New Jersey governor Chris Christie has ordered the leader of the state's national guard to lose weight within the next 90 days.
The City of Baltimore is currently convulsing in civil unrest as people upset about the violent death of Freddie Gray by police have turned to rioting.
The Governor of Missouri, Democrat Jay Nixon, has instituted a state of emergency for the entire state over fears that Darren Wilson, the officer accused of killing Mike Brown in August, will not be indicted on murder charges by a grand jury.
U.S. Senator John Walsh, a Democrat, has withdrawn from the Montana race for the Senate after he was found guilty of plagiarizing large portions of the thesis he submitted for his master's degree from the United States Army War College.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has formally announced his plans to send 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to patrol the border with Mexico in an effort to address the humanitarian crisis at the border.
