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

George Washington was not only America’s first president, but possibly its richest, too. A calculation of the net worth of each U.S. president in 2010 dollars shows Washington would have had a personal net worth today of more than $500 million. ...   read more

Following previous investigations that questioned the agency’s ethical performance, a new inspector general report has revealed that employees of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Louisiana committed serious transgressions while overseeing ...   read more

Thanks to the new healthcare reform law, Americans will have the choice of keeping their children on their insurance plans until age 26—unless the policyholder happens to be in the military, where adult child coverage stops at 21, or 23 if the chi...   read more

Concerned over where the matter might lead, the U.S. Department of Justice is fighting a Freedom of Information Act request to release the names of more than 9,200 people who were denied pardons by President George W. Bush.   The Justice Departm...   read more

Service in the armed forces is no guarantee for legal immigrants to remain in the United States if they break the law. There are approximately 3,000 to 4,000 veterans awaiting deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is using a 19...   read more

Anger towards Congress has escalated into considerably more threats against senators and representatives. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer told Politico that threats were up 300% during the opening months of 2010.   Those receiving death ...   read more

Afghanistan now is not only the costliest of America’s two wars, but also the more demanding in terms of troops. The Department of Defense officially announced this week that more soldiers are currently serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, a first...   read more

Using a tactic he criticized when his predecessor employed it, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve “emergency” legislation to cover costs associated with disaster relief, assistance for Haiti and the military campaigns in Afghanis...   read more

Lance Orton and Duane Jackson, hailed as heroes by the New York media and President Barack Obama, were not the first ones to spot and call attention to the bomb-laden SUV parked in Times Square earlier this month. Even though Orton and Jackson hav...   read more

Federal law forbids felons convicted of violent crimes from buying guns—but not renting them at stores. Owners of gun stores are not required to perform background checks on customers who merely want to rent a firearm for use at the store’s gun ra...   read more

Twitter could soon become the ultimate fortune teller for movie success, and possibly even elections.   Two researchers at HP Labs examined nearly three million posts to Twitter, or tweets, from 1.2 million users for three months in 2009-2010 to...   read more

The Obama administration seems to have multiple definitions of “moratorium.” Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon accident occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama promised a cessation of new offshore oil drilling while the governmen...   read more

Wanting better protection for American soldiers from roadside bombs and other attacks, the U.S. military is rushing the delivery of special “mine-resistant, ambush-protected” (or MRAP) vehicles to Afghanistan. But some variations of the MRAP are s...   read more

One clear indication that the financial industry reform plan adopted by the Senate can’t be that tough is the reaction coming from Wall Street. A longtime investment banker anonymously told The New York Times that there was “a sigh of relief” from...   read more

Applying many of the perfumes, colognes and body sprays on the market today can mean subjecting oneself to a dozen different secret chemicals, some which can cause allergic reactions or disrupt human hormones.   A report by The Campaign for Safe...   read more

The mess that Wall Street made of itself two years ago wasn’t as complicated to understand as you might think, writes Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, a daily web television talk show.   A lot of the trouble was caused by side bets—high-sta...   read more