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

Tracing the December cyber attacks on Google and other American companies back to two Chinese schools has expanded rather than narrowed the list of possible culprits behind the hacking. Initial conclusions pointed the finger at the Beijing governm...   read more

Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration’s top environmental official, has made it clear she thinks bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used to make plastic products, is a dangerous threat to the public. And yet after chemical industry lobbyis...   read more

For years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the media reported U.S. casualty figures released by the Department of Defense—which regularly excluded thousands of Americans from the publicized totals. Even though they were often engaged in dan...   read more

The reason why Anthem Blue Cross of California wanted to hike its insurance rates by 39% was because the insurer says it suffered a loss of business last year, and was further hampered by the bad economy. Not so. According to a congressional revie...   read more

Handguns, rifles, shotguns, even semi-automatic weapons will be allowed in national parks as of February 22, as long as visitors are compliant with state law and other rules. The change has sparked concerns among current and former employees of th...   read more

Customers of Bank of America are claiming the bank charges $8.99 a month for identity-theft protection and credit monitoring without authorization. Lead plaintiff Steven Chavez says in his class action lawsuit that BofA hit him with monthly costs ...   read more

Corporations wondering how to take advantage of their newfound power following the Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court can turn to K&L Gates, one of Washington, DC’s biggest lobbying firms. In the wake of the high court’s decision to ...   read more

Researchers in France may have discovered a potential new source of energy from plants. By inserting a specially designed biofuel cell into a cactus, experts at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal were able to power the cell from the glucose and o...   read more

Americans on Medicaid are caught between the federal government, which wants to add 15 million more people to the medical insurance program, and state governments that can’t afford coverage for existing patients. With budget deficits ballooning, s...   read more

Utah State Senator Mark Madsen (R) doesn’t see anything wrong with his idea to honor John Browning, a pioneer in firearms manufacturing, on the same day celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., who was gunned down by an assassin. Madsen and his support...   read more

Taking the secure out of security, federal officers working for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lost 289 firearms over a three-year period. An investigation by DHS’ inspector general found that 243 of those firearms were lost by two agen...   read more

Germans really like their peace and quiet. In a country with an official quiet time at night and all day on Sundays, noisy children have been the source of hundreds of complaints each year from people living near kindergartens and children’s playg...   read more

Leaving education in the hands of the government has resulted in rising costs and flat-lining tests scores, notes Fox News television correspondent John Stossel, who wants to give parents the choice of sending their kids to private schools.   He...   read more

School officials in Pennsylvania are being sued by parents for spying on their children through the use of laptops equipped with webcams. The Lower Merion School District issued the computers to 1,800 high school students so they would have “24/7 ...   read more

In an ominous sign for the upcoming census, the federal government last year wasted millions of dollars training temporary employees who never did any work for the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency in charge of carrying out the nation’s decennial hea...   read more

In an effort to reduce unnecessary exposure to radiation, the Food and Drug Administration is developing new guidelines for the medical industry to follow for certain kinds of tests. The rules will govern the use of three types of medical imaging ...   read more