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

It’s safe to say that the dozen members of Congress charged with coming up with a plan for trimming $1.5 trillion from the federal budget won’t lack for input from lobbyists.   It turns out that the six Republicans and six Democrats on the Joi...   read more

Paul D. Wohlers, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Balkan nation of Macedonia on August 2, 2011. Wohlers has previous experience in Macedonia.    Born circa 1952, Wohlers graduated from the ...   read more

Lewis Lukens, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, has served as the U.S. ambassador to Senegal and to Guinea-Bissau since July 11, 2011. As the son of a diplomat, Lukens once lived in Senegal as a child.   His father, Alan W. Lukens...   read more

Two Secret Service agents involved in the arrest of a Colorado man for supposedly assaulting Vice President Dick Cheney in 2006 have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The agents insist they are immune from a First Amendment lawsuit filed by St...   read more

On August 2 researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs published a paper that concluded the anti-psychotic drug, risperidone, was no more effective than a placebo when it came to helping veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress dis...   read more

Being known as a facilitator of secret police and torturers is not ideal branding for any company. But that is the reputation that Germany’s Siemens and Finland’s Nokia are developing, as a result of their partnership that’s provided spy technol...   read more

John Heffern, a career diplomat who has spent much of his career working in East Asia, was nominated in May 2011 to serve as ambassador to Armenia. However, his nomination has been held up by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) as a protest agai...   read more

It took almost eight months after his nomination, but veteran Foreign Service officer David B. Shear officially became the ambassador to Vietnam, on August 4, 2011. Shear’s appointment was held up after Senators from both parties placed multiple...   read more

Supposedly for the sake of stabilizing world oil prices, but also at the expense of creating American jobs, the Obama administration decided this summer to use foreign-owned ships to transport oil from the U.S. stockpile. The big winners in the ...   read more

After consistently denying any responsibility for cyber attacks directed at the United States, China aired a television documentary that contradicts the longstanding denials.   On a state-run television program, the documentary about computer ...   read more

Before its landmark collapse in May 2009, Silverton Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, provided its board of directors with extravagant perks, including private jets, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).   FDIC lawyers are now suing ...   read more

After paying several thousand dollars just to get there, students from around the world have been spending their summer in Central Pennsylvania, packaging Hershey’s candies for low wages and long hours. They came to the U.S. on the promise of ex...   read more

Apparently former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made quite an impression on former dictator Muammar Gaddafi when she visited Libya three years ago.   As rebels ransacked Gaddafi’s compound this week, they found a photo album brimming with ...   read more

In an attempt to please Wall Street, the Obama administration is pressuring state attorneys general to accept a deal being brokered with big banks over their illegal and unethical foreclosure practices.   One AG in particular, New York’s Eric ...   read more

By war-on-terror standards, the U.S. involvement in Libya was a real bargain, according to new figures released by the Department of Defense.   After months of helping rebels take down Muammar Gaddafi, the U.S. has wound up paying just under $...   read more

Federal prosecutors are still investigating BP’s underestimated oil-spill numbers that were released during last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.   The Department of Justice is examining whether BP officials deliberately withheld data from t...   read more