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

American Special Operations forces have been running a secret prison in Afghanistan, according to information gathered by the Red Cross. Known as the “Tor” or Black Jail by detainees, the facility is reportedly part of the U.S. military’s larger p...   read more

Leslie Sabo should have been awarded the military’s highest honor 40 years ago, after he was killed in action during the Vietnam War. But the Department of Defense’s bureaucracy lost sight of the paperwork, causing the matter to be forgotten until...   read more

With pre-existing conditions expected to become a thing of the past once the federal healthcare reform plan kicks in, the Families USA Foundation decided to issue a report showing how widespread a problem this has been for Americans.   The found...   read more

The United States has the political votes to join an international treaty banning land mines—an agreement first pushed by Washington more than 15 years ago—leaving it up to President Barack Obama to join in the effort. Sixty eight senators, repres...   read more

While the talk continues about throwing out incumbents from Congress during the 2010 election, challengers will be hard-pressed to bring about change in state legislatures.   A review of state legislative races in 2008 by the National Institute ...   read more

Many Americans may not feel rich these days, but the country nonetheless is swimming in wealth when it comes to retirement assets. According to an analysis by the Investment Company Institute, the U.S. had $16 trillion as of the end of 2009 in all...   read more

When the space shuttle Atlantis makes its final voyage on May 14, it will carry into space a symbol of a scientific hallmark from the 17th century. The symbol will be a tiny piece of Isaac Newton’s apple tree…the one that inspired the famed mathem...   read more

John D. Brewer was selected to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) after morale plummeted under the previous administrator. He took over as acting administrator on January 1, 2010, and as administrator on J...   read more

Despite what some are calling the worst ecological disaster in recent U.S. history, the much-criticized federal agency that oversees oil exploration has continued to exempt petroleum companies from having to perform in-depth environmental studies....   read more

In an attempt to demonstrate that terrorism can be thwarted without resorting to torture or endangering civil liberties, the American Security Project has issued a report claiming that most foiled plots since September 11, 2001, have come about fr...   read more

Seeking a compromise between the right and left, the Obama administration is making use of an old exception to the Miranda rule so that federal agents can interrogate terrorism suspects before informing them of their right to remain silent and see...   read more

The recent recession exacerbated the problem of Americans without health insurance, as rising unemployment forced many who were insured through their jobs to lose medical coverage. A study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows the per...   read more

Even food is used as a weapon in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.   Since Hamas came to power three years ago in the Gaza Strip, the government of Israel has maintained a strict blockade of goods from reaching Palestinians. The list of contrab...   read more

Three years after he was first appointed to serve on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), John D. Bates took over as the presiding judge. Bates has been a federal judge for almost 10 years, serving on the U.S. District Cou...   read more

Is anti-U.S. terrorism on the rise among Muslim Americans? That depends on how you look at the findings of a new RAND report.   On the one hand, there have been at least 46 cases of plots by “homegrown terrorists” broken up in the United States ...   read more

Offshore oil workers stand a higher risk of getting killed or injured on the job than their counterparts in Europe. This finding was uncovered among others in an investigation by The Wall Street Journal of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), wh...   read more