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

Jacinth Lorna Henry-Martin has served as ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis since February 2011. St. Kitts and Nevis is the smallest independent nation in the Americas in both area and populatio...   read more

How much did the Federal Reserve really spend to bail out Wall Street? The estimates vary widely, although all of them fall into the trillions.   Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke claims the total was $1.2 trillion. Bloomberg says it was $7.77 trillio...   read more

Over the past six years of war, the expense of delivering fuel to America’s fighting machine in remote parts of Afghanistan has increased 50-fold.   It now costs on average of $400 a gallon to keep planes, tanks and other fuel-dependent machin...   read more

The federal government is not getting the disclosure it had hoped for clinical trials when it mandated four years ago that researchers register studies of prescription drugs and report results on ClinicalTrials.gov.   Of the studies submitted ...   read more

Since August 2011, the Acting Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been David R. Shipman, who has more than thirty-five years’ experience in agricultural administration.   Born circ...   read more

Reverend Abednego Mandla Ntshangase has served as the ambassador to the United States from the Kingdom of Swaziland since May 1, 2010. Impoverished and landlocked, Swaziland is the only African country still ruled by a royal family. It is border...   read more

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) made it perfectly clear in its 972-page report on the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine that owner Massey Energy was to blame for the “preventable” disaster.   Twenty-nine miners died in the explosion...   read more

The partial remains of more than 270 American soldiers were twice-burned before they were discarded into a landfill, according to the latest development in the U.S. Air Force controversy.   Air Force leaders admitted this week that the number ...   read more

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has raised the issue of changing “stupid” child labor laws in the U.S. because, he says, those from poor families don’t understand the value of work. While Gingrich, his supporters and detractors d...   read more

It took a feat of spectacular incompetence on the part of both prosecutors and defense attorneys, but a court in Houston, Texas, managed to convict a man for armed robbery even though he was in jail at the time of the crime.   During his trial...   read more

On October 17, 2011, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint as ambassador to the small West African nation of Togo a veteran diplomat who has spent years focusing on Africa–US relations.   Born circa 1954 in Indiana, Robert E. Wh...   read more

The Obama administration created an uproar in women’s health circles on Wednesday when Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius overruled the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to allow the Plan B emergency contracept...   read more

Japan’s government is being criticized for spending some of its earthquake disaster relief funds on its whaling fleet, which has struggled to meet its quotas due to harassment from conservationists.   The Fisheries Agency plans to spend an ext...   read more

Halliburton has been accused of destroying evidence that might have indicated it was partly responsible for the fatal oil well blowout that occurred on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico.   The accusation was leveled by BP, which together w...   read more

Firefighters in South Fulton, Tennessee, have done it again—allowing a home to burn to the ground because the owners didn’t pay for the local fire protection fee.   Resident Vicky Bell called 911 on Monday after her mobile home caught fire. Fi...   read more

Scientists for decades have been freezing thousands of endangered species samples in the hopes of preventing extinction for many plants and animals.   The San Diego Zoo has used cryogenics since 1972 to preserve skin cells from rare and endang...   read more