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

Americans with and without health insurance are increasingly finding health care too expensive to see a doctor in a timely manner, according to a new study.   In 2000, one out of eight adults said they had “unmet medical” needs due to cost issue...   read more

 Parents of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only U.S. soldier being held prisoner in Afghanistan, have said election-year politics are getting in the way of President Barack Obama negotiating their son’s release.   Captured in 2009, Bergdahl is...   read more

It took 321 days for the FBI to fill the 10th spot on their Ten Most Wanted List left open by the arrest last year of Whitey Bulger…but only one day to close the case. Adam Mayes’ inclusion on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s fugitive list ...   read more

Viviette Applewhite, 93, of Philadelphia has become the face of a civil liberties lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania for requiring voters to show identification before voting. The new requirement was signed into law by Republican Governor T...   read more

They have spent less time in the Oval Office than their conservative counterparts over the last five decades, but Democratic presidents have presided over better private sector job growth than Republicans.   Bob Drummond at Bloomberg analyzed 50...   read more

Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Air Force isn’t supposed to spy on Americans. But the secretary of the Air Force, Michael Donley,  has decided the service’s drones can conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” of people in the U.S. for a limite...   read more

RBS Citizens bank is being sued for allegedly taking advantage of customers when they mistakenly low-ball the amounts of their deposits, resulting in the bank keeping the difference.   In a federal class action lawsuit, lead plaintiff Todd Bower...   read more

A bricks-and-mortar version of Sim City is going up in New Mexico, where a technology development firm will spend $1 billion to build a full-scale city just for scientists and engineers to tinker with.   Construction of The Center for Innovation...   read more

It’s been 20 years since California politics witnessed so many lawmakers getting arrested.   In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was Shrimpscam that got so many legislators into trouble, after federal agents conducted a sting operation to root...   read more

Pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay $1.6 billion to settle accusations that it illegally marketed the anti-seizure medication Depakote for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).   About $800 million...   read more

For California to execute the more than 700 murderers on death row, the state would have to spend about $700 million to do so, according to the Bay Area News Group.   The review of capital punishment cases revealed just how costly, and time cons...   read more

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), composed of conservative politicians and corporations that promote pro-business legislative agendas, has been allowed to lobby in South Carolina and other states without being required to register ...   read more

Severe trauma, the kind most commonly but not exclusively linked to combat, may get a new name if the military has its way.   Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) could soon morph into PTSI—for post-traumatic stress injury.   Former General P...   read more

A gruesome murder case in Burlington, Massachusetts, may open the way for online video to serve as evidence in convicting a man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death while a young boy watched from his home computer.   Christopher Piante...   read more

Originally scheduled to open a new $80 million consulate last month in northern Afghanistan, the State Department has now abandoned its plans after failing to heed warnings early on about the project.   The ill-fated plan was conceived three yea...   read more

From Tennessee to the District of Columbia, police are using mobile and stationary surveillance cameras to collect and store license plates of residents who have committed no crime—so that they can be found if they ever do.   In Tennessee, polic...   read more