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

Despite representing districts where at least one-in-four constituents lack health insurance, 14 members of Congress plan to oppose the health care reform bill in the House. The group is dominated by Republican lawmakers from Florida and Texas, so...   read more

In an industry where rescission—scheming to cancel the coverage of the seriously ill—is commonplace, Fortis/Assurant Health managed to do something other insurance companies hadn’t: specifically target people with HIV. Following a South Carolina...   read more

Next to President Barack Obama, there may not be a bigger basketball fan in the current administration than Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. But education comes first for the former college and professional player who says the NCAA should ban c...   read more

JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank find themselves facing lawsuits on both sides of the Atlantic over their financial strategies that helped cripple the financial industry in the United States and Italy.   In San Francisco, the local Federal Home ...   read more

Funding for special education isn’t considered special by many school districts in New Jersey, which have redirected millions of dollars to other, general education programs. An investigation by the Asbury Park Press discovered school districts in...   read more

Despite public assurances from President Hamid Karzai that it would not become law, a blanket amnesty for all war crimes committed in Afghanistan prior to 2001 has indeed gone into effect.   Adopted by parliament in 2007, the National Stability ...   read more

The United States military may be one of the finest in the world, but it’s not very efficient when it comes to buying weapons. A study of the 33 leading armed nations conducted by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. found the U.S. tied with Austral...   read more

Even with the tremendous sums spent on health care and its advances in medicine, the United States is more dangerous for women giving birth than dozens of other countries. A new report published by Amnesty International says that more than two wom...   read more

Eduardo M. Ochoa, a top administrator at Sonoma State University in California, was selected on February 23, 2010, by President Barack Obama to run the Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education, which administers most of the fede...   read more

Wary of the McCarthyism-like rhetoric leveled by Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, on the Obama administration for expressing concern about the civil liberties of suspected terrorists, Washington lawyer Lanny Davis says it’s time to bring the Pri...   read more

Legislation being fast-tracked through the U.S. Senate has been labeled a setback for protections guarding government employees who expose wrongdoing in the FBI and other national security operations.   According to the National Whistleblowers C...   read more

President Barack Obama is threatening to veto legislation that funds intelligence agencies unless Congress backs off on several fronts to expand oversight of the intelligence community.   For starters, lawmakers want to give the Government Accou...   read more

Denied the chance to bid on a lucrative security contract to train Afghanistan’s new police force, DynCorp International managed to convince the Government Accountability Office to halt the company’s rival—Xe (formerly Blackwater)—from moving forw...   read more

Suffering from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor, Joseph Casias, 29, took the advice of his doctor and started using marijuana for medicinal purposes, which is permitted under state law in Michigan after it was approved by voters in 2008....   read more

The 21st century equivalent of a chicken-in-every-pot, the Federal Communications Commission’s is spearheading President Barack Obama’s proposal to make high-speed Internet service available to all Americans. The FCC unveiled its ambitious plan th...   read more

Faulty, and in some cases falsified, forensic work by FBI experts has raised questions about the validity of 100 criminal cases in the District of Columbia since the mid-1970s.   A legal review was launched earlier this year after a DC court ove...   read more