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

Just as they did in 1995 after seizing control of the U.S. House, Republicans have stripped the limited voting power of representatives from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas. T...   read more

It took the state of Texas 30 years to figure out that Cornelius Dupree Jr. never belonged in prison for aggravated robbery. After DNA testing proved Dupree was not the culprit of a 1979 attack rape and robbery attack on a 26-year-old woman, the...   read more

The witches of Romania, a nation where people take their superstitions seriously, are ticked off at the government for making them pay taxes. And they intend to do something about it.   Under a new law, witches will now have to pay 16% income ...   read more

In keeping with the holiday spirit, Representative Darrell Issa (R-California), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, asked corporations last month to send him their wish list of government regulations they’d l...   read more

The State Department under President George W. Bush aggressively promoted genetically modified (GM) foods overseas, and discussed threats of economic retaliation against European countries that banned the importation of such crops.   Cables re...   read more

Waste Control Specialists has won the right to import low-level nuclear waste from around the country into Texas, marking a victory for billionaire Harold Simmons.   Simmons has been the second biggest individual donor to Texas Governor Rick P...   read more

Perhaps no other group in the United States has suffered more from the Great Recession than Native Americans. Over a three-year period, the American Indian unemployment rate nearly doubled, from 7.7% to 15.2%. In the same period, the unemploymen...   read more

In need of cyber warriors equipped with the latest IT knowledge, the Department of Defense has started a pilot program that will send some of its employees to work in the private sector for brief periods.   The plan allows Pentagon IT speciali...   read more

John Boehner (pronounced “BAY-ner”), a staunchly pro-business conservative, has spent 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, rising to the top of the Republican Party leadership by making himself useful to those above him in the hierarch...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refused to reveal how it decides which government documents to turn over to the public—in essence concealing how it goes about concealing.   The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibili...   read more

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has agreed to allow a white television news anchor fired for using the word “nigger” in a June 2007 newsroom meeting to proceed with his lawsuit against his former employer, WTXF Fox 29.   Tom Burlington claims ...   read more

Supreme Foodservice, provider of meals to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan since 2005, has won another contract with the Department of Defense, after the company hired the Pentagon’s top logistics leader who oversaw its work.   Having hired retire...   read more

Ronald Herrick, 79, who became the first successful organ donor in medical history when he gave a kidney to his twin brother, Richard, died on December 27, 2010, while recovering from heart surgery.   The December 23, 1954, transplant surgery ...   read more

Serving as an American diplomat, Commerce official, even the president of the United States, sometimes requires being a salesman for Boeing.   Another revelation brought about by the WikiLeaks publication of classified State Department cables ...   read more

School board officials in Tucson are standing by their Mexican American Studies program in the face of a new law that seeks to ban all ethnic studies in public schools.   The new law, which took effect January 1, prohibits classes that “promote ...   read more

The Department of Defense’s health plan, Tricare, has so far refused to cover a special treatment for veterans who have suffered brain damage as a result of combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.   Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is viewed by many ne...   read more