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

Australia, already the skin cancer capital of the world, is now the first place where fish are known to get the deadly disease as well. The Land Down Under sits under the planet’s largest hole in the ozone layer, a stratum of the atmosphere that a...   read more

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finally launched its online database that’s supposed to provide information on who’s spending what on television commercials related to election campaigns.   But the database is not user-friendly f...   read more

Republican voters in Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District decided this week to keep Tea Partier and Congresswoman Diane Black as their party’s nominee, even though she was accused by her GOP rival of not being anti-Muslim enough.   In the Repu...   read more

Lieutenant General David G. Perkins serves as the commander of the Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers, and training programs located throughout...   read more

Facebook has nearly one billion profiles. It also has tens of millions of phony ones, too.   The social media giant has admitted that nearly 9% of all “users” on Facebook are not real. That translates into 83 million fake profiles, out of 955 mi...   read more

Like it or not, the tobacco industry will continue being monitored and regulated by both the federal courts and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington.   Cigarette makers filed motions to end co...   read more

Alan Gourgue served four years in the Marine Corps and was honorably discharged. But that didn’t stop the military from wrongly arresting him years later, claiming he was a deserter.   The resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is now suing the ser...   read more

A longtime critic of the defense industry, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) surprised many observers when he hired a former Lockheed Martin executive to help him on the Senate Armed Services Committee.   Ann Elise Sauer, a one-time Lockheed vice ...   read more

The United States has often made bad decisions while trying to reconstruct Afghanistan, where hundreds of millions of American tax dollars are going to waste.   As much as $400 million has been spent unwisely on large construction projects, acco...   read more

A federal appeals court has blocked the implementation of Arizona’s late-term abortion law, which was set to take effect on August 2.   The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in July to stop the...   read more

The Department of Justice has been doing a lousy job of informing other federal agencies about companies that have broken the law and are supposed to be barred from contracting work.   According to the department’s inspector general (IG), the Bu...   read more

Living without electricity is something hundreds of millions in India do everyday, and not just when the country’s shaky power grid collapses.   The world’s second most populous country garnered international attention this week when it experien...   read more

After spending years trying to debunk global warming, scientist Richard Muller has come to the conclusion that the earth really is heating up—and that humans are to blame.   Muller, a UC Berkeley physicist, co-founded the Berkeley Earth Surface ...   read more

Pennsylvania’s “Medical Gag Rule” faces a legal challenge in federal court now that a local doctor has sued the state to get the fracking-related law thrown out.   Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against the state attorney general, its sec...   read more

Putting the cart before the horse can have dangerous consequences if the cart is a nuclear power plant and the horse represents earthquake safety.   But that’s what has happened in Japan, where the government decided to restart some of its nucle...   read more

The prosecution of a Southern California college professor could have far-reaching effects on other universities and laboratory faculty.   Professor Patrick Harran and the University of California Regents were charged last year with three counts...   read more