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

Mark M. Boulware was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Chad on September 29, 2010.   Boulware was born in 1948 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1956, he and his family, parents Everett and Alice, and three siblings, moved to Iowa P...   read more

Polish lawyers representing detainee Abu Zubaydah have been unsuccessful in getting help from the Department of Justice under President Barack Obama to confirm that the CIA held their client at a secret prison in northern Poland eight years ago....   read more

Beware of history textbooks published by Five Ponds Press, which is based in Connecticut, but provides most of its textbooks to the Virginia Department of Education. Two of the company’s books, Our Virginia: Past and Present and Our America: To ...   read more

In a town where almost 40% of the police force has been accused of racial profiling, Hispanic residents have given up on East Haven, Connecticut, and are moving out.   Both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division are...   read more

Eight homeless young people died in New Orleans this week when the abandoned warehouse they were squatting in went up in flames and they were overcome by carbon monoxide. The five men and three women, ranging in age from their teens to early 20s...   read more

Humanitarian and civil rights organizations are protesting the U.S. government’s decision to resume deportations to Haiti, which was ravaged by an earthquake in January.   Advocates are upset over the move by the Immigration and Customs Enforc...   read more

BP is facing a $10 billion class action lawsuit filed by those living near its Texas City oil refinery, which has been the site of explosions, pollution leaks and numerous fatalities in recent years.   The plaintiffs characterize BP as “a know...   read more

The United States can’t reopen its last operating rare-earth-minerals mine fast enough, now that China has again cut its exports of the highly valuable minerals. After slashing exports in October by 70% over the previous year, the Asian giant deci...   read more

Rather than blame high-level officers for the outcome, the U.S. Army has concluded that the vagaries of warfare caused nine soldiers to die at the battle of Wanat in Afghanistan.   An earlier assessment of the battle faulted battalion and brig...   read more

In an unusual case, a wife has been given the go-ahead to sue her husband for damages relating to forced labor.   Russian immigrant Natalya Shuvalova paints an ugly picture of her American husband, Joe Cunningham, whom she met through eHarmony...   read more

President Barack Obama selected White House ethics lawyer Norman Eisen to be ambassador to the Czech Republic in June 2010, and his Senate confirmation hearing was held on August 5. However, Republican objections, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley of I...   read more

Call them what you want...lettermarks, phonemarks, “soft” earmarks, they all do the same thing: direct money to a state or congressional district at the behest of a senator or representative. But some Republicans have been thumping their chests ...   read more

Four billion dollars later and nearly 100 U.S. banks that got help from the federal government are in danger of collapsing. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was supposed to only help healthy financial institutions weather the crisis that u...   read more

When federal immigration officials don’t communicate with local law enforcement about illegal immigrants who have broken the law, it’s the accused who benefit.   An investigation by the Columbus Dispatch uncovered numerous examples where Immig...   read more

An appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against Home Depot, which is accused of not providing seats for employees despite having available space to do so. The litigation was brought by Devon Harris and Lawrence Winston, cas...   read more

The small Mexican town of Guadalupe, only two miles from the border with Texas, now has no police force after gunmen kidnapped the last remaining officer, Erika Gándara.   Guadalupe, caught in the middle of a drug war between two cartels, had ...   read more