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

Vatican officials were displeased by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lawsuit to proceed in district court that seeks to prove the Catholic Church’s senior hierarchy was partly responsible for allowing American priests to molest young ...   read more

Local governments missed out on spending nearly $120 million in Federal Transit Administration earmarks that were available until September 2009, when the country was still steeped in recession. The $119.2 million, approved by Congress under SAFET...   read more

Top officials in the Afghanistan government are helping funnel billions of dollars out of the country, say U.S. investigators. Members of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration sent to Afghanistan estimate ...   read more

For someone who campaigned on the ideal of not succumbing to the politics-as-usual ways of Washington, President Barack Obama has embraced patronage and cronyism with real zeal when it comes to appointing ambassadors.   So far, President Obama h...   read more

It took three tries, but President Barack Obama finally got an appointment confirmed to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). After former FBI agent Erroll Southers’ nomination imploded over revelations that he accessed FBI databa...   read more

Had actor David Carradine received more attention from his personal assistant, he never would have resorted to a dangerous autoerotic act that took his life, alleges his wife in a lawsuit. Anne Carradine is suing MK2 Productions, the film company ...   read more

Until recently, U.S. Attorneys were permitted to approve their own travel expenses, leaving little oversight for how taxpayer dollars were being spent. The Obama administration changed this policy in March by now requiring the director or deputy d...   read more

In the film Forrest Gump (and the novel by Winston Groom), Forrest starts a shrimping business in the small Alabama fishing town of Bayou La Batre. Bayou La Batre is a real place, and it is now struggling to survive in the wake of the gulf oil spi...   read more

Soldiers returning home from Afghanistan with neurological problems may not be victims of just traumatic brain injury stemming from battles. Scientists with the U.S. Navy have speculated that toxic sand also may be damaging the nervous systems of ...   read more

Insurance companies have been raising premiums by an average of 20% on individual health plans, according to The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.   A new report shows that more than 75% of those surveyed who bought their own health insurance e...   read more

Although President Barack Obama has not officially nominated an ambassador to the Czech Republic, rumors are heavy in Prague that the post will go to White House ethics lawyer Norman Eisen. Eisen has no diplomatic experience to speak of, but he do...   read more

Pamela S. Hyde was sworn in as administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on December 7, 2009, after spending 30 years managing and consulting for government and non-profit operations that handled mental health ...   read more

Everything seems to go up in price these days—food, clothing, gasoline, even government secrets. A new report from an obscure federal operation (the Information Security Oversight Office) says Washington is now spending at least $9.93 billion to k...   read more

BP has conducted numerous controlled burns on the ocean surface to eliminate some of the oil collecting in the Gulf of Mexico. But in the process, the company is also burning alive endangered sea turtles caught in the areas set aflame, according t...   read more

A career employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Michael Walcoff has served as Acting Under Secretary for Benefits since January 4, 2010, and, according to some VA observers, could become the permanent head of the Veterans Benefits Ad...   read more

Oil company Syncrude Canada has been found guilty by a Canadian court of killing 1,600 ducks two years ago by allowing the birds to land on a toxic pond filled with oilsands waste in April 2008. A judge determined Syncrude was liable for the death...   read more