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

House Republicans are supporting a lobbying effort by corporations to repeal new rules requiring the disclosure of executives’ salaries.   Publicizing the pay of corporate leaders, which was included in the Wall Street reform legislation adopt...   read more

Set-top boxes, the equipment that comes with television cable and satellite services, have turned out to be real energy hogs, wasting billions of dollars in electricity each year.   Whether Americans are watching TV or not, the boxes run at fu...   read more

Rennie Gibbs faces a possible mandatory sentence of life in prison for taking cocaine while pregnant, because a prosecutor in Mississippi insists the drug use caused the stillborn death of her baby.   Gibbs, who was 15 when she became pregnant...   read more

Thousands of sailors soon will be forced ashore permanently, once the U.S. Navy decides who to discharge into the ailing civilian economy.   Because of the weak job market, fewer sailors have been leaving the service. Only 28% are leaving afte...   read more

Fed up with the presence of illegal immigrants in their state, lawmakers in Georgia recently adopted legislation intended to drive such individuals “back home.”   In the process of doing so, politicians have crippled Georgia’s largest economic...   read more

Convicted criminals who previously entered into plea agreements can be allowed to reduce their sentences in situations where a sentencing guideline was later changed, said the U.S. Supreme Court this week.   The ruling stemmed from the case of W...   read more

Tired of expensive and poor service, cities across the United States have taken to investing in their own high-speed Internet services and dumping those offered by private telecommunications companies.   More than 50 cities own fiber networks ...   read more

Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest suppliers of chicken, pork and beef products, recently paid a multi-million dollar fine to the U.S. government for bribing foreign nationals. But no company officials were singled out for blame or prosecut...   read more

Paul W. Jones, a career member of the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia on September 8, 2010.   Born in Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1960, Jones graduated fro...   read more

Critics of President Barack Obama have had an easy time recently throwing his own words back at him on tough issues like raising the national debt and being involved in Libya.   As president, Obama wants Congress to lift the national debt limi...   read more

Getting out of Guantánamo and going free is no longer a possibility for many detainees even after they have won legal battles in lower federal courts.   Those victories have repeatedly been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for ...   read more

A new species of mushroom discovered in Borneo has been named SpongeBob SquarePants by researchers. The fungus, Spongiforma squarepantsii, was found by biologists from San Francisco State University during an expedition to Borneo’s forests. They...   read more

Pamela L. Spratlen was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic on April 15, 2011.   She was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Washington State and California. Her father, Thaddeus Spratlen, was a professor in the Department of Mark...   read more

Oleksandr Motsyk was took over as Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States on June 11, 2010.   Motsyk was born on May 3, 1955, in the village of Horodets Volodymeretskoho, in the Rivne region of the Ukraine. In 1981 he graduated from Kyiv Sta...   read more

Half of the senior citizens of the United Kingdom have been taking prescription drugs that can impair brain function or cause death, according to a new medical study of 13,000 people aged 65 or older. Researchers from the University of East Angl...   read more

China’s government may be Communist, but that doesn’t mean the country as a whole is. Not by a long shot.   The latest figures on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership show that 80 million Chinese are members. That’s a lot of people—almost ...   read more