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

For all the hoopla about the huge dump of State Department cables by WikiLeaks, you’d think that they had flooded the Internet with hundreds of thousands of unedited material. In fact, as of January 29, WikiLeaks had released a mere 1% of the ca...   read more

The Veterans Benefits Administration gave out more money in disability payments than it should have over a span of 18 years, costing the government about $1 billion.   According to the inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...   read more

After 42 years of service, including 14 as director, Daniel Mulhollan is stepping down as head of the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The longest-serving leader in CRS history made a point of keeping his shop strictly neutral so as not to ...   read more

George A. Krol was nominated as U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan on July 1, 2010.   Krol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1956, and raised in Manchester Township, New Jersey, the youngest of three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Krol. He a...   read more

Helen Reed-Rowe, a member of the Senior Foreign Service, is the first U.S. ambassador dedicated to the Republic of Palau. Previously, the American ambassador to the Philippines used to also handle diplomatic relations with the tiny Pacific islan...   read more

Things had already reached a state of critical mass with the overloaded federal courts in Arizona when Jared Lee Loughner shot U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, including John Roll, the state’s senior judge, who died. But the...   read more

A Democratic congressman and a government watchdog group have accused the Obama White House of placing a higher importance on public relations than on scientific opinion during last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.   Reacting to a gover...   read more

A key defendant in what’s been described as the worst war-crimes case involving U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan has agreed to help military prosecutors.   Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska, a member of the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd...   read more

The U.S. government made 12,017,075 million pages of previously secret documents available to the public last year, a total that might seem impressive if it wasn’t for the goal set by President Barack Obama: 400 million pages by 2013.   The re...   read more

Nearly three years after his culinary encounter with the “dangerous substance,” Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has sued a congressional cafeteria for slipping an olive pit into the politician’s sandwich wrap. The offending morsel allege...   read more

The Great Recession is over for corporate America, but will still be felt by working Americans for years to come.   The most recent data available shows profits for Big Business are 12% above what they were in late 2007, demonstrating that cor...   read more

To better prepare its troops for modern urban warfare, the U.S. Marine Corps has opened a training center in the Southern California desert that’s nearly the size of downtown San Diego.   Known as the Combined Arms Military Operations on Urban...   read more

Juvenile Jordan Brown is set to be tried as an adult by a Pennsylvania court for allegedly murdering his father’s 8½-month pregnant fiancée when he was 11 years old.   The criminal case has garnered attention from child advocates in the U.S. a...   read more

The U.S. government so far has spent $13.4 million to build a special academy in Iraq for security officials without bothering to secure an agreement with the Baghdad government that the Iraqis are prepared to fund it once it’s completed.   No...   read more

Borrowing from America’s habit of blaming violent video games for horrific events, a Russian television news story has raised the question of whether the U.S.-made “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” was partly responsible for the bombing of Moscow...   read more

The Internet “kill switch” is coming back for consideration in the U.S. Senate. Having first been introduced last summer, the legislation, reintroduced by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), would give the preside...   read more