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

Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee has vetoed only six bills in his seven years in office, and until last week, the Legislature had never overridden a single one. But lawmakers were determined to overcome Bredesen’s objections when it ...   read more

The Federal Trade Commission last week sent a message to those who support illegal activities on the Internet that there’s a new sheriff in town. In a move deemed unprecedented by some Internet analysts, the FTC got a judge to order the shutdown o...   read more

Long overdue, the democratization of corporate board elections would serve as a check for both management and shareholders, argues Roger Lowenstein, director of the Sequoia Fund. Traditionally, shareholders have had virtually no influence on corpo...   read more

Montgomery County, Maryland, is the site of a fierce debate over whether a local government has the right to designate private property as “historic” against the will of the owner. The property in question is owned by Sherwood Duvall, 90, who ha...   read more

Determined to bring nature back into the urban environment, the city of Leeds in the United Kingdom sponsored a design competition to find new ways of creating habitat for birds and small animals. The winner of the competition devised towers made ...   read more

When President George W. Bush came up with his plan in 2003 to protect the nation’s key computer systems from cyber attacks, he called for collaborative efforts involving public-private partnerships and international organizations, all while prote...   read more

Drug abuse and mental illness are challenges officials face everywhere in the country, but for some states certain problems are more acute than others. Utah, for example, leads the United States in the rate of “serious psychological distress,” but...   read more

Five years ago the federal government gave American corporations a one-time tax holiday on profits made overseas so that they would invest the savings in the U.S. operations and create new jobs. A new study has found, however, that few companies u...   read more

If you’ve wondered how life would be different if John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election, here’s one example of McCain supporting a policy that Barack Obama opposes.   At the urging of President Obama, members of the U.S. Senate are ...   read more

Meriwether Lewis, one half of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition that mapped vast stretches of the unexplored American West in the early 1800s, was said to have committed suicide only a few years after completing his journey. But current descend...   read more

On November 12, 2008, in Chesapeake, Virginia, two Allied Terminals storage tanks collapsed, releasing two million gallons of liquid urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer into the surrounding residential area and seriously injuring two contractors work...   read more

Assuming the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki can maintain stability once the U.S. withdraws its forces next year, Iraq has ambitious plans for expanding oil and natural gas production, with the first big contracts to be due to be awar...   read more

Republicans and Democrats in Congress have joined consumer advocates in calling for the Obama administration to move quickly and close a loophole in federal law that bill collectors are exploiting to seize veterans benefits and Social Security pay...   read more

A member of a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping migrants survive their treks across the Arizona desert was convicted in federal court on Wednesday on charges of littering on public lands. Walt Staton faces up to one year in prison and...   read more

Cows could become a greater threat to global warming than cars or SUVs, scientists insist, which has prompted farmers in the U.S. and Europe to experiment with the diets of bovines. At issue is the tremendous amount of methane gas that cows expel ...   read more

Conservative writer and scholar Max Boot was not entirely displeased with President Barack Obama’s address on Wednesday in Egypt, pointing out several points in the speech that he supported. But Obama “twisted history” when it came to his discussi...   read more