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

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing hard to be given broad new powers over the financial industry, arguing, “We’re having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision.” This is the same Timothy Geithner who previo...   read more

In recent years, the world has had to come to terms with the fact that pirates are not just a romantic phenomenon of another era, but still exist today. Now Americans are seeing the return of another lost category of criminals: cattle rustlers. Ca...   read more

What’s the easiest way to make a cool $8 billion this year? Take one part “black liquor,” add a dash of diesel fuel, and voila! In no time you’ll be receiving a fat check from the IRS—if you’re the paper industry, that is. Here’s how it works. In ...   read more

Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to settle the largest case ever of fraud involving military procurement, valued at $325 million. However, the federal government won’t see any net gain from the settlement, but the defense giant will. That’s becau...   read more

Thomas Perez, selected by President Barack Obama on March 27thto be the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, awaits Congressional confirmation of his appointment amid anticipation of protests from conservative groups. The position has hist...   read more

If the Obama administration was planning to ship detainees to Afghanistan as part of its closure plans for Guantanamo Bay, then a federal judge has thrown a wrench into those preparations. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled on Thursday that t...   read more

The state of Washington now finds itself without an executioner, following the abrupt resignation of its lethal injection team. The four volunteers who administer lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla...   read more

The United States wanted to bring democracy to Afghanistan, and now they have it, including the ugly side of electoral politics. In a move to shore up his support for the upcoming election, President Hamid Karzai signed a law that legalizes rape w...   read more

It took numerous complaints, two critical reports, and demands from Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama fire him, but finally NASA’s inspector general has stepped down. Robert “Moose” Cobb first got into hot water in 2007 when his close assoc...   read more

After a century of controversy, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi, with 55,000 members, is on the verge of complete federal recognition. A hearing on the matter was held on March 18th in ...   read more

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced earlier this week that a Chicago-based manufacturing company, Republic Windows & Doors, violated national labor laws when it shut down its unionized plant and relocated operations to a non-union ...   read more

Among the many problems plaguing America’s intelligence operation is the fact that a majority of those working for the nation’s top spy agency don’t have a clear understanding of their mission, according to a highly critical report released Wednes...   read more

If you’re a veteran and need to schedule a visit to a VA hospital, good luck. After eight years and $167 million, a project by the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a computerized patient-scheduling system has “all but collapsed,” accordin...   read more

What’s worse than paying hundreds of millions of dollars for military aircraft that never show up? Paying even more money and still no delivery. That’s what the Pentagon has done as part of the United States’ plan to rebuild the Iraqi military. Tw...   read more

The Obama administration is fooling itself if it thinks it can help banks rid themselves of their toxic assets by relying on the same system that created the mess in the first place. This according to Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia Unive...   read more

IRS records from 2007 show that the gap between the U.S.’s rich and the poor is widening significantly, judging from the difference between rich and poor counties’ adjusted gross incomes (AGI) and average salaries. Goochland County, Virginia, at t...   read more