The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more

China’s military today has its first attack helicopter, thanks in part to a major American defense contractor that illegally provided important software and in the process violated U.S. export control laws.   Federal prosecutors announced this...   read more

Organized labor and some constitutional scholars reacted angrily to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that could impact unions’ ability to raise money from non-union members.   In some states, such as California, public sector unions can col...   read more

In contrast to many local governments that have tried to discourage the homeless from being in their communities, Rhode Island has decided to give them a “Bill of Rights.”   The state legislature and Governor Lincoln Chafee last week approved ...   read more

The federal government’s plan to allow potentially thousands of drones to fly through U.S. airspace in the coming years could result in disaster, unless a “gaping hole” in the unmanned aircraft’s navigation system is corrected.   A team of res...   read more

President Obama’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Netherlands has withdrawn his name from the confirmation process in the wake of his recent arrest for drunk driving and resisting arrest. Timothy M. Broas, 58, was pulled over by Montgomery ...   read more

The loud rumbling sound heard from China last week was the result of Chairman Mao Zedong rolling in his grave as the Chinese people, whose per capita income in 2008 was equivalent to $3,180, learned that the likely next President of China has es...   read more

A former Playboy Playmate and ex-girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has been granted an O-1B “Extraordinary Ability” visa, allowing her to remain in the United States for three years. According to the government, an O-1B visa is for “indi...   read more

President Obama has nominated a career diplomat with extensive prior experience in the Aegean Sea region to be the next U.S. ambassador to the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus. John M. Koenig has served previously in Cyprus, and while ...   read more

Six years after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy James Mee arrested actor Mel Gibson on a drunk driving charge, endured an anti-Semitic rant by the star, clashed with his superiors over removal of the rant from the arrest report, d...   read more

President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law survived the U.S. Supreme Court, but that doesn’t mean millions of Americans won’t lose their chance at medical insurance.   At the same time that the high court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (...   read more

Lawmakers in the U.S. House have decided to single out the General Services Administration (GSA), introducing legislation that would ban that agency’s employees under investigation from receiving bonuses.   The proposal follows several account...   read more

The U.S. Army has finally surrendered to overwhelming criticism of its current camouflage uniforms, which cost the service $5 billion but failed to sufficiently hide soldiers in combat.   The Army began using a pixilated design in 2004, claimi...   read more

Scott Gration, a close adviser and friend to President Barack Obama, has resigned as U.S. ambassador to Kenya, citing leadership differences with Washington.   In an email to The Washington Post, Gration wrote: “Differences with Washington reg...   read more

On May 24, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated a career diplomat who has served mainly in Africa to be the next ambassador to the West African nation of Guinea. Alexander Mark Laskaris would succeed Ambassador Patricia Moller, who has been ch...   read more

With the complicity of the U.S. Army, a defense contractor has forced its employees to attend anti-union meetings on a military base in Washington State.   About 120 civilian workers at Fort Lewis will vote today whether to join Local 286 of t...   read more

The U.S. Coast Guard has come to the rescue of oil companies planning to drill off the coast of Alaska by declaring environmentalists must stay away from company ships.   As 19 Arctic oil-drilling ships head through Puget Sound, groups like Gr...   read more