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

Almost two weeks after Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) publicly questioned its need for secrecy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released on Monday a list of 44 coal-fired power plant waste sites in 10 states that pose a “high hazard” risk t...   read more

Is the issue of why men don’t like to wear condoms worth almost half a million dollars in taxpayer money? That’s the question some government watchdogs are asking over the decision by the National Institutes of Health to pay Indiana University’s K...   read more

City officials in Toronto, Canada, are so big on pushing diversity that they doctored the cover photo for their summer events guide, digitally adding the image of an African American man to what appears to be a Latino family. None of the people in...   read more

President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens was born in New York City and raised in Connecticut. After graduating from University of Colorado at Boulder, Stevens joined California’s World Savings Bank i...   read more

On April 29, 2009, the Senate confirmed transportation industry insider Peter H. Appel to be the next administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the Department of Transportation. Born in 1964, Appel earned his bachel...   read more

A $75 billion plan to prevent millions of families from losing their homes has become bogged down as a result of mortgage lenders reacting too slowly to the crisis, leading some experts to wonder if banks are deliberately undermining President Bar...   read more

Mohamed Farah Aideed, the Somali warlord who became Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States in the early 1990s, received arms and other aid from one of Saudi Arabia’s leading charities, according to a recently discovered Defense Department intelli...   read more

When the federal government fired Franklin Kameny in 1957 for being a homosexual, it unknowingly launched the young astronomer into a new career as a leading gay rights activist. After losing his civilian job for the U.S. Army’s mapping service, K...   read more

Even after decades of public discourse on the inequality of the criminal justice system, the United States continues to punish minorities, especially African Americans, who are arrested at rates far higher than Caucasians who are arrested. A new s...   read more

It’s time to end the practice of pharmaceutical companies paying competitors to postpone the introduction of generic drugs into the market, says the new head of the Federal Trade Commission. For example, Bayer paid almost $400 million to Barr and ...   read more

President Barack Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to spread the wealth, and so far he’s doing just that, according to the non-partisan Tax Foundation. In its latest of a series of special reports on Obama’s fiscal policies, the foundation c...   read more

Between steady cost increases in the private health care market and a lack of willpower on the part of Congress with Medicare, it’s no wonder the United States is facing skyrocketing costs for its medical care. According to the Department of Healt...   read more

Some might call it politically ironic, while others just downright unfair, but Diane J. Humetewa is about to be out of a job. Humetewa became the first female Native American U.S. attorney in history during the Bush administration—the same adminis...   read more

In another demonstration of President Barack Obama’s preference for the tried-and-true ways of Washington, the new president has focused his domestic travel so far on those states that are likely to be battlegrounds in the 2012 election. Of the 16...   read more

Whoever heads the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is expected not to be shy about using the Endangered Species Act (ESA) so that plants and animals aren’t threatened by development. But President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the environment...   read more

After months of reviewing the cases of Guantánamo detainees, the Obama administration has reached the same conclusions as the Bush White House: Forget the courts (both military and civilian), forget Congress, and just keep suspected terrorists loc...   read more