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

Nearly a dozen Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employees working at the Lihu‘e Airport on the island of Kauai in Hawaii were overcome on November 3 by unidentified emissions coming from the security checkpoint they were manning.   Sus...   read more

Promises can be hard to keep. Just ask Citigroup and Bank of America.   The two behemoths of banking have repeatedly claimed that they would stop defrauding customers, after having been busted multiple times by the Securities and Exchange Commis...   read more

Nearly all 12 members of the congressional “Supercommittee” charged with cutting more than $1 trillion from the federal budget have accepted donations from foreign lobbyists this year.   The fact that 10 lawmakers have taken contributions recent...   read more

Faulty procurement by the Department of Defense has allowed counterfeit computer chips made in China to wind up in the parts inventory of advanced weapons systems.   The embarrassing revelation was exposed by the U.S. Navy and the Immigration an...   read more

Good news for the U.S. economy has surfaced in the nation’s bankruptcy courts, where filings are down for the first time since 2005.   Individuals and businesses collectively filed 1,467,221 bankruptcy cases in fiscal year 2011, down 8% from 201...   read more

In a surprising about-face, the Department of Defense has decided for the first time to broadcast the military trial of a Guantánamo detainee.   The decision comes after years of secrecy that has surrounded the holding of accused terrorists, inc...   read more

A majority of jobless Americans are no longer receiving unemployment benefits because they’ve been out of work too long to qualify.   The percentage of unemployed still getting checks from the government is now down to 48%—a significant drop fro...   read more

Commando teams have become popular not only within the U.S. military, but also with the federal government’s top law enforcement agency for combating drug trafficking.   The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) now has five Special Forces-like ...   read more

Nearly $90 billion in contracts were awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy over a two-year period without officials bothering to review the performance of the companies that were hired.   Included in this spending were federal stimulus monies...   read more

Tennessee has become the first state in the nation to welcome the federal government’s latest anti-terrorist program: Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR).   The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created VIPR in December 20...   read more

After pleading 10 years for a chance to clear his name, Hank Skinner received a ray of hope only two days before his execution date in Texas.   The convicted triple murderer has insisted since his trial in 1995 that he did not kill his girlfrien...   read more

Pro and con sides of the abortion debate will be watching Mississippi closely on Tuesday to see if a controversial and far-reaching initiative will be adopted by voters.   The constitutional amendment would make Mississippi the first state to de...   read more

Big-money investors have found a hot new business to get behind: so-called “Buy Here Pay Here” used-car dealerships.   Such dealerships feed off desperate consumers who can’t get financing for cars, selling them older, high-mileage vehicles at i...   read more

General Electric’s business dealings with China have drawn criticism from a Republican lawmaker concerned that the company may wind up helping the Asian giant develop advanced military aircraft similar to U.S. warplanes.   Representative Randy F...   read more

To the chagrin of American diplomats and military commanders, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has expanded its targeting criteria for drone attacks in Pakistan to include anyone who might be associated with al-Qaeda or other terrorist organi...   read more

While soldiers rely on diet and exercise to stay fit for service, their wives have been receiving weight-loss surgeries, compliments of the Department of Defense.   Using the Freedom of Information Act, local news station KIRO 7 in Seattle disco...   read more