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

Molycorp Minerals wants to get back into rare earth minerals to challenge China, which now controls 97% of the market.. But reopening its open-pit mine in Mountain Pass, California, could be challenging economically due to the costs and because ra...   read more

After four years of not having a permanent replacement, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is getting Donald M. Berwick, a renowned health expert who has championed improvements and safety in medical care as its administrator. When it comes to ...   read more

Former U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina has taken exception with the Senate’s recent decision to reject the imposition of a valued added tax (VAT). Hollings, a conservative Democrat, believes a VAT should be used to replace the corp...   read more

Upset over the military’s unwillingness to punish higher-ranking officers for alleged mistakes, the families of 22 U.S. personnel killed in action in Afghanistan are demanding the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps provide more accountability for th...   read more

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Robin Chaurasiya will not become a symbol for a more tolerant military, as she had hoped. The openly-gay officer is being discharged (honorably) following a superior’s earlier pronouncement that Chaurasiya would not be ki...   read more

Schools should be doing a better job of feeding America’s youth in order to cut down on their growing rates of obesity, according to a coalition of retired military commanders. Mission: Readiness, a non-profit formed by 130 retired generals, admir...   read more

Spencer Barasch could have done something years ago about the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme, but didn’t. Four times red flags went up in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth, Texas, office about Stanford, who has been accused of craft...   read more

A Pennsylvania judge, Eduardo C. Robreno, will have to decide whether illegal seizures of virtual property in an online role-playing game can be addressed in a real courtroom. Four players of Second Life have sued the game’s creator, Linden Lab, f...   read more

American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have been running into a new threat from the Taliban: snipers. For much of the conflict, troops have had more to fear from roadside bombs than being shot, thanks to the poor marksmanship of Taliban fighter...   read more

While FBI agents quietly tracked the movements of terrorists planning to bomb the New York City subway system last year, local police conversed with an Islamic religious leader who had ties with the plotters—and in the process inadvertently helped...   read more

No matter how divergent two people can be in terms of background or beliefs, there’s always some common ground to be found. Take for instance American conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Iranian Muslim cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi—both ...   read more

Getting good grades in college is not as challenging as it once was, especially for students attending private institutions of higher learning. After charting 50 years worth of grade point averages, researchers Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher He...   read more

Charles Jumet, former vice president of Ports Engineering Consultants Corp. in Virginia, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for bribing officials in Panama with $200,000 during the late 1990s. The U.S. Department of Justice anno...   read more

America’s popularity throughout the world has risen over the past year, according to the BBC’s World Service Poll. While not the most popular nation on the block, the United States has nonetheless lowered its negative ratings by nine points, and...   read more

One of the world’s largest offshore drillers, Houston-based Pride International, has been accused of bribing governments all over the world, according to a shareholder lawsuit. The corporation announced on February 16 that it was creating a $56 mi...   read more

Army Specialist Marc Hall will not undergo a court martial trial, and instead has been released from his military service. Hall, a.k.a. hip hop artist Marc Watercus, was arrested in December after he refused to be sent back to Iraq and produced a ...   read more