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

When times are tough and people are angry, even God has a tough time pulling down high approval ratings.   A new survey by Public Policy Polling found that only 52% of American voters approve of God’s performance. Nine percent disapprove, and ...   read more

After serving as an ambassador and handling other foreign affairs roles since the 1980s, Dato Paduka Haji Yusoff bin Haji Abd Hamid became ambassador of Brunei to the United States in November 2009.   Born on March 1, 1949, in Kuala Belait, Ha...   read more

Despite his election on a pro-choice platform, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon permitted two anti-abortion bills to become law this week.   Conservative lawmakers in the state legislature sent Nixon two identical abortion-restriction laws, one fro...   read more

On the surface it appeared last week that eight small banks repaid the Department of the Treasury more than $100 million for loans received during the 2008 bailout of the financial industry. But the Project on Government Oversight found somethin...   read more

In the wake of Japan’s worst-ever civilian nuclear catastrophe, the government failed to take precautions against radiated feed being consumed by cattle as a result of the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant meltdown. The result has alarmed the populat...   read more

A six-year board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Martin J. Gruenberg was nominated to be chairman of the FDIC by President Barack Obama in June 2011. He will function as acting chairman until his confirmation hearing in the ...   read more

A retired utilities executive, John E. Bryson was considered a low-profile choice as President Barack Obama’s next secretary of commerce. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t room for controversy when Obama named Bryson in May.   For starters, Bry...   read more

Military veterans suffering from serious mental health problems were left on waiting lists last year instead of receiving immediate assistance through the Department of Veterans Affairs, resulting in multiple suicide attempts.   The news surfa...   read more

It’s bad enough when foreign aid dollars headed for a war zone are siphoned off by government insiders and their wealthy friends before reaching the impoverished people it is meant for. But it’s doubly frustrating when it ends up in the hands of...   read more

Nearly 150 years after the Civil War, Alabama is still paying taxes that originated in response to that conflict. And it’s aggravating historic site lovers across the state.   In an effort to finance care for about 60,000 Confederate veterans,...   read more

Other than a few state university officials, no California government employee made more money last year than Dr. Jeffrey Rohlfing, a prison physician who’s done very little doctoring in recent years.   According to a Los Angeles Times investi...   read more

Things have gotten nasty between two congressional representatives from Florida, and both sides are trying to leverage the situation for political contributions.   It all began when Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz (who also chairs the Democrat...   read more

From food assistance to Medicare, politicians in Washington have discussed various ways to trim the budget deficit. But the most costly federal agency—the Department of Defense—has been treated by conservatives as a sacred cow, with no willingness...   read more

What’s the difference between the price of an airline ticket and the cost of fees an airline charges to fly?   You can easily look up the price of a ticket. But it’s not so simple to calculate fees for regular baggage, oversized baggage, meals...   read more

The collateral damage from the phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom that is enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. keeps piling up. Here is a sampling of the numerical highlights produced so far:   4,000: Estimated number of phone hacki...   read more

Democrats in Wisconsin would like nothing more than to recall Governor Scott Walker, who has been a lightening rod in the state since taking office in January. But how to go about recalling him has Democrats wringing their hands over when to lau...   read more