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

Large manufacturing companies that issue loans, like General Electric, are seeking exemptions from a new federal law regulating the financial industry, even though these businesses issue billions in loans and other financing.   With the help of ...   read more

Despite fighting in the same wars, troops from the United Kingdom have suffered far fewer cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than their counterparts in the United States. A British study has determined that about 4% of soldiers returni...   read more

When Norway leases its offshore territory to oil companies, the government receives more than 75% of the revenues. The United States, however, takes in less than 20%, making coastal petroleum opportunities a fantastic bargain for the industry. ...   read more

President Barack Obama has embraced flawed technology for his new missile defense plan to protect the United States from attack, say two scientific experts who reviewed testing data released by the Department of Defense.   Theodore Postol, a for...   read more

American troops are dying faster, and younger, than ever in Afghanistan. The official death toll in the war for the United States recently passed 1,000, following a suicide bombing in Kabul that killed five service personnel.   It took the U.S. ...   read more

In need of new revenue sources to pay for education and healthy eating programs for children, local and state politicians are setting their sights on taxing soft drinks.   In Washington, DC, local politicians are considering a plan to impose a 1...   read more

For decades the United States and Mexico have been the closest of trading partners. Yet a recent trade dispute has created a rift between the two neighbors. The issue began in 2007 when the United States began a pilot program allowing Mexican truc...   read more

What’s worse: a religious conservative lying about the importance of sexual abstinence, or a liberal lying about his war record? Time will only tell for the culprits, although immediate repercussions have already been felt for one politician, and ...   read more

Less than 1% of all lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives manage to support their re-election campaigns with donations mostly from small contributors (defined as those who give $200 or less). Three representatives, in fact, is the total: ...   read more

Every major intelligence agency in the U.S. government contributed in some way to the blunders that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria to nearly blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day last year.   An investigation into th...   read more

Continuing a recent trend of lessoning harsh sentences for juvenile offenders, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that states cannot lock away for the rest of their lives young criminals who have not committed murder.   Justice...   read more

Having its oil platform blow up and release millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico was not enough to dissuade Transocean Ltd, owner of the Deepwater Horizon, from meeting with shareholders to inform them that a $1 billion payout in div...   read more

While not openly criticizing the choice, a group of cancer prevention organizations has pointed out some unflattering details about President Barack Obama’s choice to run the National Cancer Institute (NCI).   Harold Varmus, who was awarded the ...   read more

Once upon a time, 74 years ago to be precise, the instructions accompanying the 1040 tax form were only two pages in length. Today, those same instructions have turned into a book that’s 174 pages long, and counting.   The National Taxpayers Uni...   read more

While homosexuals in the United States and some European countries continue to fight for the right to marry, some heterosexual couples want only to be in a civil union and have no interest in marriage.   In France, 95% of couples joining in tha...   read more

The chemical lobby in Louisiana has declared war on Tulane University’s environmental law program, long the bane of existence for corporate polluters.   As part of a multi-pronged strategy, the Louisiana Chemical Association is urging all of its...   read more