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

Action film star Jackie Chan has angered many of his fans with his comments about Chinese democracy at a business forum for state officials, scholars and businessmen: “If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Ta...   read more

Officials at the University of North Dakota (UND) are proud of their school’s nickname: the Fighting Sioux. But many local members of the Sioux Nation are not thrilled with it, and the university has only one more year, according to a legal settle...   read more

On April 16 Volvo announced its launch of three new child seats that offer a wider range of protection for children up to the age of ten, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has banned the sale of these child seats in th...   read more

“A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm,” was how one former CIA official described the decision by high-ranking members of the Bush administration to utilize torture methods against detainees that had been proven ineffective years earlier by...   read more

According to former intelligence and military officials, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pushed interrogators to use torture to prove once and for all that a link did exist between al Qaeda and the regime of...   read more

Because of the current recession, more Americans are staying put than ever before, or at least since the government began keeping track of such figures. The U.S. Census Bureau announced on Wednesday that the national mover rate declined from 13.2%...   read more

A puzzle that the Central Intelligence Agency set out to solve more than 20 years ago still remains a mystery today. In 1988, the CIA commissioned James Sanborn, a DC artist, to create a sculpture of encrypted messages to be placed in the CIA head...   read more

When President Barack Obama named Lt. General Karl Eikenberry to be U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, few, if any, realized at the time that the decision represented just the first of hundreds of civilian positions in Afghanistan that soon will be m...   read more

Once the Washington Post blew the cover off the Bush administration’s secret rendition program in November 2005, the CIA began closing up that operation by turning detainees over to other governments or shipping them to Guantánamo Bay. At the time...   read more

Not once, not twice, but several times have plans for the Defense Department’s most sophisticated, and expensive, military plane been hacked by cyber spies from China. In the most recent occurrence, intruders were able to gain access to the design...   read more

Residents of Institute, West Virginia, were fortunate they did not become the next Bhopal when an explosion occurred last August at a Bayer chemical plant containing large quantities of the same chemical that killed thousands in India in 1984. A ...   read more

President Barack Obama’s proclamation to his cabinet that they collectively cut out $100 million from the federal budget amounts to much ado about nothing, when the savings is put into perspective. Given the enormous size of the federal operating ...   read more

President Barack Obama’s “no lobbyists” rule for his administration has prevented a leading human rights expert from becoming the State Department’s top human rights official. Tom Malinowski, the Washington, DC, advocacy director for Human Rights ...   read more

Based on numbers released by the Obama White House, and current unemployment figures, the stimulus package is likely to be more help to those states not hit hard by the recession than those really struggling to recover. Mint.com compared jobless t...   read more

For the past 50 years, Cuba has successfully avoided the spread of technologies such as cell phones and new cars. But that may soon change as American companies eye the Cuban market and the momentum toward abolishing the trade embargo grows.   I...   read more

The United Nations Durban II conference on racism in Geneva last week attracted media coverage surrounding both the issue of the United States and other western nations boycotting the summit because of its anti-Israeli bias, and Iranian President ...   read more