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

Risperdal, an anti-psychotic drug used to treat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is about as effective as a placebo, say medical researchers.   Experts with the Department of Veterans Affairs published a paper in the...   read more

The Fairness Doctrine was officially erased from the books of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday. Established in 1949, the rule required broadcasters to present controversial issues in a balanced manner that included opposing ...   read more

News of Goldman Sachs’ top executive hiring a defense attorney caught investors off-guard on Monday, causing Goldman’s shares to fall in value and leaving Wall Street wondering what’s next for the nation’s largest investment bank.   Lloyd Blankf...   read more

When the financial crisis of 2008 erupted and threatened to take down Wall Street’s biggest institutions, the federal government rode to the rescue, with even more money than was previously disclosed. In addition to the well-publicized disbursem...   read more

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, which became famous for trying to save the life of President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in 1963, has spiraled into a morass of poor medical care and faulty practices. Federal regulators are ...   read more

The United States’ leading food-assistance program has expanded by nearly 75% over the past four years, demonstrating the crippling effect of the Great Recession on a large segment of American society.   Today, there are almost 46 million peop...   read more

In eight years of warfare, the Iraq campaign has cost the United States many of its youngest men. Almost 1,300 of the more than 4,400 American troops killed in the Iraq war have been aged 18 to 21. More than half were in the lowest enlisted ranks....   read more

It is one of the most guarded statistics in corporate America today: the number of jobs available overseas versus the total within the United States.   Many large companies refuse to divulge their figures to the U.S. government, including Hewlet...   read more

Drug-abuse opponents want to know why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has dithered for a dozen years over tightening controls of hydrocodone, the nation’s second-most abused medicine (behind oxycodone). It is the primary ingredient of Vic...   read more

Florida’s 17th congressional district could use some help.   Correction, make that a lot of help.   The predominantly African-American district, which includes portions of inner-city Miami, including Liberty City, was recently determined to ha...   read more

State lawmakers and judges in Georgia have been put on notice by the FBI, whose local field office plans to start up a special investigative team targeting corruption by public officials.   Brian Lamkin, who heads Georgia’s FBI office, has not...   read more

The enormous size of the federal government’s Executive Branch can sometimes result in one hand not knowing—or working against—what the other is doing. Case in point: the Obama administration’s effort to expand broadband in rural communities.  ...   read more

This year is turning into the most costly on record in terms of weather-related disasters.   A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says 2011 so far has had nine disasters costing $1 billion or more. That to...   read more

The upside of global warming and the melting of the polar icecap is that the United States may be able to significantly expand its territorial interests at sea.   But that’s assuming other countries near the Arctic Ocean go along with America’...   read more

Thirty-seven years after construction first began, the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Jackson County in northeastern Alabama may yet become operational, if the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) spends billions of dollars more to finish the half-buil...   read more

Critics of Clifford L. Stanley have accused the Department of Defense’s top personnel manager of gross mismanagement and abusing his authority, prompting the Pentagon’s inspector general to launch an investigation.   Stanley was sworn in as th...   read more