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

President Barack Obama’s pledge to maintain a high ethical standard in his administration hasn’t stopped the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from employing a former top executive from a major FEMA contractor to serve as the agency’s lea...   read more

The only man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, may be transferred from Scotland to finish his sentence at home in a Libyan prison. Megrahi was convicted of murder for the bombing of the Pan Am...   read more

Kenya is once again poised on the brink of political violence between factions, prompting one leading female attorney to propose a novel solution for resolving the crisis: Don’t sleep with your husband. Taking a page from the ancient Greek play, L...   read more

The federal government may finally be moving towards eliminating the unequal sentencing in U.S. drug laws that punish users of crack more than cocaine. Key government and judicial officials testified at a congressional hearing on Wednesday that th...   read more

American officials fighting against Islamic terrorism should utilize a war-of-words to marginalize militant extremists, according to a new comprehensive study, the “Militant Ideology Atlas,” commissioned by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point....   read more

Perhaps the most worried Americans during the current swine flu epidemic are pig farmers, who have dreaded the widespread association of the illness with their livelihood. Since the outbreak began, the pork industry has lobbied hard to change the ...   read more

The trend in recent years of grandparents raising their grandchildren has reached all the way to the military. There are about 2.5 million grandparents across the country caring for their children’s children, and while the military does not have i...   read more

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts has released statistics on non-terrorism-related wiretap reports from 1998 to 2008 showing that much of the spending on wiretap technology might not be cost-effective. Wiretaps installed betwee...   read more

Education advocates, policy makers and parents alike are criticizing the failure of Congress and the Obama Administration to ensure the continuation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, a federally funded school voucher system in the Distric...   read more

The ugly truth about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program soon may wind up on trial, now that a controversial civil case has been cleared to proceed. The Ninth Circuit appellate court ruled on Tuesday that five foreign nationals who claim the...   read more

If it holds up among all parties involved, a plan brokered by the federal government would give controlling interest of battered car maker Chrysler to the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. UAW would command a 55% stake, with Italian car company Fia...   read more

Last year, Forbes ranked Sheila Bair the second most powerful woman in the world behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), believes there is no financial juggernaut too big for the ...   read more

When Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, the oil giant also bought responsibility for a lawsuit that now threatens to yield the largest penalties ever in an environmental case. In 1993 lawyers in Ecuador filed suit claiming Texaco had caused widespre...   read more

To help hold President Barack Obama to his pledge of creating a “new era of openness” in government, the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law has released a report card that grades how transparent the administration ...   read more

The U.S. government is preparing to go on the offensive against the growing threat of cyber-warfare, a New York Times investigation has determined. Like the Cold War, during which American officials planned not only defensive but also “first strik...   read more

An unusual clash has developed in the environmental movement between forces that are usually allied: advocates of renewable energy and supporters of wildlife habitats. In response to the Bureau of Land Management’s recently approved, large-scale s...   read more