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

On June 28, President Barack Obama announced his intention to replace one top donor with another in making his latest pick for ambassador to Luxembourg: Florida real estate developer Robert A. Mandell.   Obama first went with Cynthia Stroum, a...   read more

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will have to defend himself in court following a federal judge’s decision to green-light a lawsuit from an Army veteran who claims he was imprisoned and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq.   The vete...   read more

Alabama’s new anti-immigration law is so harsh it could turn Good Samaritans into outlaws, according to leaders in the Catholic, Episcopal and Methodist churches.   Three bishops and an archbishop are suing Governor Robert Bentley because they...   read more

You know the government has gone too far with classifying information when the person who spent more than three decades secreting away documents comes out and says enough is enough.   J. William Leonard, Washington’s former classification czar...   read more

Running amok in the streets is going to get a lot tougher if law enforcement picks up the latest crowd-control “toys” developed by the U.S. military.   One system under consideration by police is the Active Denial System (ADS), which operates ...   read more

Environmentalists have taken the U.S. Forest Service to court over its approval of mineral mining in Idaho that, they say, could pollute local waterways and habitat.   With the approval of the Forest Service, Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines o...   read more

Anders Behring Breivik, the man who murdered 77 people in Norway, is apparently quite the fan of American right-winger haters of Islam, based on the citations in his 1,500-page manifesto.   The American most cited (55 times) in Breivik’s writi...   read more

Security company McAfee recently discovered the largest series of cyber attacks to date, and while officials refused to say who was behind the hacking, they’re certain the culprit was a single national government.   Privately, computer experts...   read more

Imagine if your boss told you that due to budget cuts, you would have to go without pay for an indefinite period of time, and pay for your own job-related travel expenses while jetting around the country? That’s the unwelcome situation 40 safety...   read more

Amounting to less than a slap on the wrist, the CIA was ordered by a federal judge on Tuesday to reimburse the American Civil Liberties Union for legal fees after it failed to have the spy agency sanctioned for destroying evidence of torturing det...   read more

Federal transportation officials have decided to not delay three “airline passenger rights” provisions from taking effect this year, much to the consternation of airlines and travel agents.   The new rules require airlines to pay customers mor...   read more

Contrary to the government’s previous assurances, the crippled nuclear power plant in Japan still is leaking lethal amounts of radiation.   The owner of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), said Monday that record hig...   read more

A Dubai-based contractor has been accused of overbilling the Department of Defense by more than $4 million for work in Iraq.   According to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), Anham LLC and its subsidiary, Pioneer Ir...   read more

Opponents of patenting human genes lost a key battle in federal court this week, as a panel of judges overturned a lower court ruling that said the government could not exclusively restrict scientific work on DNA.   The U.S. Court of Appeals f...   read more

The Secret Service pays (quite literally) for the duty of protecting Vice President Joe Biden.   Whenever Biden returns to his waterfront home in Wilmington, Delaware, Secret Service agents stay in a cottage on the property—and pay $2,200 a mo...   read more

For 20 years U.S. Air Force officers training to operate America’s missile silos were instructed on the morality of war and the launching of a nuclear attack—with the aid of quotes from the Bible and a former Nazi SS officer.   The two-decade ...   read more