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

Once General Motors files for bankruptcy on Monday, the U.S. government will step in and become the largest shareholder of the once-vaunted auto manufacturer. The Department of the Treasury will purchase a 72.5% stake in GM, and federal officials ...   read more

After spending billions of dollars to create the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons, the government’s top scientific minds apparently forgot one very important task: Write down the instructions for how to make a nuclear weapon explode. Such is ...   read more

Long after its military wreaked havoc on the Vietnam countryside with Agent Orange and other defoliants, the U.S. government has decided to contribute a larger share to help clean up the damage from the Vietnam War. President Barack Obama recently...   read more

The television network Alhurra, created by the U.S. government to compete with the popular Arab-language Al Jazeera network in the Middle East, has turned into a money pit that’s getting killed in the ratings. This according to the largest public ...   read more

President Barack Obama’s top economic advisor has been accused of taking kickbacks from some of the nation’s biggest banks. Writing on AlterNet, Mark Ames reports that a little-known startup company, Revolution Money, received a $42 million invest...   read more

While time will tell just how much “change” Barack Obama brings to the ways of Washington, one money-driven tradition is still very much staying the course under the new president. Just as his predecessors have done, Obama is rewarding big-time fu...   read more

Mona Lisa would be right at home in the DMV these days. In an effort to combat identity theft, some motor vehicle departments are banning smiles from driver license photos. It’s all part of new technology being employed that allows officials to co...   read more

An investigation by the advocacy group Common Cause has determined that members of a key House defense subcommittee in 2008 allocated more than $350 million in military contracts to companies that had contributed handsomely to congressional repres...   read more

Today marks Day 3 of a four-day television marathon hosted by President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, surpassing anything the loquacious leader has ever done before. Chávez first went on the air this week on Thursday to commemorate the 10th anniversar...   read more

“Buyer beware” may become the new catchphrase for the sperm bank industry in the wake of a potentially landmark legal case now moving ahead in federal court. The lawsuit was brought by a 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl, Brittany Donovan, against the...   read more

In another sign that the United States intends to remain heavily involved in Pakistan for years to come, the Obama administration is seeking $736 million to build a new super-embassy in Islamabad—which rivals the cost of a similar diplomatic compo...   read more

Is this really what the Founding Fathers had in mind? Supreme Court justices remaining on the bench well into their golden years? Serving for a quarter of a century? Linda Greenhouse, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, argue...   read more

With the Great Depression having resurfaced in so many accounts during the current economic distress, it comes as no surprise that the FBI would choose now to release documents about the 1930s’ most infamous couple: Bonnie and Clyde. The decision ...   read more

“These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency,” says former U.S. Army Major General Antonio Taguba, in reference to the thousands of detainee photos that President Barack Obama has refused to release. In an interview with the Daily...   read more

It is possible for humans and nature to get along, according to the United Nations, and to prove it, the world body has been designating those areas where harmony indeed reigns. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...   read more

Pakistan’s poorly trained military is attacking cities with heavy artillery and firing capriciously to drive insurgents out, while fighter jets and helicopter gun ships fire hundreds of missiles into unsuspecting residential areas. “Imagine the ca...   read more