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

Jeremy Bernard has made history by becoming the first male, and openly gay, social secretary to a U.S. president. Bernard was an early supporter of President Barack Obama and helped raise millions of dollars for his 2008 presidential campaign. H...   read more

America’s most wounded soldier is going back to war.   U.S. Army Captain D.J. Skelton was blown up the night of November 6, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq, when the unit he was leading as a lieutenant was caught in a hail of bullets and exploding gre...   read more

The American Petroleum Institute (API), Big Oil’s chief lobbying operation, has decided to start contributing to political candidates, and that’s good news for the Republican Party.   With funding from corporations like ExxonMobil and Chevron,...   read more

Concerned that anti-government protests like those in North Africa and the Middle East might erupt in their country, Chinese authorities clamped further down on Internet access and singled out the U.S. ambassador for being in the wrong place at ...   read more

The American hate movement continues to grow in size, as the number of such groups topped 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began keeping track of the organizations in the 1980s.   Last year’s growth marked ...   read more

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated that dogs can not only sniff out cancer in patients, but also determine the particular kind a person has.    At Kyushu University, Yoshihiko Maehara and colleagues trained a Labrador retriever named Marin...   read more

Pamela E. Bridgewater was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica on October 26, 2010.   Bridgewater was born on April 14, 1947, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The daughter of a jazz trumpeter and a bank teller, she attended Walker-Grant High Sch...   read more

He has crisscrossed the country since his party took a beating in the November elections and expanded his outreach to the corporate community to demonstrate he’s not anti-business. But in the process, President Barack Obama has not visited with ...   read more

The United States has reached a level of combined government indebtedness not seen since the end of World War II, when the federal government borrowed heavily to fight a two-front war in Europe and the Pacific. Nowadays, the U.S. debt is serious...   read more

With industry developing fewer and fewer new drugs, the Obama administration has decided to start a government-run research center that would explore new remedies for diseases.   As part of the National Institutes of Health, the new National C...   read more

The U.S. military’s plan to create Afghan Local Police (ALP) units throughout Afghanistan is supposed to turn the population against the Taliban. But some of the ALPs are filled with undesirables ranging from former warlord loyalists to criminal...   read more

Buried inside a U.S. House budget bill to keep the federal government operating past March is a controversial provision that would remove the endangered species classification for wolves in the Rocky Mountains.   Pushed by Republicans, the pla...   read more

Business was absolutely booming for the American arms industry during the Great Recession; in 2009 alone, U.S. defense companies sold nearly $247 billion in weapons worldwide. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has determined t...   read more

Making one of the most sought after cell phones in the U.S. has proven to be dangerous for the health of workers in China.   Apple has admitted that 137 workers at a Chinese factory producing iPhones in Suzhou have become seriously ill from ex...   read more

Medical studies performed by the U.S. Army and Marines Corps have found troops are carrying excessive amounts of weight on their bodies, due to body armor and other equipment, resulting in increasing numbers of neck, spine and other serious inju...   read more

Much to the relief of Wall Street, and the frustration of its critics, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has hired a corporate attorney to head the agency’s new whistleblower office.   Sean McKessy, former corporate secretary at AOL...   read more