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

Exposed for having sterilized thousands of welfare recipients without their consent, the state of North Carolina is considering compensation for its victims.   The sterilizations occurred as part of a 20th century eugenics program that lasted fr...   read more

Having become the butt of jokes across the Internet, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) decided to address the issue of “cupcakegate” on its blog.   Last month, passenger Rebecca Hains, a professor at Salem State University in Mass...   read more

When a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel of experts voted 15-11 last month to allow the continued marketing of potentially harmful birth-control pills by Bayer, it did not reveal that several members were financially tied to the drug manufa...   read more

Where once there were 17 major investment banks on Wall Street, there now are only five.   During the financial crisis, stalwarts such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Merrill Lynch crumbled, leaving behind Goldman Sachs, Morga...   read more

Photographer Laura Leigh has taken her legal battle to gain access to wild horse roundups by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Leigh is a credentialed member of the media representing Horse Back Magazine. ...   read more

Rather than symbolize economic growth, the rise of skyscrapers often portend bad times ahead, says one property analyst. If this correlation is accurate, China and India beware.   A report written by Andrew Lawrence, director of property researc...   read more

Cheryl Jones got more than anticipated when she visited the Disciple Fellowship Christian Church in East St. Louis, Illinois.   During services on January 5, 2010, the church pastor laid hands on a parishioner who was then overcome with “the spi...   read more

In selecting Jacob “Jack” Lew as his new chief of staff, President Barack Obama has turned again to a former member of the Clinton administration to improve his White House operation.   Lew replaces William Daley, who was brought in only a year ...   read more

Using multiple shell companies to hide its identity, the nation’s second largest gas driller conned hundreds of Michigan farmers into signing gas and oil leases and then avoided paying them any royalties.   Chesapeake Energy Corp. pulled off its...   read more

As far as some companies in Sweden are concerned, America is the land of corporate opportunity—and worker exploitation. So why not take advantage of a business culture that seeks every chance to increase profits at the expense of U.S. employees. ...   read more

Taxpayers are increasingly covering the cost of training for a corporation’s workforce, without getting any long-term benefit in return.   For instance, North Carolina has spent a million dollars for 400 residents to learn skills for working in ...   read more

Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) have sued the U.S. government to force the release of the only known surviving videotape documenting the use of torture against terrorism suspects.   CCR seeks the recording of detainee Moh...   read more

A legal expert has questioned the conventional wisdom that the U.S. Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has been a strong proponent of free speech.   Monica Youn, a lawyer with the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York Unive...   read more

Having made hundreds of millions of dollars off the regime, defense contractor Lockheed has publicly defended the dictatorship in Bahrain by using a former high-ranking military commander now on the company’s payroll. In the past year, King Hamad ...   read more

A conservative parents’ organization and the Obama administration find themselves on the same side in a court case brought by the major television networks.   Fox and other networks have sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to challe...   read more

Allegedly upset by allegations of abused Afghans at the prison, President Hamid Karzai has demanded that the U.S. turn over control of its most important detention facility in Afghanistan, adding that any prisoners held without supporting evidence...   read more