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

Civil unrest can be brought about by a government’s change in economic policy, specifically efforts to reduce spending or impose harsh austerity measures. Researchers at the Centre for Economic Policy Research reviewed historical data from the 1...   read more

The rise of income inequality in the United States, with the rich accumulating greater and greater proportions of the nation’s wealth, has created opportunities for ex-military and police to become guardians of the upper strata.   According to...   read more

Sprint Nextel Corp. has been ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $600,000 to victims of the June 25, 1996, Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.   The order arose out of a lawsuit filed by families of those who died in the terrorist a...   read more

With gasoline consumption on the decline, the government of the Netherlands is experimenting with putting meters in cars so it can charge citizens for how much they drive.   Drivers are assessed not only for the miles they rack up, but also fo...   read more

Democrats are again trying to limit the practice of sealing legal settlements that arise from product liability and other types of lawsuits, arguing that the public has a right to know about potential safety and public health problems.   The S...   read more

It’s been open season on doctors and nurses in recent years, according to the International Red Cross, which has issued alarming numbers on attacks, some intentional, targeting medical professionals in war zones.   The International Committee ...   read more

It survived the Great War, the Great Depression and the Second World War. But the House of Reeves wasn’t able to withstand the riots that swept across England.   The family-owned furniture store had been in business since opening its doors i...   read more

Virginia’s correctional department has been ordered by a federal judge to explain why it allows prisoners to have only religious CDs, after an inmate sued for being denied a collection of Dylan Thomas’ poetry.   Plaintiff Owen North filed his ...   read more

With prosperity comes indulgence, and many in China are taking advantage of their wealth by buying cars, homes … and mistresses.   While no statistical information reflects the growing trend, plenty of anecdotes have surfaced in China revealin...   read more

Unhappy with the White House’s legal position, Democratic leaders of Congress have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging President Barack Obama’s position on Medicaid.   The dispute stems from Douglas v. Independent Living Cent...   read more

Chicago has a lot of things floating around in its drinking water that residents probably shouldn’t be consuming, including the toxic metal hexavalent chromium.   An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that the city’s water contains lev...   read more

It was supposed to attract two million visitors a year and feature a full-scale replica of a slave ship. But the one-of-a-kind, $100-million United States National Slavery Museum is little more than a fading dream, now 10 years on since former V...   read more

Soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who do not belong to a religion will finally get equal time on the rock stage, as base commanders have agreed to allow an atheist-themed concert to take place next year.   Secularists have complained abo...   read more

After two decades of waiting and not getting a vital road resurfaced, hundreds of women in the town of Barbacoas, Colombia, began a sex strike to make their point.   About 300 women decided in June to withhold all sexual favors until the road le...   read more

The nearly 40 military personnel killed on Saturday in Afghanistan may have been lured into a trap by the Taliban employing a relatively new kind of rocket to bring down the helicopter carrying Navy SEALs and others.   The 38 people killed whe...   read more

Rather than expose themselves to U.S. media scrutiny, not to mention the American judicial system, pharmaceutical companies in the United States are increasingly turning to foreign nations to test their new drugs. The trend in outsourced clinica...   read more