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

The U.S. Navy was going to train its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages in military chapels—until Republicans in Congress raised an uproar over the idea.   Following the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Navy altered its chaplain traini...   read more

Acting under the belief that raw milk should never be consumed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a Pennsylvania Amish farmer to court to prevent him from selling unpasteurized milk.   After a yearlong investigation that in...   read more

From the highest to lowest courts in the land, Bob Dylan’s lyrics appear more frequently in legal opinions than any other singer or musical group, according to a University of Texas professor.   After searching legal databases to identify lyri...   read more

The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving warrantless tracking of suspects by law enforcement using GPS devices.   Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice reached out to the Supreme Cour...   read more

Strapped for cash, but determined to keep illegal immigrants out, the government of the state of Arizona plans to build more fence-line along the border with Mexico using private donations and prison labor.   The legislature has already author...   read more

Republicans in Florida are preparing to adopt a new law forbidding doctors from asking patients if they own guns.   Representing the first of its kind, the legislation is directed primarily at pediatricians, who routinely ask new parents if th...   read more

Claiming the Obama administration overstepped its bounds, the state of Utah is suing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar over the Department of the Interior’s designation of six million acres of state territory as “wild lands.”   Utah offici...   read more

Thomas Silverstein has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement, and because of that he’s suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons.   America’s “most isolated man” has been held in an extreme form of solitary confinement under a “no human...   read more

Angry over the revelation that Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight in Pakistan, Congress is now debating whether to make changes to the foreign aid given to the United States’ “inconstant” ally, known in some circles as a “frenemy.”   Pa...   read more

The landmark Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which threw out campaign contribution limits for corporations and unions, substantially altered the field of campaign spending.   After examining election reports, the Center for R...   read more

Frustrated over repeated strikes by its workers in Seattle, Boeing has sought to build a new airliner production line to South Carolina, an anti-union state. But the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled the manufacturer must have the ...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a Harvard-connected consulting firm for helping the government of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi without complying with federal law.   Monitor Group, an international consulting firm headquartered...   read more

Liechtenstein is one of the smallest independent countries in the world. With a population of barely 36,000, the choice of possible diplomats is a bit thin, so it is not surprising that the nation’s ambassador to the United States, Claudia Frits...   read more

SafeHouse, The Wall Street Journal’s answer to WikiLeaks, did not get off to a good start with the whistleblowing community.   SafeHouse is supposed to be a place where people can anonymously expose corporate “fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing...   read more

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran has lost a couple of his top aides to charges of sorcery by the country’s leading religious figures.   One, Abbas Ghaffari, was arrested for being involved with spirits and exorcism. One Iranian news websit...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off her squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had allegedly tried to rape her.   The girl, known as H.S. because ...   read more