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

Accused of bilking the federal government and the state of Texas out of $40 million, the city of Dallas has reached a settlement to resolve fraudulent claims involving the Medicare and Medicaid programs.   According to a press release from the...   read more

School officials can now request locally-grown fresh produce through a federal program designed to provide children with healthy foods.   Thanks to a policy change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, school districts can specify that they w...   read more

It turns out that more children were detained at Guantánamo than the U.S. government previously admitted.   Based on documents newly released by WikiLeaks, the Center for the Study of Human Rights in Americas at the University of California Da...   read more

Citing partisan politics and a misunderstanding of how economics and money supply work together, Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond has decided to withdraw as a nominee for Federal Reserve governor.   The MIT professor’s nomination has encounter...   read more

Getting into trouble has not put a damper on business for the nation’s largest defense contractors.   According to the Department of Defense’s rankings for 2010, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon continue...   read more

The days of having to turn down your television’s volume during commercial breaks may be coming to an end.   Responding to decades of complaints, the U.S. government is crafting rules that will force broadcasters to show commercials at the sam...   read more

Two inmates in Louisiana’s prison system have spent nearly four decades in solitary confinement, raising cries of protests by human rights and prisoner advocates.   The two men in question are Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman Wallace, 69, both o...   read more

Long before KBR, a one-time subsidiary of Halliburton, got into trouble over its government contracts during the Iraq war, the firm was part of a tax controversy involving Lyndon Johnson before he became president of the United States.   In 19...   read more

While the Obama administration has continued to focus its mortgage relief program, the Home Affordable Modification Program, on the problem of risky loans, the biggest cause of foreclosures these days is actually unemployment.   With the natio...   read more

The State Department is refusing to allow the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction to conduct an audit of the department’s multibillion-dollar training program of Iraqi police.   As the State Department sees it, the special inspec...   read more

One of the United States’ most sophisticated spy agencies can find the likes of Osama bin Laden, but it can’t identify those defrauding it before it’s too late.   According to the Baltimore Sun, at least 11 individuals have been charged within...   read more

Long on paper but also long on loopholes, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act adopted by congressional Democrats a year ago is now in the hands of regulators charged with implementing the sprawling legislation that was ...   read more

Homicide detective Alois Mabhunu of Zimbabwe has spent the past two weeks in jail for using the private toilet of dictator Robert Mugabe at an international trade expo.   Mabhunu was on surveillance duty at the trade fair when he found himself...   read more

Goldman Sachs reportedly has been subpoenaed by the Manhattan district attorney, who is investigating the investment bank’s role in the financial crisis.   Wall Street critics have accused Goldman of knowingly selling bundles of bad mortgages ...   read more

America’s efforts to carry out nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan could end up wasting billions of taxpayer dollars once the U.S. military pulls out of both countries.   An examination of projects by the Commission on Wartime Contracting ...   read more

With record floods flushing out the Mississippi River basin, the terminus of the nation’s largest river—the Gulf of Mexico—is set to experience the worst dead zone ever.   The Gulf is no stranger to dead zones, a product of agricultural waste ...   read more