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

Once the standard by which new governments modeled their own public contract with citizens, the U.S. Constitution is losing its appeals with other countries, particularly regarding human rights.   Three decades ago, it was estimated that 160 nat...   read more

Maligned by American citizens and politicians, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is still the best of its kind in the Western world.   A review of postal service providers by Oxford Strategy Consulting resulted in the USPS getting the top ranking a...   read more

About 40% of the campaign ads related to the 2012 election so far have been funded by secret donors whose identity may never be known.   By declaring themselves to be “social welfare” groups concerned with policies rather than politics, these gr...   read more

The city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg, has suffered through a series of violent incidents perpetrated by soldiers who have returned home from war.   Many of the 14,000 soldiers stationed at the base suffer ...   read more

Former Liberian warlord George E.S. Boley is being kicked out of the United States after an immigration judge ruled the Clarkson, New York, resident should be deported for violating a federal law banning the use of child soldiers.   The decision...   read more

An effort by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create more transparency for political advertisements is being opposed by television and radio networks.   Under current law, broadcasters must maintain a “public inspection file” that ...   read more

After his second deployment to Afghanistan, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis came to the conclusion that things were not going well for the U.S. and that the Obama administration had misled the public on the war’s progress.   Instead of...   read more

Organizations representing commercial pilots have expressed serious concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) decision allowing drones to operate in the same airspace as airliners.   The FAA is preparing regulations to permit bu...   read more

Egypt’s military-controlled government is quickly losing support in Washington after it announced that 19 Americans working for pro-democracy groups would stand trial on licensing and financial charges.   The Americans are among 43 people, inclu...   read more

 It may not be long before human control, and accountability, of warfare and its destructive outcomes are entirely ambiguous.   Military planners are already testing the newest model in unmanned aircrafts, the X-47B. Unlike other drones that req...   read more

The business practices of America’s banks and other mortgage holders are under fresh legal attack, as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a suit against Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase in New York State Supreme Co...   read more

The Sierra Club—at 120 years old one of the oldest and most trusted environmental groups in the U.S.—has admitted that from 2007 to 2010 it accepted donations totaling $25 million from the natural gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of...   read more

For the first time ever, the United States has indicted a Switzerland bank, its oldest in fact, on charges of conspiring to help Americans hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).   The action is part of an IRS plan t...   read more

A Republican running for an open seat in the California Assembly has received unusually large donations from defense contractors, possibly because of her congressman-husband who holds a powerful position in Washington.   Outraged by Los Angeles ...   read more

Claudio Bisogniero, who has been posted to the U.S. on two previous occasions, officially took the reins as Italy’s ambassador to the U.S. on February 6, just in time to coordinate the visit to Washington of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who...   read more

Score one for the hackers in the ongoing war between them and government and corporate officials. The online group “Anonymous,” which engages in collaborative, international hacktivism, often to retaliate against anti-digital sharing campaigns by ...   read more