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

Getting out of the Great Recession will require substantial changes in tax and public policy, writes Robert Reich, former secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. With job growth too weak to meet demand, Washington needs to make bold move...   read more

Captain Dale A. Goetz became the first U.S. Army chaplain to die in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Goetz, 43, was killed on August 30 in Afghanistan after he hitched a ride with a supply convoy in the Arghandab River Valley. The vehicle that the ca...   read more

Two men who captained the supply ship Fast Servant are suing ExxonMobil and the company they worked for, Edison Chouest Offshore, claiming a fuel tracking system installed on their ship led to pirates attacking and injuring them off the coast of N...   read more

Unionizing in Europe is one thing, but it’s quite another for European firms doing business in the United States. Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims many European companies that publicly embrace workers’ rights have actually undermined American emplo...   read more

A bad slice into the rough not only can burn a golf score but also the surrounding terrain. That’s what a golfer at Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine, California, found out on August 28 when he hit a rock while chipping his way back onto the course...   read more

Rayne Pegg has served as the administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) since July 6, 2009, after she was appointed, at the age of 33, to the position by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The AMS is responsible for administering pr...   read more

Drinking tap or well water for the residents of Pavillion, Wyoming (population: 165) is out of the question, and showering or washing dishes requires fan ventilation to avoid the risk of explosions, thanks to chemical contamination in the oil and ...   read more

The good news is that over the past seven months the private sector has added 630,000 jobs, demonstrating that there are some employment opportunities available to out-of-work Americans. The bad news is that that represents only 7.4% of the jobs l...   read more

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is happy to pass the baton to the Office of Postsecondary Education. Voted the worst agency to work for three times in a row, the FLRA finally has begun to turn things around internally, resulting in dr...   read more

Accused of committing genocide against your own people? Officially branded as a terrorist state? Have you harbored Islamist radicals, including Osama bin Laden?   No problem, the CIA is willing to work with you.   Such is the case with the gov...   read more

U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Villatoro took the unusual step of contacting two members of Congress from Illinois to prevent his unit from being deployed to Afghanistan in October before it was properly trained and equipped.   Villatoro belongs t...   read more

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim cleric who wants to build a $100 million mosque and community center near Ground Zero in New York City, has received a lot of attention relating to his religious beliefs, but there is another aspect of his life t...   read more

The Department of Defense appears to be getting less bang for its buck, while spending more than $2 trillion over the last 12 years, according to assessments by military watchdogs.   From 1998 until this year, the Pentagon’s annual budget went f...   read more

The economy has produced yet another black milestone for unemployment. As of January 2010, 49% of the 6.9 million Americans who lost jobs they had held for at least three years had found new jobs—the lowest reemployment rate on record, according t...   read more

Financial struggles are causing millions of Americans to skip owning life insurance, despite the increasing risks to families if a primary income earner should die. A study by the insurance industry-funded research firm LIMRA found that only 44% o...   read more

Concerns over America’s lack of rare earth minerals production has prompted Congress’ research arm to raise the question: Is the United States’ national security and economic well-being vulnerable to supply disruptions, particularly from China?  ...   read more