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

While running for president a few years ago, a feat he may repeat for the 2012 campaign, Republican Mike Huckabee proposed a bold open-government idea: publish every federal government expenditure online within 24 hours.   Such a plan for tran...   read more

Rebels battling the reign of Muammar al-Gaddafi are set to enlarge their war chest with the export of their first oil shipment since taking control of Libya’s eastern oil fields.   About one million barrels of crude will be loaded onto a tanke...   read more

Regardless of what the Obama administration says or what the general public thinks, the war in Iraq is not over. The proof is in the caskets still coming home.   Since President Barack Obama declared last August that combat operations had ende...   read more

The heart attack rate in New Orleans was three times higher in 2009 than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck four years earlier, according to a new medical study.   Prior to August 2005, when the storm hit, heart attacks represented 0.7% of...   read more

American victims of a foreign terrorist attack cannot take possession of ancient artifacts belonging to Iran, ruled a U.S. federal appeals court this week in a long-running legal battle.   The case stems from a September 4, 1997, triple suicid...   read more

In less than three years, Pointer Media Network has become a behemoth in the world of consumer tracking. The company claims to monitor 76% of American households to learn what people buy, so it can sell this information to retailers hawking thei...   read more

Hailed as a scientific breakthrough, scientists at MIT say they have developed the first artificial “leaf” that could revolutionize solar energy production and positively impact lives in the developing world.   The advanced solar cell, no bigg...   read more

Here is one more example that the gap between the super-wealthy in the United States and the rest of Americans is growing wider and wider.   A group of 25 hedge fund executives in 2010 managed to earn a combined $22.1 billion—an amount equivalen...   read more

Three employees of Transocean, owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, have refused to cooperate with a federal investigation into last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.   The U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, ...   read more

For the first time in more than a quarter century, the Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to change the definitions of small businesses with respect to government contracting. The new rules could result in 9,450 additional companies, most...   read more

There is a saying that “There are no atheists in foxholes,” meaning that in times of war, every soldier believes in God. Wrong. A group of atheists, agnostics, humanists and others based at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg have formed an organization ...   read more

Since April 2010, Craig N. McLean has served as Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which is an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   McLean grew up on the Pass...   read more

It turns out that going into banking during the last decade really paid off (literally), regardless of the effects that the financial crisis and the succeeding Great Recession had on the rest of the economy.   Average compensation for bank emp...   read more

Whether it’s $30 billion, $60 billion or $100 billion, slashing the federal budget means cutting back on a lot of programs. But farm subsidies are not facing the axe, and having nearly two dozen lawmakers receiving such financial support may hav...   read more

With the military situation in Iraq no longer requiring the same demand for explosives experts, the U.S. Army is back to finding out the best bomb disposal soldiers it has.   This week, the Army conducted its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team o...   read more

Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al-Mughairy became ambassador of Oman to the United States on December 2, 2005.   Al-Mughairy obtained a B.A in Business Communications from the High Politechnical Institute, Cairo and a Master’s degree in Economics from t...   read more