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

Saudi Arabia hasn’t fought a war since the 1930s, and already spends about 13% of its GDP on defense—so why would it agree to buy even more weapons as part of the richest arms sales ever by the U.S. government?   One possible explanation, acco...   read more

It’s been more than nine years since September 11, 2001, and the U.S. government continues to operate under the provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which President George W. Bush first implemented three days after the terrorist attacks o...   read more

Whether she wins or not, Meg Whitman already has accomplished something in her quest to become California’s next governor. With six weeks still left in the campaign, Whitman has spent more of her own money than any other individual running for o...   read more

Linda Simons, SeaWorld’s former safety director, claims she was fired for not following the orders of park officials to impede the federal government’s investigation of a trainer who was killed by an orca earlier this year.   In her lawsuit file...   read more

Appointed by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke on November 9, 2009, Bruce E. Borzino took over as director of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) after working in the public and private sectors designing, acquiring and modernizing bus...   read more

Efforts to extract oil from sand pits in Canada may be a harbinger of environmental troubles awaiting Utah if the state goes through with its own oilsands project, which would be the first of its kind in the United States.   In Canada’s Saskatch...   read more

More than half of the garment workers in Cambodia, where retail goods are manufactured for the West, temporarily ended their mass strike this week after industry officials agreed to more talks with union representatives.   On July 27, police i...   read more

General Craig R. McKinley has served as chief of the National Guard since November 2008, and in the process became the first four-star general in history to command the Guard.   McKinley received his commission as a second lieutenant in 1974 a...   read more

To be released from indefinite custody by the United States, a suspected terrorist must have quit being a member of al-Qaeda. But how can a detainee really demonstrate he has left the terrorist organization, while still in American detention? Mo...   read more

If it wasn’t for their long history of sports success, the New York Yankees might have a branding image problem in the Big Apple. The New York Police Department reports that criminals have taken a liking to donning Yankees caps and jerseys when ...   read more

One would think when spending $4 billion to develop new technology that would prevent terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would have at least made sure the equipment could fit at ...   read more

Local members of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers union in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. are protesting the decision by the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation to import artisans from China to work on a sculpture for the Natio...   read more

Confirming what most people have already known about their personal lives, researchers in the United Kingdom have determined that romantic relationships kill friendships. Robin Dunbar, head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropo...   read more

Nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Greece on June 3, 2010, and confirmed August 5, Daniel Bennett Smith was sworn in on September 7. He is a member of the Senior Foreign Service. Born circa 1955, Smith earned his B.A. in History from the Uni...   read more

A retired general from the U.S. Air Force, Bruce Allen Carlson has served as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since June 2009. The NRO is in charge of launching and maintaining the nation’s spy satellites. Carlson had no ...   read more

With poverty spreading, foreclosures on the rise and unemployment still high, Americans gathered in New York City on September 11, 2010, to protest… the building of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. (photos: Aaron Wallechinsky)        ...   read more