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

Once considered a rising star in veterans’ circles, Ray Jefferson has resigned his post as assistant secretary in the Department of Labor following an internal investigation that found he had improperly steered federal contracts to friends and f...   read more

As part of their cost-cutting agenda, House Republicans want to significantly reduce the budget of the Government Printing Office (GPO), which does considerably more than (as its name suggests) print documents.   GPO plays a major role in maki...   read more

Žygimantas Pavilionis is a career diplomat who became ambassador of Lithuania to the United States in August 2010.   Born on August 22, 1971, in Vilnius, Pavilionis grew up with parents who prized higher education; his father, Roland Pavilioni...   read more

A longtime cabinet minister and diplomat, Winston Thompson came out of retirement in April 2009 to serve as Fiji’s ambassador to the United States. His appointment was announced one week before Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo suspended his n...   read more

Recording law enforcement in the act of breaking the law can itself be an unlawful violation, as some states have taken the side of police against citizens filming instances of brutality or misconduct.   At least 12 states have made it illegal...   read more

More than 170 teachers and administrators spent 10 years helping students in the Atlanta school system cheat on a standardized test, according to an investigation launched by Governor Nathan Deal. The multiple-choice exam, known as the Criterion...   read more

The U.S. Navy set a record last year by firing 17 officers, and it is on pace to eclipse that mark in 2011.   So far this year naval leaders have discharged 15 commanders, with three of them coming in the same week this month.   Some observe...   read more

Call it the reversal of hell freezing over: the burning of frozen wasteland.   Only it’s already happened.   With global warming causing ice to melt at record rates in the Arctic, Alaska’s tundra has become exposed to the threat of wildfires. ...   read more

Officials in Sioux City, Iowa, have been told by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that they can find out how the decision was made to move a mail processing facility to another town.   As long as Sioux City forks over more than $800,000.   Onc...   read more

When the Department of Defense decides to buy a new weapons system, there’s at least a 50% chance the price tag will be higher than promised, based on a new government watchdog report.   A review of nearly 100 weapons programs by the Government ...   read more

Life in the country and small towns may be void of the congestion and crime of the big city. But rural living does not necessarily translate into better health, or for that matter better medical care.   The UnitedHealth Center for Health & Ref...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may relax conflict-of-interest rules that keep scientists with financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries from advising the regulatory body.   FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg ack...   read more

The legal saga of environmentalist Tim DeChristopher ended this week when a federal judge sentenced the Utah man to two years in prison for interfering with government auctions of energy leases.   In 2008, DeChristopher crashed a federal sale ...   read more

Realizing it made a big mistake, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided to cancel an expensive radiation-detection system intended to help customs officials foil terrorist attempts to smuggle nuclear bombs or material into the Uni...   read more

It is one of the largest, and certainly most powerful, myths in American politics today: that America’s debt is in the hands of foreigners, primarily the Chinese.   By repeatedly telling the American people that the U.S. national debt is contr...   read more

Non-profits can seek financial assistance from the Department of Homeland Security for buttressing their operations against terrorist attacks. But religious-oriented groups have the best shot of receiving funding from the Urban Areas Security In...   read more