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

The nomination of President Obama’s choice to be next ambassador to Nicaragua is in doubt over criticism leveled by two Cuban-American Senators, Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Mario Rubio (R-Florida), regarding Cuba policy. Jonathan D. Farrar, ...   read more

The ambassador of Georgia to the United States since November 2010, Temuri Yakobashvili, is a long-time senior government official who comes from a Jewish family. Unusually for a diplomat, in his youth Yakobashvili was arrested several times for...   read more

Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who aided the U.S. effort to locate Osama bin Laden, faces the possibility of being tried for treason by Pakistan’s government.   A special panel charged with investigating the U.S. raid in May that kill...   read more

The civil case against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for destroying 92 videotapes containing footage of detainees being interrogated and tortured has run its course, with a federal judge refusing to punish the spy agency for its “transgr...   read more

State Representative Ritch Workman of Florida (R-Melbourne) is looking out for the little people, he says, by seeking to overturn a law that bans dwarf tossing in bars.   The chucking of dwarfs was big in Florida in the 1980s, after carnival w...   read more

The United States in August 2011 sent experienced senior diplomat Anne W. Patterson to be the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt as its revolution continues to develop and, potentially, affect American interests. Born on October 4, 1949, in Fort Smith, Ar...   read more

In June 2011, President Barack Obama nominated diplomat Thomas C. Krajeski to be the U.S. ambassador to Bahrain. Krajeski has spent much of his career serving in the Middle East and Persian Gulf regions, including two stints in Iraq. He received...   read more

Nothing officially exists to legally justify its purpose or to record its decisions, but a secretive panel in the Obama White House does operate—and with the authority to recommend the assassination of Americans who side with terrorist organizat...   read more

Thirteen banks and mortgage companies are being sued for allegedly perpetrating a “massive fraud” on veterans by charging them hidden fees forbidden under federal law.   Two mortgage brokers brought the lawsuit after they were told by banks no...   read more

The political decision to crack down on illegal immigration in Georgia may end up costing the state’s agricultural sector nearly $400 million, due to a lack of farmworkers.   Farmers complained after the Republican-controlled legislature passe...   read more

North Carolina’s school system has had a habit of punishing black students more often than white students who commit the same offenses.   A study released by the National Education Policy Center, a non-partisan source of peer-reviewed research...   read more

3M Co., which has made a fortune selling Post-It’s, is now suing the maker of a humorous line of sticky notes for trademark infringement. 3M insists it owns the rights to using “-Its” in products and that competing products will only confuse cus...   read more

Once the layoffs started and the economy shrunk during the Great Recession, Americans turned to relatives for shelter, causing a significant increase in the number of multi-generational households. The share of Americans living in such household...   read more

For the second year in a row, the Obama administration has decided to override U.S. law and allow military assistance to foreign governments that use child soldiers.   The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 prohibits the U.S. government fro...   read more

The Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) is facing two lawsuits, one state and one federal, for allegedly cheating pensioners out of foreign exchange fees over a 10-year period.   The state attorney general of New York, Eric Schneiderman, is accusin...   read more

The Obama administration is having a difficult time making up its mind over whether to green-light the first-ever study of marijuana and its medicinal impact on veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).   In April, the Foo...   read more