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

With its satellite already in orbit, the government of Vietnam will now receive a $125.8 million loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) that will help pay for the space hardware purchased from Lockheed Martin.   The Vinasat-2 telecommun...   read more

In a year of billion-dollar settlements involving drug manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has topped them all. The British pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record amount—$3 billion—to resolve criminal charges for promoting its best-s...   read more

North Carolina moved a big step closer to allowing the most controversial form of natural gas drilling, thanks to the errant voting of Democratic lawmaker Becky Carney.   Republicans in the statehouse pushed through legislation that would crea...   read more

Local judges in Georgia are still closing their courtrooms to the public, despite being told by the nation’s highest court to stop.   The U.S. Supreme Court two years ago vacated a Georgia Supreme Court ruling that had upheld the closure of a ...   read more

Florida’s attempt to stop doctors from discussing gun ownership with patients has been blocked by a federal judge.   The legislation, which was signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott, was directed primarily at pediatricians, who routinely ask new ...   read more

The Pentagon is temporarily suspending part of a popular program that allows police departments to buy military weapons after news reports of million-dollar California buying sprees that included a tank. The military wants to conduct an inventor...   read more

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the penalty for not having health insurance is a tax, some Republicans, including Rep. Connie Mack of Florida and Rep. Jeff Landry, have blasted the federal healthcare reform law as containing the l...   read more

It may not come as a surprise that the world’s largest arms trader has reservations about negotiations for a treaty to limit the international sale of weapons that began on Tuesday in New York.   The United States, which sells more military ha...   read more

Complaints about tax-exempt groups, which have become a mainstay of federal elections, are not being managed or processed efficiently by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), according to a new report.   The Department of the Treasury’s inspecto...   read more

Utility giant the Southern Company received a generous loan guarantee from the Obama administration as part of a plan to build the first new commercial nuclear reactors in decades.   To help the Southern Company build the new reactors at Plant...   read more

The federal government is becoming increasingly secretive, every year classifying more and more information as out of bounds for ordinary American citizens, yet charging us billions to keep its secrets from us. According to the recently released...   read more

Not satisfied with making money off the burgeoning U.S. market for drones, defense contractors are lobbying Washington to allow them to sell pilotless aircraft to foreign buyers.   Northrop Grumman and other companies want Congress and the Oba...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia over alleged violations of federal law that guarantee the right of overseas military personnel to participate in elections.   Federal attorneys claim that unless something is done, s...   read more

As a result of deep budget cuts, the sheriff in Lane County, Oregon, freed 96 prisoners from the county jail, including three suspects awaiting trial for manslaughter.   Space at the jail is not a problem, according to Sheriff Tom Turner. But ...   read more

Four prostitutes are suing the state of Louisiana for requiring them to register as sex offenders because they provided oral or anal sex to clients.   Under Louisiana law, prostitutes found guilty of only offering intercourse are not considere...   read more

Most of the discussion in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) dealt with its political implications, such as whether this will help President Barack Obama’s reelection campa...   read more