out of San Diego...   read more

The federal government’s effort to crackdown on tax evaders using overseas banks has become hampered by the sudden loss of almost one-third of its tax prosecutors can civil litigators.   Within the Department of Justice, 25 of the 95 attorneys i...   read more

Reactors inside Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant are still too hot for man and machine to get close enough to assess the damage from last year’s disaster.   Radiation levels inside reactor No. 2’s containment vessel are so high—(73 sieverts ...   read more

          Born under a bad sign,           I’ve been down since I began to crawl;           If it wasn’t for bad luck,           I wouldn’t have no luck at all.                     —“Born Under A Bad Sign” by Booker T. Jones and William Bell ...   read more

The U.S. intelligence community might have known ahead of time about al-Qaeda’s plan to attack the United States on September 11, 2001, had it managed to follow through in the 1990s on plans to eavesdrop on Afghanistan’s proposed new phone system....   read more

Pipelines carrying natural gas from hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) operations are currently unregulated by the federal government, leaving a large gap in the reporting of leaks, corrosion and potential health hazards.   A new report from the...   read more

Having become the first state to sell off the naming rights of its rest stops, Virginia is going one step further by naming roads and bridges after anyone ponying up the necessary cash.   State officials are still deciding how much it will cost ...   read more

When is big really small? When the federal government says so.   The Small Business Administration (SBA), responsible for helping “small” businesses, allows many types of companies to qualify even though they wouldn’t seem to most Americans to b...   read more

A group of university historians has faulted the National Park Service (NPS) for doing an inconsistent job of properly sharing the history of national treasures with visitors.   In the study Imperiled Promise, which was commissioned by NPS, four...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a human resources problem, both in terms of leadership and espirit de corps.   Things are so bad at DHS that a congressional hearing was held to discuss the matter. But when the House Subcommittee on...   read more