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

Sexually-violent predators can remain held in prison after serving their sentences if the government provides “clear and convincing” evidence that the individuals remain a threat to society, according to a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. ...   read more

Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Department of Justice is considering a lawsuit to stop the new immigration law in Arizona from going into effect. Such a move, though, might prove awkward unless the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Co...   read more

Voters in Nevada will have to leave their chicken suits at home when they go to the polls this year. Elections officials decided to ban such attire to prevent opponents of Republican Sue Lowden from making fun of her recent fowl remark about healt...   read more

From its manufacture to its mission, the X-37B space plane is shrouded in mystery. Built by Boeing’s Phantom Works group for the U.S. Air Force, the unmanned, robotic spacecraft is currently orbiting the earth on a classified mission as it conduct...   read more

Wealth inequality between white and black Americans has continued to widen since the 1980s. The Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University examined economic data gathered from a group of 2,000 families from 1984-2007 and conclude...   read more

An airport security program designed to detect terrorists allowed more than a dozen suspects to board U.S. flights. An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the Transportation Security Administration’s Screening Passenge...   read more

BP’s ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico could be spewing nearly 20 times more petroleum into the ocean than the company—with the Obama administration’s complicity—has claimed. Since the April 20 accident that caused the Deepwate...   read more

Seeking to limit the federal government’s application of the Endangered Species Act, the National Association of Home Builders has filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior. The developers group contends that the Interior Department ...   read more

Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) wanted so badly to expand the border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, he attached his proposal to an effort opening up a secretive procedure in the Senate—and in the process killed it.   “Secret ...   read more

Called the “ultimate smoke-filled back room,” the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is not the innocuous political body it appears to be. A professional organization that counts thousands of state legislators as its members, ALEC has be...   read more

To find out how much damage the Deepwater Horizon accident has caused the environment, experts are collecting water samples from the Gulf of Mexico for testing. But the federal government is requiring these samples be tested at one laboratory (TD...   read more

No stranger to controversy, Dennis Blair wracked up plenty of trouble that ultimately cost him his post as director of national intelligence after only 16 months on the job.   Blair arrived as someone known to raise eyebrows. The former U.S. Nav...   read more

Constituents of U.S. Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) shouldn’t expect him to understand their frustration over ATM-related fees. Nelson has never used an automated teller machine. Ever.   “I’ve never used an ATM, so I don’t know what the fees ar...   read more

A federally unregulated industrial chemical considered by consumer advocates to be dangerous to human health has been found in 90% of canned foods sold in the United States. A study by the National Work Group for Safe Markets randomly examined 50 ...   read more

As heroics go, what First Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing did for the Union army during the Civil War was nothing short of pivotal. In charge of a battery in the 4th U.S. Artillery, Cushing found himself commanding about 110 men who had to guard Cemeter...   read more

Scientists fear the Obama administration either doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know how much damage the Deepwater Horizon accident has caused the Gulf of Mexico. Experts are growing increasingly frustrated with how little scientific information h...   read more