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 Obama administration is getting tough with employers who violate work-safety rules, imposing penalties never used until now.   For only the second time in the history of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, OSHA officials have ...   read more

The last U.S. Marine facing charges stemming from the November 19, 2005, Haditha massacre will lose some stripes, but not serve any time in jail after pleading guilty.   Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich entered a guilty plea on one count of derelic...   read more

Local, state and federal officials are investigating a century-old meatpacking plant in Texas after a local resident uncovered evidence using his unmanned aircraft. An unidentified man flying a small drone, appropriately called Exposure, captured ...   read more

A BP employee who worked on the Gulf oil spill cleanup is suing the company, claiming he was fired for refusing to alter data so BP could claim the cleanup phase was completed.   August Walter worked in BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, ...   read more

Although only five justices signed the majority opinion in United States v. Jones, in reality the entire U.S. Supreme Court agreed that the Obama administration went too far in arguing law enforcement does not need a warrant to continuously track ...   read more

U.S. border patrol agents are using drones, the same type in fact being used to fight the Afghanistan war, to locate illegal shipments of marijuana being smuggled across the Southwest border.   But based on the government’s own statistics, it re...   read more

In what it calls a win-win reform that will save money and improve food safety, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) intends to change the way it inspects poultry processing plants.   Critics of the plan say it amounts to privatizing food i...   read more

As part of his effort to boost the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama has ordered federal agencies to make it easier for tourists from countries with growing national incomes to visit American cities and travel spots.   Under Obama’s plan, the...   read more

In a nation that invented the “super-size me” option, it seems only appropriate that U.S. political campaigns would figure out a way to go mega when it comes to collecting and spending money on elections.   Beyond the political action committee ...   read more

Twenty-one railroad accidents since 2001 could have been prevented with new safety technology that the industry is fighting against adopting. Using GPS, wireless communications and central control centers, Positive Train Control (PTC) automaticall...   read more

Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes.   According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, approximately 4...   read more

Now that advances in medical technology are making it easier today to perform extractions, a nonprofit group is fighting the federal government to win the right to pay donors for bone marrow.   Under a 1984 federal law, it is illegal for anyone ...   read more

In what may be the first of its kind, a congressman who once earmarked money for a local alternative energy project is financially benefitting from the very same project, now that he has left office   William Delahunt (D-Massachusetts) served in...   read more

Gun-rights advocates have lost their legal challenge in federal court to stop the Obama administration from requiring certain gun dealers along the Mexican border to report multiple sales of assault rifles.   Beginning last July, the Bureau of A...   read more

In a controversial decision regarding women’s health care, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has announced a final rule that requires employers that provide insurance coverage to their employees to cover contraceptives at no...   read more

In yet another case of drinking water contamination in areas where energy companies have engaged in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supplying clean water to some re...   read more