President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed outrage to aides because there have been no violent mass street demonstrations against his statements and policies. He believes he needs violent demonstrations against him in order to declare a national state of emergency that would allow him to do anything he wants.   read more

Warnings of Medicare running out of money have been around almost as long as the program itself.   Founded in 1965, the first projection that Medicare would become insolvent was issued only five years later by its board of trustees. Then, the wo...   read more

The year 2011 was the most active in four years in terms of strikes and lockouts across the United States.   There were a total of 19 major work stoppages in 2011 involving 1,000 or more employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BL...   read more

Parents may have a tougher time winning the argument with their children about the importance of attending college if their offspring hear the latest news from the U.S. Department of Labor.   As of April, the number of unemployed people (age 25 ...   read more

Earlier this year Milwaukee’s police chief, Edward Flynn, proclaimed crime had gone down four years in a row under his watch—an achievement that helped him become the city’s first chief in 27 years to secure a second four-year contract. An investi...   read more

After years of claiming no link between open-air pits of burning garbage in Iraq and Afghanistan and the health problems of war veterans, the U.S. military has documented that there may indeed be a correlation between the two.   In an April 2011...   read more

Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who ran a fake hepatitis B vaccination program to help the CIA find Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison by a regional tribal court in Pakistan. Afridi was not allowed to attend the trial or...   read more

At least one million parts used in U.S. military aircraft, vehicles and other hardware were produced by overseas counterfeiters in China and other countries.   A 14-month investigation by a U.S. Senate committee found Chinese companies were the ...   read more

If JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon appears before the congressional investigation into his firm’s multi-billion-dollar trading loss, he will find a familiar, and perhaps friendly, face staring at him from across the room.   That’s because the Sen...   read more

When buying portions of the U.S. debt, foreign banks must first go through certain banks on Wall Street certified by the Department of the Treasury for such sales. But the Obama administration decided last year to forego this middle-man process fo...   read more

With very little warning, the House Ethics Committee met late last week for the first time in a year to amend its rules regarding the filing of financial disclosure statements and when it can take testimony.   The result was a “public” hearing w...   read more

To the relief of some agency staff, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has decided to resign before another investigative report comes out echoing previous complaints about his management style.   Among other problems, Chair...   read more

In another first for China, the Asian giant’s largest entertainment group has reached a deal to purchase the second biggest theater chain in the U.S., making the sale the largest to date of an American business to the Chinese.   The Dalian Wanda...   read more

News of Facebook’s initial public offering couldn’t have come at a better time for California Governor Jerry Brown.   Confronted with a budget deficit of nearly $16 billion, Brown and the state’s lawmakers have been looking for new sources of re...   read more

Northrop Grumman is very happy with how this year’s NATO summit in Chicago turned out.   The defense contractor officially closed a deal with the alliance for the purchase of five Block 40 Global Hawk drones. The sale will earn Northrop Grumman ...   read more

Mothers for Justice and Equality, a Boston-based advocacy group, is sponsoring billboards around the city that carry the message that it’s time to stop the killings in minority neighborhoods.   Accompanying photos of murder victims, the billboar...   read more

It may seem counterintuitive, but a healthy economy is bad for human health, at least when it comes to elderly women in nursing homes.   A paper produced by researchers at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College concluded that morta...   read more