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

Waste Control Specialists is looking to make money off low-level radioactive waste from three dozen states by offering to store it in a remote area along the Texas and New Mexico border. But the proposed storage has upset activists in Texas and th...   read more

The most recent employment figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) were discouraging, with the overall unemployment rate rising to 9.8%, the worst in seven months. However, November was particularly bad for Hispanic workers. For...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Government Printing Office (GPO) is William J. Boarman, a longtime labor union executive who began his career in the printing business and who has represented organized printers. He was nominated on Apri...   read more

Philip Murphy’s days as U.S. ambassador to Germany may be numbered. However, many of the media accounts have misrepresented Murphy’s position. Among the thousands of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks was one that the media characterized as...   read more

Fracking is becoming a nasty word for many Americans with underground wells. The term, which is a shortcut for “hydraulic fracturing,” applies to the method of extracting natural gas by injecting the earth with chemically-tainted water to break ...   read more

Nearly 10,000 Filipino survivors of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship or their relatives may finally see some of the money owed them after first filing a lawsuit in the mid-1980s. Marcos’ estate has avoided paying the plaintiffs nearly $2 billio...   read more

A federal judge for the past 15 years, William K. Sessions III has chaired the United States Sentencing Commission since October 2009. Created in 1984 to deal with disparities in sentencing in different states, the Commission develops sentencing...   read more

A veteran diplomat with more than 30 years of experience, William A. Stanton has served as director of the American Institute in Taiwan since August 2009. The Institute has served as the de facto U.S. embassy in Taiwan since 1979, when the Unite...   read more

Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, has continually stonewalled federal attempts to learn all the details leading up to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The Department of Justice has filed suit in federal court demanding...   read more

Because they fulfill the combat duties of warfare, male soldiers and their recent spike in suicides have garnered considerable media attention. But the problem of veterans taking their own lives has also become serious among women, who are endur...   read more

Federal law enforcement agencies don’t have to seek a court order to conduct real-time surveillance of credit card transactions of individuals. All that’s required is the filing of an administrative subpoena, which does not involve getting a jud...   read more

Thomas W. Padden, acting director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), is a veteran prosecutor with experience handling drug cases for the U.S. Department of Justice.   Padden received his Bachelor of Science from the ...   read more

After nearly three decades of work for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), Victor M. Fortuno was appointed interim president in January 2010. The LSC is a private, non-profit corporation established by the federal government to help low-income...   read more

For two years, politicians and the media have been expressing opinions about the $700 billion set aside for the “Wall Street Bailout” by the Treasury Department and about the bailouts of mortgage enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But that ...   read more

U.S. officials have long denied the existence of American military operations inside Pakistan and Yemen, for fear of upsetting the local Muslim populations. But the recent publication of State Department cables by WikiLeaks proves that U.S. forces...   read more

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) might want to have a talk with some of her caucus members. Bachmann founded the House of Representatives Tea Party Caucus because she said Americans were fed up with government over-spending.   But...   read more