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

Like no other presidential administration before it, the Obama administration is cracking down on government officials who leak classified information to the media. The latest case has been brought against Jeffrey Sterling, an ex-CIA officer who...   read more

Wall Street may soon become as much a foe as it has been a friend of the pharmaceutical industry. After spending decades pumping up the profits of Big Pharma by trading its shares, wealthy investors are now toying with the idea of financing whis...   read more

Republican Representative Tom Petri of Wisconsin wanted the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) last month to extend the deadline for public comments on the proposed closing of a mail processing facility in Oshkosh. Petri sent a letter from his Washingto...   read more

The recent fall from the sky of thousands of dead birds in Arkansas and Louisiana appears to be a disturbing development. However, incidents of unexpected substances falling from the sky have a long, long history. Here is a sampling.   1. MEAT...   read more

If it wasn’t WikiLeaks, then it might well have been someone else who eventually gained access to the State Department’s classified cables, given their not-so-secure repository.   WikiLeaks managed to get a hold of 251,287 communiqués because ...   read more

The New Year did not bring newer, tougher conflict-of-interest rules for companies working for the Department of Defense, as was feared by industry. Instead of imposing revamped regulations for defense contractors, the Pentagon decided to water ...   read more

The remains of 20 familyless veterans received full military honors on Saturday as part of the largest mass burial of its kind in U.S. history. The ceremony, conducted at Calverton National Cemetery on eastern Long Island, was part of a national...   read more

Patrick Donahoe assumed the office of Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service (USPS) on December 3, 2010. He oversees an agency that has about 580,000 employees in more than 33,000 facilities, delivering nearly half the world’s ma...   read more

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona), was shot through the head on Saturday, January 8. Back on March 22, 2010, just hours after Giffords voted to pass the health reform bill, the glass door of her office in Tucson was smashed  The following evenin...   read more

Pete Sessions of Texas and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania did not get off to a smooth start at the beginning of the 112th Congress. The Republican lawmakers skipped the official swearing in of all members on the House floor because they were a...   read more

As the deadline approaches for pulling out troops, the United States and its European allies are preparing to spend more money than ever on improving Afghanistan’s police and military, in the hopes they can take over the country’s security. The ...   read more

Despite a substantial drop in tax revenues during 2009, state governments managed to increase spending modestly, perhaps in part because the federal government gave out more in grants that year.   The U.S. Census Bureau reports that state reve...   read more

Thirteen years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, Las Vegas firefighter Robin Lawson is finally set to receive workers’ compensation coverage for her condition, after the state Supreme Court agreed she became ill as a result of he...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated career diplomat Bisa Williams to be U.S. ambassador to the African nation of Niger on November 30, 2009, but she was not confirmed by the Senate until August 6, 2010.   Williams was born in Trenton, New Jersey....   read more

There was no shortage of blame to go around, according to a presidential panel charged with investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling criticized everyone from ...   read more

Tim Griffin is back in Washington, DC, and in a twist of political irony, will help investigate those who try to make a mockery of federal laws, or government prosecutors. Kind of like what Griffin did a few years ago.   Griffin was once a Kar...   read more