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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to cut a group of Idaho farmers any slack in their fight against the federal government for contaminating their crops with a powerful herbicide.   The issue dates back to 1999-2000, when the Bureau of...   read more

Clothing brand Lacoste has one devoted customer it wished it didn’t: mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.   The man behind the July 22 massacre in Norway that killed 77 people says his favorite line of clothing is Lacoste, which offers the id...   read more

America’s national parks can be great learning tools, providing information to people of all ages about natural and man-made history. But when it comes to educating visitors about Native Americans, the parks still have a long ways to go.   At ...   read more

In the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many people I spoke with simply could not understand why anyone, anywhere, would not like Americans, even if it was just a few dozen fanatics. In one form or another, they asked: W...   read more

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has spent tens of millions of dollars paying beneficiaries after they’ve died, some for as long as decades.   An audit by the agency’s inspector general found that since 2008 $40.3 million was paid to m...   read more

Methyl bromide, a hazardous pesticide that most farmers were supposed to stop using six years ago, is still being sprayed in large quantities in parts of California.   An international agreement called for the phaseout of methyl bromide by 200...   read more

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona has been accused of trying to cover up a link between the murder of a Customs and Border Protection agent and a controversial anti-drug program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of cartels.   Shortl...   read more

Senate Republicans want to strip President Barack Obama and all future presidents of the ability to decide whether terrorism suspects should be handed over to civilian law enforcement or the military, preferring instead that detainees automatica...   read more

When the U.S. government wasted somewhere between $30 billion and $60 billion on contracts for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it did so in a variety of ways.   For example, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in 2005 hired Supreme Foodservice of ...   read more

Civil libertarians won an important victory in federal court on Tuesday involving the government’s use of cell phone data to track suspects without a warrant.   Since the September 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence and federal law enforcement agen...   read more

The “don’t ask, don’t tell” years in the U.S. military were difficult for homosexual service members. But now that the discriminatory policy is being eliminated, many gays and lesbians who were forced out of the military want to go back to servi...   read more

A former member of Afghanistan’s defense forces, Sabar Lal Melma was killed recently by NATO troops following his long stint as a detainee in Guantánamo.   At the time of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, Melma was a commander ...   read more

In a move that floored his environmental supporters, President Barack Obama late last week killed a tough new anti-smog plan proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).   Obama’s decision was exactly what Republicans and business in...   read more

Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who played an instrumental role in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is currently under arrest without criminal charge in Pakistan.   As part of the secret plan to track down and capture bin Laden, the U.S. wa...   read more

Nevada’s attorney general last week expanded her state’s mortgage fraud lawsuit against Bank of America, a move that could have serious consequences for the embattled bank and a potential settlement between national banks and other attorneys gen...   read more

The dire warnings about the financial state of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) may soon become dire reality unless Congress can agree to new financing for the cash-strapped agency.   In what has become an annual refrain, Postmaster General Patric...   read more