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

Government scientists are denying media access to necropsies being performed on dozens of dead sea turtles found washed up along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Thirty five young Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, an endangered species, have been discovered on ...   read more

Despite his declaration that the government needed to address the nation’s “troubling trend” with outbreaks of food poisoning, President Barack Obama took almost a year to appoint Elisabeth Hagen as head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foo...   read more

Some of the highest profile business disasters in recent history have been driven by greed, demonstrating how important it is to usher in a new era of government regulation, argues Robert Reich, formerly of the Clinton administration and now a pro...   read more

The U.S. Army’s timing could have been better, while saying nothing about its better judgment. Only hours after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was backing a lawsuit against defense contractor KBR Inc., the Army awarded the controversi...   read more

Much to the delight of environmentalists and to the chagrin of industry, a panel of experts has warned that cancer, the No. 2 killer of Americans, has been “grossly underestimated” when it comes to potential causes from everyday items and procedur...   read more

A special unit of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service has tracked down four immigrants accused of participating in one of the bloodiest episodes of Guatemala’s civil war. Agents working in ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Cri...   read more

Four journalists have been banned from covering military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay because they reported the name of a former soldier accused of abusing a detainee. The Defense Department said the media was asked at a recent hearing to identify ...   read more

You can’t really trust Democrats or Republicans when it comes to campaign finance reform, argues Jeff Patch, communications director for the Center for Competitive Politics.   Both liberals and conservatives, while in control of Congress, have d...   read more

Considered the lesser of two evils by some environmentalists, the spraying of chemical dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico to break up the giant oil slick comes with its own risks and uncertainties for the environment.   So far, BP and the federa...   read more

The maker of children’s Tylenol and other pediatric medicines has gotten into trouble with federal regulators for operating a plant where materials were contaminated with bacteria and that lacked sufficient quality controls. McNeil Consumer Health...   read more

Rather than inform the public about potentially dangerous substances buried in the ground outside a leading scientific laboratory, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in New Mexico deliberately took actions to avoid compliance with Freedom ...   read more

What ordinarily takes eight hours was done in only one when the world’s first robot-performed heart surgery took place last week in the United Kingdom. Kenneth Crocker, 70, had a catheter inserted into his body at Leicester’s Glenfield Hospital by...   read more

Two years after Congress passed legislation intended to spread subsidies among a wider array of farmers, new information shows large corporate farms are continuing to hog the majority of agricultural welfare.   Data compiled by the Environmental...   read more

Human rights activists are questioning the point of military tribunals for suspected terrorists if the likely result is that detainees, even if they are acquitted, will remain behind bars, potentially forever.   Amnesty International has reporte...   read more

Some of the top city officials in Arizona have come out in opposition to the state’s tough new immigration law and plan to fight the legislation in court.   The city councils of Tucson and Flagstaff have voted (5-1 and 5-0) to sue the state ove...   read more

Fishermen who agreed to help stem the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico were asked by the owner of the offshore platform, BP, to sign an agreement waiving their rights to sue the corporation. The company hired local fishermen to lay out oil booms...   read more