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

For the first time in nine months, the South American nation of Ecuador has an ambassador at its Washington, DC, embassy. On January 18, 2012, Nathalie Cely Suárez replaced Luis Gallegos, whom the U.S. expelled in April 2011 as retaliation for Ecu...   read more

From the Northeast to the Midwest to the Deep South, five states still have not elected a woman to Congress: Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, Vermont and North Dakota. In 1992, Jocelyn Birch Burdick of North Dakota was appointed to serve a three-month...   read more

The same week Citibank settled one lawsuit alleging fraudulent business practices, the bank was hit with another civil case, this one involving the luring of consumers to open accounts through frequent flyer miles promises.   A federal class act...   read more

Having decided enough’s enough with all the manmade space debris floating around the earth, Switzerland plans to develop a special satellite that will clean up Swiss space junk.   Dubbed CleanSpace One, the project will employ a new kind of “jan...   read more

President Barack Obama has welcomed a new ambassador from Morocco, which was the first nation to recognize the newly-independent United States in 1777. Mohamed Rachad Bouhlal was appointed ambassador by King Mohammed VI on December 6, 2011, and pr...   read more

The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, located in the Caucasus Mountains west of the Caspian Sea, south of Russia and north of Iran, has sent a new ambassador to the U.S. Elin Suleymanov is quite familiar with the U.S., having lived here ten ye...   read more

A court in Italy garnered worldwide attention this week when it convicted two wealthy foreign executives of involuntary manslaughter for exposing thousands of people to asbestos.   The defendants, billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny of Switzerland, ...   read more

Half a dozen lobbyists are suing the Obama administration claiming they are being denied their free speech rights by not serving on federal advisory committees.   The six lobbyists were either serving on or were seeking to be on the Industry Tra...   read more

A federal prosecutor’s decision to drop the investigation of cyclist Lance Armstrong has raised more questions than answers, especially given the timing of the decision.   U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. announced that the 20-month probe was ove...   read more

As part of doing business with the federal government, large U.S. corporations receive annual multi-million-dollar contributions to their private pension funds.   About $3.3 billion in taxpayer funds were paid in 2010 by federal agencies to the ...   read more

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has published new guidelines that will result in more companies qualifying as small businesses, allowing them to enjoy certain contracting advantages.   After conducting its first comprehensive review of s...   read more

The nation’s largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state governments to buy up their penitentiaries and manage convicted criminals at a cost-savings. But there’s a catch…the states must guarantee that are there are enough prison...   read more

Following on the Solyndra controversy, the Department of Energy under President Barack Obama is now accused of funneling billions of dollars in funding to companies that have connections within the department.   An investigation by The Washingto...   read more

The cost of owning a printer for a home computer rests as much in the amount spent on ink cartridges as it does on the purchase price of the printer itself. The same can be said of billion-dollar weapons systems purchased by the Department of Defe...   read more

Four hundred types of lipstick contain trace amounts of lead, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which found some products tested for levels that exceeded safety recommendations. The FDA has not set legal limits for lead in cosme...   read more

Screenings agents at Dallas/Fort Worth airport are being accused of making attractive women go through full-body scanners, according to numerous complaints.   A local CBS affiliate went through more than 500 records of complaints lodged against ...   read more