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

More than 500 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have reported illnesses that they blame on the open-pit burning of toxic waste by the military and defense contractors. The numbers were compiled by Disabled American Veterans, a nationa...   read more

Henry Watkins “Hank” Skinner is scheduled to be executed on March 24 in Texas for the New Year’s Eve 1993 murders of his girlfriend and her two grown sons. But Northwestern University Journalism School’s Medill Innocence Project contends there are...   read more

Calling the current state of the housing industry a “construction depression,” the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has released another sobering set of statistics showing how bad things are for the economy. Construction, one of th...   read more

Warlocks, the jamming technology used by the U.S. military to thwart roadside bombs in Afghanistan, fell into the hands of the Taliban more than two years ago, according to an Army intelligence document obtained by WikiLeaks. The equipment may hav...   read more

Built to draw attention to the problem of plastic pollution, the 60-foot sailboat Plastiki set sail Saturday on an 11,000-mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. The unusual boat was built almost entirely out of plastic, including 12,...   read more

The Federal Reserve has now lost two legal decisions in its effort to prevent the release of records showing which banks borrowed from the national bank’s discount window during the financial crisis of 2008. Bloomberg News and Fox Business Network...   read more

If the successful development of an independent, effective and trustworthy police force in Afghanistan is key to the U.S. pulling out of the country, American troops have a long wait ahead of them. An investigation by ProPublica and Newsweek has r...   read more

For those selling illegal narcotics and in need of spiritual protection, there is Jesús Malverde. Considered the patron saint of drug traffickers in Mexico, Malverde was said to be a construction or railroad worker who lived in the late 19th and e...   read more

Using data filed with the Federal Election Commission, Adam Bonica at Ideological Cartography has charted patterns that claim to show where certain occupations fall within the left-right political dynamic. Campaign donations of $250 or greater req...   read more

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft will continue to be vulnerable to lawsuits directed at him for his alleged misuse of the material witness statute that involved arresting Arabs and Muslims after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The Ninth...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has convinced Wachovia bank to pay the government $160 million for allowing its foreign exchange houses in Mexico to launder drug money.   Wachovia, now owned by Wells Fargo, admitted to permitting $110 million to ...   read more

U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal has talked the talk since taking over the military operation in Afghanistan, but can he walk the walk? With thousands of Afghan civilians having died over the years, the U.S. impressed upon McChrystal when he t...   read more

In a story about ongoing computer problems at the Secret Service, ABC News remarked that the agency lagged behind the rest of the federal government, which had modernized its computer systems. On the contrary, the Secret Service is not alone, and,...   read more

Oil company Stanley Energy wants to drill for petroleum in Bridger-Teton National Forest, located in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Having lost the leases it gained from the Bush administration in 2005 and 2006, Stanley Energy is now ...   read more

Former political mistress Rielle Hunter and ex-model Irina Krupnik are not happy about their public photos. Hunter, who had an affair with Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, posed for photos accompanying her interview with GQ, and she...   read more

With so much news about homosexual Catholic priests molesting young boys, it is worth noting that some priests who break their vows still go in for heterosexual sex, a fact that brought great trauma to one parishioner in Georgia when he and his ch...   read more