According to aides who were present when Trump discussed the issue, but who choose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, Trump said he was sick of Vance and wanted to fire him. “I wanted him to be my attack dog,” said Trump, “but he appears foolish on television. He dropped the college football trophy. He met with Pope Francis and the next day the pope died. Vance is toxic, and I don’t want him to come near me. He just doesn’t look as good on television as I thought he would.”   read more

Imagine if Alaska, the largest state in the union, completely disappeared from the earth. That’s roughly what happened to an enormous amount of ice in the Arctic over just four years, NASA scientists concluded, after conducting the first comprehen...   read more

For Umar Abdulayev the only thing worse than spending seven years at Guantánamo Bay is going home to Tajikistan, which is why the detainee prefers to stay behind bars. The Bush and Obama administrations accused Abdulayev of having connections with...   read more

It would appear that the Republican Party has alienated yet another group of voters: scientists. A recent survey conducted by The Pew Research Center for People & the Press found only 6% of more than 2,500 scientists polled identified themselves a...   read more

It’s a wonder there’s anything left at all of historic Babylon, after more than a century of ruinous encroachment on the ancient city’s remains by Europeans, Iraqis, and American soldiers and contractors.   The center of the Babylonian Dynasty, ...   read more

Amid accusations that the CIA has repeatedly lied to Congress since 2001, President Barack Obama is threatening to veto legislation that would force the White House to disclose to Congress internal documents pertaining to covert operations. The bi...   read more

Using his own experience as an Army veteran, Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) is taking up the charge to revoke the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, arguing that soldiers don’t care whether someone is gay or straight as long as everyone sticks tog...   read more

According to the Department of Defense, Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil needs to be watched because he is a potential terrorist threat, even after being released from his six-year stint at Guantánamo Bay. But high-level officials in Afghanistan disagree...   read more

It used to be an unwritten rule at Yankee stadium that when “God Bless America” was played during the seventh-inning stretch, fans were supposed to remain still in honor of the patriotic song. But that supposedly will not be the case any longer af...   read more

Despite recent losses by unions in the auto industry and rising debate among unions over reform in the health care industry, there are definite signs of success for unions in the meat packing industry. The 17-year uphill struggle to unionize emplo...   read more

Tamarah Grimes, a Justice Department employee who accused Republican prosecutors of misconduct in the case against former Democratic Governor Donald Siegelman of Alabama, was fired last month for what she says was retaliation for her actions bac...   read more

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Obama administration intends to shake up the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the agency in charge of providing security for all federal government buildings, after learning how easy it is to carry bomb-ma...   read more

Among the most overlooked victims of the nation’s dual wars have been the children of military personnel, who it turns out are more than ever in need of mental health services. Statistics compiled by the Defense Department reveal that the number o...   read more

Attorneys at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been shaking their heads over President Barack Obama’s choice of Ignacia Moreno to lead the Department of Justice’s environment division.   An investigation by ProPublica found six...   read more

Wanted: Female (preferable) willing to live in cave, cast spells, and cackle on command. That’s what the British tourist site Wookey Hole is looking for, now that its “witch” has retired.   Wookey officials are willing to pay £50,000 a year for ...   read more

Operators of one of the largest coal-burning plants in Iowa have been manipulating air pollution findings by changing the type of coal burned at critical times. Whenever the wind shifts direction near the Grain Processing Corp. facility in Muscati...   read more

A major fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Laurie S. Fulton, the new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, has spent most of her career in Washington, DC, first in the U.S. Senate, where she met her first husband, Tom Daschle, and later as a partner in ...   read more