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 some in Washington, going home for the holidays will mean not returning to the nation’s capital in January.   Alan Bersin is one such person. The head of Customs and Border Protection will leave his post at the end of this month because Sena...   read more

Once commonly performed by hospitals, autopsies are rarely conducted these days, depriving doctors and the medical profession of vital information. Fifty years ago, about half of patients who died in hospitals received autopsies. Now that number h...   read more

The Wal-Mart in Dunwoody, Georgia, is being sued by the mother of a shoplifter who was killed by employees two years ago. On December 19, 2009, 38-year-old Marty Jerome Bridges put about $300 worth of sporting goods inside his clothing and was hea...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA), which provides services to farm operations such as loans, commodity price supports, conservation payments, and disaster assistance, is led by a third generation Montana farmer. Bruce Ne...   read more

While she was on a ten-day vacation in China, the staff of a St. Louis-based judge handled hundreds of cases for her, including denying bail and issuing arrest warrants.   Associate Circuit Judge Barbara T. Peebles is now in trouble with her jud...   read more

Tired of being beaten up in the press and the focus of public protests, some of America’s richest individuals are banding together to shape the national discourse on the top 1%, or, as comedian John Hodgman refers to them, “moneyed Americans.”   ...   read more

Bank of America, owner of Countrywide Financial Corporation, has agreed to pay $335 million to settle discrimination complaints filed against its subsidiary.   Crafted by the U.S. Department of Justice, the settlement resolves allegations that C...   read more

Due to the bad economic times that have plagued the country for the past several years, the U.S. is experiencing its slowest rate of population growth since World War II.   The population went up by about 2.8 million to 311.6 million from April ...   read more

U.S. auto maker executives and their political allies have clamored for industry workers to accept wage cuts so American cars can become more competitive with foreign models.   But numbers out of Germany demonstrate that higher wages for auto wo...   read more

Naoto Matsumura has gained national media attention in Japan for being the only person still living within the contaminated area near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, which covers 12 miles in any direction. Residing about seven and a ha...   read more

U.S. and Chinese airlines are determined to fight off Europe’s attempts to force their joining in the fight against global warming.   On January 1, the European Union plans to begin charging airline companies for their greenhouse gas emissions. ...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration has approved clinical trials for a new HIV vaccine manufactured in Canada.   With the financial backing of the South Korean pharmaceutical venture company Sumagen, scientists at the University of Western Ontario,...   read more

With the end of the world slated for December 21, 2012, Mayans in southeastern Mexico are hoping to draw scores of tourists next year. More than 50 million people are expected in 2012 to visit the regions of Chiapas, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tabasco...   read more

Boston College may have to violate its promise of confidentiality given to members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who participated in an oral history project.   The school’s Belfast Project recorded about 25 interviews with IRA paramilitarie...   read more

Bart S. Fisher, a veteran international trade lawyer, is not a popular guy these days in Washington after agreeing to work for Sudan’s government and lobby the Obama administration.   Human rights groups and Republican lawmaker Frank Wolf of Vir...   read more

America’s streets are now home to more than 1.5 million youths, with more than 40% of them under the age of seven.   Out of the 1.6 million children in the U.S. who were homeless at some time last year, 672,000 were babies, toddlers and other ki...   read more