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

Nominated on St. Patrick’s Day by President Barack Obama to be the next United States ambassador to Ireland, Dan Rooney is considered to be the most high-profile figure ever to represent the U.S. in Ireland, thanks to his ownership of the famed Pi...   read more

Scientists in the United States are discounting the widely believed theory that 65 million years ago dinosaurs were brought to extinction when an asteroid collided with the Earth. Recently, experts discovered that a few creatures survived for anot...   read more

The United States suffered 33 deaths at the hands of terrorists in 2008, none of which occurred at home. Americans killed were in Iraq (21), India (6), Afghanistan (4), Sudan (1) and Yemen (1).   While the United States often assumes it is the N...   read more

What America needs is another “Pecora Commission,” argues Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. Ferdinand Pecora, the lead counsel for the Senate Banking Committee in the early 1930s, led the charge to un...   read more

The inside of the National Pork Producers Council office in Washington, DC, resembled a war room last week as pork lobbyists almost pulled their hair out trying to contain the political and, most importantly, culinary fallout from “swine flu” hyst...   read more

The Obama administration wants to get tough with hedge funds, but there appears to be a turf battle about who should be in charge and how far to go. The new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is positioning herself to be the sheriff of...   read more

Diane Schroer, after retiring as a colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces, found herself on the frontline of a new kind of battle, right on American soil: the fight against transsexual discrimination in the workplace. The veteran sued the Library...   read more

Two United States senators are beside themselves since discovering that the Defense Department has not bothered to collect $100 million from a former subsidiary of Halliburton that excessively billed the US government—and has continued to reward t...   read more

On April 27, Stockwell Day, Canada’s International Trade Minister, announced that Canada gave notice to the Obama Administration of a complaint it has filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding new”country-of-origin” labeling regulati...   read more

For at the least the past 25 years, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has used taxpayer money to inject drug-addicted veterans with cocaine and morphine for research purposes. One study recruited nearly 40 cocaine addicts and injected them w...   read more

As the only Democrat currently on the board of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Jon Leibowitz was not much of a surprise pick by President Barack Obama to head up the regulatory commission. But his role as chairman is expected to move the FTC i...   read more

Floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a man-made island of plastic, invisible to the naked eye, that’s twice the size of Texas. The refuse was born of decades of dumping plastic containers, bottles and other material that gradually collec...   read more

Last Wednesday President Barack Obama declared that the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has already created or saved more than 150,000 jobs. The truth is, however, the White House has no definitive numbers showing this declaration to be accura...   read more

Government cost-cutting has taken a startling form in the Federal Bureau of Prison’s “unescorted transfer” program. Through this program, which began in 1996, inmates moving between minimum security detention facilities, halfway houses, and prison...   read more

To hear the speeches of Hugo Chávez and ex-President George W. Bush, you’d think that the United States and Venezuela were mortal enemies. In fact, while Bush was president, trade between the two nations increased for six straight years.   Since...   read more

The headline was shocking: “1,500 Farmers Commit Mass Suicide in India.” The story began in Northern Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph, was picked up by The Independent in England, and spread to the United States as a home-page story on the Huffington P...   read more