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

Accounting errors by the IRS over a five-year period cost the federal government $63 million in unemployment insurance funds, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The foul-up began after an audit ...   read more

Consuming beef in the United States comes with the risk of ingesting toxins because of cracks in the federal government’s meat inspection system. In a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the inspector general said there is a “growi...   read more

Within three years, children born in the United Kingdom could have three biological parents, assuming the government goes along with an idea pushed by scientists to perform gene splicing to prevent serious health risks.   The concept has been de...   read more

Despite numerous warnings in recent years of growing white supremacist numbers in the U.S. military, the Defense Department waited until late in 2009 to quietly issue a directive ordering soldiers to refrain from participating in such activity on ...   read more

Relying on private companies to guard federal buildings has resulted in numerous breaches of security, according to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office. A new GAO report has called upon the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...   read more

American efforts to assassinate the controversial Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki will not be aided by the government of Yemen. Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen now living in Yemen, was recently added to a CIA hit list, but Yemeni officials have refused to...   read more

Problems continue to emerge for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) in the wake of the Upper Big Branch mining disaster in West Virginia. Despite having a former union official, Joe Main, running the MSHA, the agency allowed Upper Big...   read more

There is much the U.S. military and intelligence community don’t know about Afghanistan’s politics and culture, resulting in decisions that are born of ignorance and the product of suspect information from local sources with personal agendas. Beca...   read more

The U.S. Army has gotten out of paying lifetime benefits to wounded soldiers by fraudulently diagnosing them with “personality disorder” (PD), a pre-existing condition that trumps any injuries suffered from combat. Doing so has saved the Departmen...   read more

Afraid of violent consequences if they did not comply, most radio stations in Somalia have agreed to stop playing music—or even jingles—as ordered by Hizbul-Islam insurgents who believe the tunes are un-Islamic. Fourteen of the country’s 15 radio ...   read more

Spearheaded by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been creating local gardens across the United States and the globe and donating the food to pantries and soup kitchens. The effort began last year when Vil...   read more

State parks from one end of the United States to another face closure as a result of budget cuts imposed by lawmakers, prompting volunteers to step forward to keep some facilities open. In New York, Parks Commissioner Carol Ash said her agency is...   read more

If the nation’s largest corporations were inclined to fudge their tax returns, they would face pretty good odds (about 3-to-1) of getting away with it, since the IRS is now spending less time auditing such businesses. Syracuse University’s Transac...   read more

Appointments to the federal bench have been considerably more diverse during the first 14-months of President Barack Obama’s term when compared to the same time period for President George W. Bush. Whereas Bush’s nominations to districts courts an...   read more

Renaming Pakistan’s northernmost province has not gone down well with local residents who belong to the Hazara ethnic group. What was known by the British colonial name of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as decreed o...   read more

Legal powerhouse Bingham McCutchen is loading up on former federal regulators who failed to catch many of the highest profile Wall Street disasters in recent years. After hiring former chairman Christopher Cox and enforcement official Herbert Jani...   read more