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

After more than 30 years as a diplomat, Patrick S. Moon is finally getting his first crack as an ambassador. After holding a variety of posts covering issues from Africa to Europe to South Asia, he was sworn as U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herz...   read more

A 20-year career diplomat and African affairs specialist, J. Thomas Dougherty received his first chance to serve as an ambassador in taking over the top post at the U.S. embassy in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. He was nominated by Pre...   read more

Osama bin Laden’s death has not left al-Qaeda leaderless, or without presence around the globe.   Stepping in to replace bin Laden as the top al-Qaeda man is Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militan...   read more

Houston, Texas, was not the place to work in 2010 if you were an employee of the U.S. Postal Service. According to the USPS, which issues an annual list to coincide with National Dog Bite Prevention Week, there were nearly 5,700 dog attacks agains...   read more

A member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission since its inception in 2001, William A. Reinsch was first appointed by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, and most recently reappointed to the commission by Senate Demo...   read more

Louis Harold Joseph has served as Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States since September 14, 2010.   Joseph was born in Cap-Haïtien to parents who were both teachers. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the Faculty of Law ...   read more

Journalist Jake Adelstein is suing National Geographic Television to stop it from airing a semi-documentary on the Japanese mafia that he says might get him killed. Adelstein, the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in ...   read more

There has been so much talk in Washington and in the news about the national debt, terrorism, wars and healthcare that one might think these are the issues that most concern Americans in 2011. But opinion polls consistently show that none of the...   read more

A little more than half of the nation’s states have joined together to challenge the federal healthcare reform law, arguing that the legislation’s core requirement for all Americans to carry health insurance, known as the health insurance mandat...   read more

Echoing the sentiments of most college football fans, including both President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Justice has posed the question to the National Collegiate Athletic Association: Why no playoffs?   ...   read more

Private security firms stand to earn at least $3 billion guarding diplomats in Iraq, as the U.S. military gradually downsizes its remaining presence in the country.   In September, the State Department announced a list of eight security compan...   read more

With World War II more than 65 years in the past, it is rare to see trials like the one involving Sándor Képíró of Hungary.   Képíró, 97, faces charges in a Budapest court of committing war crimes while a member of the police force that had si...   read more

A federal prosecutor is going after Deutsche Bank AG for bad home loans that wound up costing the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance payments.   U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has filed a civil lawsuit in New York fed...   read more

Boeing has returned $1.6 million so far to the federal government for overcharging the U.S. Army for helicopter parts.   The refund was initiated by an audit from the inspector general of the Department of Defense, which uncovered extraordinar...   read more

Just how accurate are the political pundits who appear on television and write regular columns in newspapers? Students in a public policy class at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, studied the predictions of 26 public figures made between Sep...   read more

Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi has lost control of enormous sums of money that have been stashed away in Western banks, thanks to the efforts of American, British and Swiss officials to freeze assets belonging to the embattled leader.   When...   read more