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

An Ethiopian immigrant who came to the United States at the age of seventeen with $150 in his pocket, Daniel W. Yohannes worked his way through school, became a wealthy bank executive. and was sworn in as the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corpor...   read more

Longtime railroad union attorney Daniel R. Elliott III was the focus of controversy before he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, thanks to his former boss at the United Transportation Union (UTU), the nation’s largest rail union. Elliott was sworn ...   read more

A veteran of Washington, DC, who has served in the Department of Transportation (DOT) and as a Senate aide, David T. Matsuda brings two decades of experience to his new position of leading the Maritime Administration (MARAD).   A native of Apple...   read more

The American ambassadorship to Luxembourg has long been reserved as a post for rewarding political friends and benefactors of presidents. In the last 50 years, only three out of 21 U.S. ambassadors to the tiny European country have been career dip...   read more

The Fort Hood shooter talked about killing U.S. soldiers almost a year before the attack that left 13 people dead. In an interview televised by the Al-Jazeera television network, New Mexico-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said he received an em...   read more

Claiming it needed to train its managers about a new labor contract with air traffic controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spent $5 million this month on three one- week “conferences” in Atlanta. But an investigation by ABC News r...   read more

Picking up where the Bush administration left off, the Department of Energy under President Barack Obama is preparing to make more than $18 billion available to the nuclear power industry for building new reactors. The loan guarantees were approve...   read more

One need not be a practicing witch or warlock to run the risk of being charged with sorcery in Saudi Arabia. Case in point: Ali Hussain Sibat, a Lebanese television host who occasionally offered predictions on his show.   In May, Sibat traveled ...   read more

America has become a “warfare state,” spending more on its military than state or local governments do to provide for their citizens’ welfare, according to former journalist Sherwood Ross. Each year, Department of Defense expenditures exceed that ...   read more

Bill O’Reilly and some conservative advocacy groups have claimed that “secular progressives” are staging a “War on Christmas” because they choose to say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” The American Family Association has even launch...   read more

Goldman Sachs made a record profit of $11.6 billion in 2007, and could eclipse that total by the end of this year. The firm received substantial assistance last year from Washington’s Wall Street bailout program, and soon it will move into a brand...   read more

Private sector executives have been taking a lot of heat for their lucrative salaries, but the world of nonprofits has not been immune from such excesses.   Last year, while corporate executives’ salaries fell an average of 9%, nonprofit leaders...   read more

With her brother, Mark Gray, in need of a kidney transplant, Phyllis Delaney of Festus, Missouri, says she made arrangements to donate one of her own, including getting permission from her employer to miss work. But Signature Healthcare Foundation...   read more

While much of this year brought grim news about economic retraction and job loss for most of the world, botanists enjoyed a banner year. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the United Kingdom proudly announced on Tuesday that nearly 300 new plant s...   read more

If Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber freed because he’s dying of cancer, was merely a low-level airline employee, then how did he come into possession of £1.8 million ($2.9 million) in a Swiss bank account? The revelation that...   read more

Environmentalists don’t know whether to applaud or scream at U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) proposal to create two new national monuments in the Mojave Desert. On the one hand, the legislation would preserve a million acres of desert terra...   read more