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

Deborah K. Jones assumed the post of U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait on April 19, 2008. Raised in New Mexico, she earned a B.A. in History from Brigham Young University, and an M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College of the...   read more

For the first time in history, an Arab dictator has been overthrown by a popular revolution. On Saturday, January 15, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee to Saudi Arabia—another Arab dictatorship—after a widespread upri...   read more

Don’t expect anyone to be punished for the destruction of torture tapes by the CIA. Responding to a request from civil libertarians that the CIA should be held in contempt of court for destroying the tapes, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerste...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States.   After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s l...   read more

Since the death of Senator Robert W. Byrd (D-West Virginia) on June 28, 2010, a bona fide war hero, Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), has served as President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate. The President pro tempore (aka President pro tem, Latin...   read more

An early political supporter of President Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, David I. Adelman became U.S. ambassador to Singapore on April 29, 2010.   Born in New York City, Adelman grew up in Atlanta. The son of a hardware salesman and a ...   read more

Contrary to its own policy of staying out of capital punishment matters, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has helped two states import from the United Kingdom a scarce type of anesthetic used in lethal injections.   The FDA is charged wi...   read more

For first time in its history, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded a clean water permit for a coal mining operation, a move that is likely to provoke backlash from the industry.   The decision in effect kills the Spruc...   read more

The Department of Defense is on the hook for paying more than $1 billion just to feed the U.S. Marine Corps, now that a contract with a France-based company has swelled with added costs.   What was supposed to cost $881 million is now looking ...   read more

With the war in Afghanistan spilling over into Pakistan, where the CIA has launched numerous drone attacks on insurgents, the Obama administration selected Cameron Munter, a veteran diplomat with experience in Iraq, to run the U.S. embassy in Is...   read more

Asif Chaudhry has been the U.S. ambassador to Moldova, a small country in southeast Europe sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, since July 11, 2008. Moldova, which declared its independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, has seen a suc...   read more

For the past seven years, federal law has severely limited the tracing of gun sales by merchants, keeping researchers and the public in the dark over unscrupulous stores that sell to criminals. President Barack Obama vowed during the 2008 campai...   read more

Perhaps Americans can learn something from their northern neighbor regarding home finance and staving off mortgage disasters.   While the U.S. has struggled with its crippled housing market since 2008, Canada is doing just fine. Not a single C...   read more

Celebrity Courtney Love has gone too far this time, says fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir (a.k.a. Dawn Younger-Smith). The singer/provocateur is being sued for insulting remarks she posted via Twitter about Simorangkir, who is owed $4,000 for c...   read more

What’s good for today could wreak bankruptcy tomorrow for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), says Republican Newt Gingrich about the plan regarding “Forever Stamps.”   U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue wants to go exclusively with forever sta...   read more

It has been nearly 47 years since Frank Morris, an African-American business owner in Ferriday, Louisiana, was killed when members of the Ku Klux Klan set fire to his shoe store in 1964. The identity of the culprits has remained unknown, but a l...   read more