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

Rekindling arguments that the United States is waging a Christian war against the Islamic world, a weapons manufacturer has been caught producing rifle sights for the U.S. military that have codes referencing Bible passages. The New Testament-insc...   read more

Everything has got to go! The great space shuttle fire sale has begun, and NASA is slashing prices to move its inventory. For only $28.8 million, the space shuttle Atlantis or Endeavor can be yours. Marked down from an original MSRP of $42 million...   read more

In the post-Sept. 11 fear that gripped Washington early last decade, the FBI broke the law by collecting phone records without first obtaining warrants or even approval from senior officials. When superiors did learn of the illegal communications ...   read more

Corruption is a way of life in Afghanistan, and Afghans are not happy about it. A survey conducted by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime found that more than half of the population had to pay bribes to a public official last year, and ne...   read more

Beginning a year ago, CrossRoads United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, began feeding the homeless on Saturdays as part of a new outreach program. Local officials complained about CrossRoads’ efforts, saying the Prodigal’s Home program viola...   read more

Critics of American foreign policy towards Haiti have had a hard time swallowing the selection of former President George W. Bush as co-chair of the United States’ relief efforts. They point out that it was during the Bush administration, in Feb...   read more

The FBI continues to keep secret hundreds of thousands of pages of documents stemming from the Civil Rights Era, including information related to the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Records not released include details about a Ku ...   read more

Iran, selected to host the 2nd Annual Islamic Solidarity Games, insisted that maps promoting the sporting event show the Persian Gulf with that very name. But Arab participants insisted on “Arabian Gulf” for the name of the strategic waterway tha...   read more

President Obama has turned to a veteran civil rights attorney, Jacqueline A. Berrien, to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent agency responsible for eliminating all forms of discrimination in the workplace. Although she...   read more

Mr. Merdle and Mr. Potter would be right at home today confronting the roiling contempt many Americans hold for bankers and financial schemers. More than 150 years ago, Charles Dickens created the character of Mr. Merdle in the serial novel Little...   read more

In an attempt to make operations more efficient, the IRS has turned responsibility for detecting fraudulent tax refund claims over to an office filled with inexperienced employees. A report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General of Tax Adm...   read more

Tobacco companies have been secretly meeting with the Department of Justice to convince government lawyers to settle the landmark lawsuit first brought against the industry in the 1990s. According to the Associated Press, lawyers for Philip Morris...   read more

World Vision, an international Christian humanitarian organization, does not hide its employment policy. To work for the billion-dollar charity, except on a temporary basis, one must be a Christian. This religious-based hiring preference has drawn...   read more

If Haitians displaced by the earthquake are willing to try life on a different continent, there is a new home awaiting them in Senegal. President Abdoulaye Wade has offered to give Haitians land in his African nation, after first promising to dona...   read more

For the first time in legislative history, a group of lawmakers in the U.S. have approved a bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by adults. By a 4-3 vote, the California Legislature’s Assembly Public Safety Committee approved AB 390, ...   read more

Americans are waiting longer than ever to try matrimony for the first time. Statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau show the medina age of men who have their first wedding is now 28.1 years old, and for women it’s 25.9. In both cases, the ag...   read more