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

Unlike certain corporate powers that make billions of dollars and pay no taxes, illegal immigrants generate billions of tax dollars for state governments.   The Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy has concluded that unauthorized immigra...   read more

For more than 60 years, military personnel have been shielded from medical malpractice lawsuits. But that could end depending on what the U.S. Supreme Court decides to do with the case of former Air Force Sergeant Dean Patrick Witt.   Witt was...   read more

Scot Marciel could not have asked for a better way to celebrate his 25th year with the State Department than by receiving his first ambassador assignment. A specialist in trade and economics, the career diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign ...   read more

A lawsuit against chemical company Rohm and Haas has resumed in a Philadelphia courtroom, after the judge abruptly dismissed the jury last October because a plaintiff’s expert witness had changed his epidemiological report after the trial starte...   read more

Immigrants looking to speed up the process of becoming American citizens can now turn to the military. Although military service has long been a path to citizenship, because of a need for specialists and those with language skills, the U.S. Army...   read more

Recy Taylor may soon receive her apology. The 91-year-old African-American woman was raped in Alabama by a gang of Caucasian men in 1944, but never saw justice served as two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the suspects.   Th...   read more

On April 6, President Barack Obama nominated D. Brent Hardt to be the U.S. ambassador to the South American nation of Guyana.   Hardt earned a Bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Fletche...   read more

A longtime diplomat and cabinet official, Alfredo Vicente Chiaradia became ambassador of Argentina to the United States in December 2010.   Born on February 15, 1945, in Bahía Blanca, Chiaradia received his master’s degree in political economy...   read more

In Florida, where Republican lawmakers want to prevent public employee unions from collecting dues through government payroll systems, labor leaders have decided to pull their organizations’ accounts from banks connected to the Florida Chamber o...   read more

Match.com, the popular online dating website, has announced it will begin screening applicants against the national sex offender registry after it was sued by a woman claiming she was raped by someone she met through the service.   The new pol...   read more

Late for his show in the nation’s capital on April 19, Charlie Sheen received a police escort from the airport to the event venue, traveling up to 80 miles per hour along the way.   On the way, Sheen tweeted: “in car with Police escort in fron...   read more

1. In 2009, more than 1.7 million babies or 41.0% of all births were to unmarried women. For African-American, Native American and Hispanic women, a majority of births were out-of-wedlock. 2. The birth rate for mothers between the ages of 40 an...   read more

Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has taken exception to the assertion by The Wall Street Journal that it’s pointless to increase taxes on the wealthy.   Journal editors claimed that even a 1...   read more

It was one year ago that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up, killing 11 workers and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Since the accident, Congress has held 60 hearings and introduced 150 bills to improve th...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama has taken the position that law enforcement should be allowed to monitor Americans without a warrant.   The administration has appealed a federal appellate court ruling that nullified...   read more

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has given up his political hostages –namely, all of President Barack Obama’s unconfirmed nominees—in exchange for $50,000 to study a key port back home.   After learning that his pet project ...   read more