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

The American workplace is not as safe as it could be. Every day in the United States, 13 people are killed on the job, about 137 die from occupational diseases and at least 10,000 suffer workplace injuries or illnesses, according to data recently ...   read more

DeKalb County’s sheriff’s department recently treated the eviction of a four-generation family like a violent drug bust, all because the local Occupy Movement was helping her avoid losing the current homeowner home.   In the middle of the night,...   read more

At 4 feet, 8 inches tall and 82 pounds, Keeling Pilaro is by no means the biggest player on Southampton High School’s field hockey team. But the Long Island, New York, 13-year-old is the only boy on the all-girls squad, and quite good. Too good, a...   read more

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has unveiled its first plane built at a new plant in South Carolina, where non-union workers are trying to prove they’re just as capable of producing quality jetliners as the organized labor workforce in Washington Sta...   read more

In what critics are calling a classic case of shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, the Obama administration has issued a proposed new rule requiring energy companies that engage in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on public land to ...   read more

Conservative legislators in Utah and Arizona have recently passed new laws demanding that the federal government turn over control of federally-owned land in those states or face state taxation. Although legal experts point out that the constituti...   read more

In the 1984 hit sci-fi movie The Terminator, the artificial intelligence network Skynet becomes self-aware and initiates a nuclear world war against humankind. In the real world of the early 21st Century, the nations of the world are preparing for...   read more

The United States spends more per person on health care than 13 other industrialized nations. But paying more has not meant getting more in return, according to a study published by The Commonwealth Fund.   In terms of health care expenditures, ...   read more

To understand how the wealthy 1% more than doubled its share of the nation’s wealth in the past 30 years and holds onto it, just keep an eye on Wall Street and the corporate CEOs. Today, American CEO pay is about 231 times greater than average wor...   read more

Under federal law, telecommunications companies are required to provide affordable phone and Internet rates to schools in low-income areas, as well as subsidize the cost of equipment and services. The program is called E-Rate, but the time may hav...   read more

Melvin W. Russell, who created a stir in military circles in January when he proposed moving the Pentagon-funded but editorially independent newspaper Stars and Stripes from downtown Washington, DC, to rural Fort Meade, Virginia, served as acting ...   read more

Marijuana has become the most popular substance to smoke among teenagers today, according to a survey by an anti-drug organization.   The Partnership at DrugFree.org found that 27% of teens said they had smoked marijuana within the last month. T...   read more

A large group of Asian-American fishermen have sued BP in federal court claiming the oil company discriminated against them when it hired locals to help with the 2010 oil spill.   Through BP’s Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program, about 5,000 bo...   read more

A Vietnam Era veteran who started his cemetery career as a day laborer has risen to be the number one man at Arlington National Cemetery, the crown jewel of the national cemeteries, which conducts about 27 funerals per day. Patrick K. Hallinan was...   read more

The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), which manages the Transportation Department’s research and development programs with the goal of creating technologies that can be used to improve transportation, has an acting administ...   read more

Lasting upwards of 10 years, the “Enduring Strategic Partnership” between the United States and Afghanistan will take effect after American combat forces have pulled out of the war in 2014. But the long-term agreement could wind up being a very sh...   read more