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

Officials in Pakistan tried downplaying a suicide attack last Thursday that targeted employees of the country’s nuclear weapons program. The attack involved a single bomber riding atop an explosives-packed motorcycle that rammed into a bus carryin...   read more

As the fastest growing segment of the food industry, organic products now constitute a $23 billion a year market, thanks to half of the adult U.S. population buying organic some of or all the time. But flip-flopping by the federal government is st...   read more

It remains to be seen if the pharmaceutical industry’s offer to provide discounts valued at $80 billion over the next 10 years will really produce savings, considering drug manufacturers may actually make money from their proposal.   A big part...   read more

Rocco Landesman, the man whom President Barack Obama hopes can revive the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), has had an eclectic career. In addition to producing plays and musicals on Broadway, Landesman has owned race horses and several minor...   read more

One of Barack Obama’s most important victories during his run for the Democratic nomination in 2008 came in South Carolina, where he easily defeated rival Hillary Clinton. Of the many local officials who backed Obama over Clinton, Inez Moore Tenen...   read more

The Mississippi town of Philadelphia has long been branded as a place synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan and racist attitudes, ever since three Freedom Riders were murdered there,in1964. But Friday marked a new day for the town, which now has its fi...   read more

While Congress oversaw ballooning federal deficits this decade, lawmakers also ramped up their expenses on overseas travel, the Wall Street Journal found. A review of congressional records revealed spending on foreign junkets by members of the Hou...   read more

If public officials are to be expected to cooperate with federal investigations, their testimony to government lawyers must be kept confidential, says the Obama administration. This argument is the basis for the Justice Department’s opposition to ...   read more

Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health reform czar, knows a thing or two (or four) about the dark underbelly of the medical industry, after serving on the boards of numerous companies accused of illegal activities. Following her resign...   read more

Violations of federal election law are likely to go unpunished these days, thanks to the partisan deadlock that’s hampering the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Divided 3-3 between Democratic and Republican appointees, the FEC has routinely fail...   read more

Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge not to hold CIA agents accountable for their participation in the torture of suspected terrorists, the Justice Department has quietly continued a grand jury investigation begun during President George W. Bus...   read more

Picking up where the Bush administration left off, U.S. officials have been claiming in recent months that Iran has been helping the Taliban in Afghanistan—an assertion not backed up by hard evidence and downplayed by others fighting the war.   ...   read more

As part of the government’s effort to create universal health care, Americans who don’t purchase medical insurance coverage would be fined more than $1,000 under a plan currently in the U.S. Senate. Similar to laws requiring motorists to carry aut...   read more

Federal law enforcement officials warned earlier this year that the election of the nation’s first African-American president might result in a rise of violent behavior by white supremacists. Accounts compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center in...   read more

In addition to facing multiple class action lawsuits by U.S. soldiers over its open pit burning of garbage in Iraq and Afghanistan, defense contractor KBR Inc. is being sued by National Guardsmen from around the country for allegedly causing their...   read more

Unlike most people his age who have spent the past seven years growing up and going to school, Mohamed el-Gharani endured the majority of his time as a teenager at Guantánamo Bay. Perhaps the youngest of all the detainees held at the U.S. prison, ...   read more