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

Perezi K. Kamunanwire has served as Uganda’s ambassador to the United States since May 15, 2006. He previously served as ambassador to Austria, Germany, and the Holy See (1986-1988), and as Uganda’s permanent representative to the United Nations...   read more

No wonder the Federal Reserve fought so hard to keep secret the names of banks that were bailed out during the height of the financial crisis of 2008. The biggest recipients were foreign—not American—institutions that benefited from hundreds of ...   read more

In a move described as “crazy stupid” by one supporter, President Barack Obama decided to accept an award for government transparency—behind closed doors.   Obama was supposed to receive the honor from good-government advocates a couple weeks ...   read more

Bats deserve better. So say federal and university researchers from the United States and South Africa who have pointed out the economic advantage bats provide in protecting agriculture by eating insects that are harmful to crops—and the potenti...   read more

Audrey Patrice Marks became Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States in May 2010.   Marks was born in St. Mary, Middlesex, Jamaica, and graduated from Marymount High School in Highgate. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Managemen...   read more

Carlos Gianelli Derois began serving as Uruguay’s ambassador to the United States on July 11, 2005. A native of Montevideo, Uruguay, Gianelli received a Doctor in Law and Social Studies (1964-1975) at the Law and Social Studies School in Montevi...   read more

Information systems at the Department of Defense may be vulnerable to cyber attacks now that a company it relies on for password-protected networks was itself a victim of hackers.   RSA, maker of the widely sold SecurID authentication system t...   read more

Authoritarian regimes in the Middle East have had plenty of help from American firms when it comes to censorship and spying on pro-democracy protestors.   One of the biggest players is Intel-owned McAfee Inc., provider of content-filtering sof...   read more

Scientists from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom claim the animal death toll from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have been dramatically higher than officially reported.   About 100 dead whales, dolphins and other...   read more

Four women from New Jersey are suing Campbell Soup for implying that its low-sodium soup contains less salt that its regular tomato soup. The plaintiffs insist the more expensive specialty soup does not have 25% less sodium, as Campbell leads co...   read more

Harley Lappin, head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has submitted his resignation after being arrested for drunk driving.   Lappin, the bureau’s director since April 4, 2003, announced on March 25 that he would step down. The decision came a...   read more

Picking up where the previous state attorney general—current Governor Andrew Cuomo—left off, New York AG Eric Schneiderman is going after Indian Point, one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants, arguing that its attempts to avoid fire safety...   read more

House Republicans have passed legislation four times this year killing the Obama administration’s home-loan modification program, with the latest attempt coming just this week. But the bills have had no chance of becoming law, due to opposition ...   read more

The nation’s largest financial institutions continue to sit on more than $1 trillion in excess reserves, a fact that has stymied economic growth during the recovery and that now poses a serious dilemma for the Federal Reserve. These are reserves...   read more

Exposed as spies and kicked out of the country, two Russian agents are seeking the return of their personal property from the United States, including computer equipment that may have aided their spying.   Vladimir and Lidia Guryev (aka Richar...   read more

Three police officers from El Reno, Oklahoma, will face trial for repeatedly shooting an 86-year-old woman with a Taser gun, a local judge has ruled.   The officers went to the home of Lona Varner on December 22, 2009, after her grandson and a...   read more