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

Regardless of what former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev thinks, hundreds of women in Russia think Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his awesomeness should return to the presidency.   After serving back-to-back terms as president last decade (t...   read more

Having passed on a Harvard professor who helped create the new agency, President Barack Obama has decided to go with a former state attorney general of Ohio to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But it seems no matter who Obama selects...   read more

This may help explain why House Republicans don’t feel compelled to cut a deal with President Barack Obama over raising the debt ceiling: Most of their constituents think not raising the limit won’t harm the economy.   A new poll from the Pew Re...   read more

While lawmakers in Congress argue over funding for America’s next great space telescope, Russia this week launched its Spektr-R radio telescope which is expected to be thousands of times more powerful than the United States’ famed Hubble telesco...   read more

After two and a half years of nominating struggles and partisan roadblocks, President Barack Obama was able to celebrate an important judicial landmark this week: The confirmation of the first-ever openly gay man to the federal bench.   Equally ...   read more

BP has no shortage of leaky or corroded pipes in its Alaskan oil fields.   Over the weekend one of its eight-inch pipelines burst open at the Lisburne Production Centre, spilling thousands of gallons of methanol and oily water. When ProPublica r...   read more

Having adopted a state budget with more than a billion-dollar surplus, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has decided to throw a bone to government employees who lost their collective bargaining rights years ago.   About 24,000 of the more than 28...   read more

Once the space shuttle Atlantis completes its final mission this week, America’s space program will shift from a purely government-run operation to a partially for-profit endeavor by corporations.   With the costs of space travel difficult to ...   read more

Some of today’s most popular technologies are making it easier to find what we’re looking for. They’re also making us forget what we’ve found, and perhaps everything else.   Two new studies show Google and GPS navigation systems may be bad for...   read more

With Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. on its heels from the British phone-hacking scandal, a liberal group in the U.S. has accused the media mogul of financing a million-dollar lobbying effort in Washington to weaken an anti-bribery law that it may h...   read more

Any prison break involving nearly 60 inmates is enough to make the news, even in a Mexican border town where drug cartels dictate what gets reported.   In Nuevo Laredo, where drug smugglers regularly threaten reporters, editors and publishers ...   read more

America’s military is expected to defend the country regardless of the direction of attack, whether it is by land, air, sea, outer space or cyberspace. And like the War on Terror that never ends, this is a battlefield that is never abandoned.   ...   read more

Mankind’s taste for tuna has pushed the majority of the fish species to the brink of endangerment, according to a group of international environmentalists.   The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed five of the eigh...   read more

Following release of a study linking a controversial coal-mining technique to birth defects, industry lawyers responded by insinuating the health problem was just as likely caused by inbreeding among local residents.   “The study failed to acc...   read more

With World Cup soccer coming in 2014, Brazil has decided to try to clean up its reputation as a leader in sexual tourism, especially that involving children.   The nation’s human rights minister, Maria Nunes, has vowed to close down illegal bu...   read more

Sheila Siwela was appointed as Zambia’s ambassador to the United States on June 25, 2010.   She earned a diploma in Social Work from the University of Zambia, a bachelor’s degree in Administration from Canada’s University of Western Ontario, a...   read more