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

Thanks to the Federal Reserve’s generous lending during the 2007-2009 financial crisis, banks that were teetering and at risk of collapsing wound up making billions of dollars in profits, according to Bloomberg Markets magazine.   After combing ...   read more

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will be asked for an upcoming case to interpret the geographic descriptions logged by Lewis and Clark in their diaries from the early 19th century.   The matter of what Meriwether Lewis and William Clark saw on...   read more

President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois, has been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) list of areas with too much lead in the air.   Along with Arecibo, Puerto Rico; Belding, Michigan; Saline, Kansas; and Pot...   read more

Led by Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court has been reversing convictions for murder, drug dealing, wife beating and drunken driving on grounds that defendants have been denied their 6th Amendment rights.   The 6th Amendment guarantee...   read more

In the wake of the “Memogate” scandal, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, was forced to resign on November 22, 2011. He was accused of writing a secret memo asking the U.S. military for assistance in changing Pakistan’s po...   read more

The U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general has suggested the cash-strapped agency consider offering email, secure document storage, and other online services as a way to bring in new revenues.   According to the IG, the Postal Service is one of...   read more

If life on Earth has gotten to be a bit too much, the neighborhood near Saturn might be the place to try next.   A group of astrobiologists has calculated which planets and satellites are the next best options for supporting life outside of eart...   read more

Things truly were black on the Friday after Thanksgiving, as consumers shoved, punched and sprayed their way in Wal-Marts across America to get the best bargains.   A Wal-Mart in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles received the most Bla...   read more

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, abruptly quit his post this week amid allegations that he asked Washington for help in reigning in his country’s powerful military.   An American businessman of Pakistani origin, Mansoo...   read more

Giving new meaning to the phrase “streaming video,” Captive Media has produced the first “hands-free urinal videogame,” which is now being unveiled in bars and clubs in the United Kingdom. With foot-long LCD screens mounted above specially-crafted...   read more

On October 17, 2011, President Barack Obama chose a political appointee who strongly supported his 2008 rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to serve as the ambassador to the South American nation o...   read more

In this time of global economic crisis, the impoverished West African nation of Burkina Faso has sent a new ambassador to the United States who has no formal diplomatic experience, but has specialized in development economics since the mid-1980s. ...   read more

Shortly after 10 a.m. this morning at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch an Atlas V rocket on a nine-month journey to Mars. On board will be the $2.5-billion Mars Scien...   read more

Current and former members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) this week commemorated the 10th anniversary of Johnny Micheal Spann’s death in Afghanistan. Spann was the first American casualty of the United States’ war-on-terror campaign that...   read more

Being a cop may seem like dangerous work, but it’s not nearly as fatal as those who catch fish. The profession with the highest rate of fatalities last year was fishermen, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. After that it was loggers; air...   read more

President Barack Obama has turned to an experienced Latin America hand, Adam E. Namm, to serve as the new ambassador to Ecuador, replacing former ambassador Heather Hodges, who in April 2011 was expelled by the Ecuadorian government after the rele...   read more