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

President Barack Obama has proposed easing export controls on firearms in an effort to help American manufacturers boost their sales. But officials within the administration have objected to the controversial plan, which some say could result in a...   read more

At the very end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the prized Lost Ark of the Covenant is last seen disappearing inside an immense government warehouse, presumably lost forever amid thousands and thousands of boxes.   The same fate may have befallen th...   read more

Faced with runaway costs from housing too many prisoners, politicians in Georgia have decided to change the way the state deals with low-level offenders so that correctional facilities primarily house violent criminals.   Under landmark legislat...   read more

A Pennsylvania eighth-grade student and her mother won a battle after challenging school officials’ position that students must stand during the Pledge of Allegiance or else be punished for “disorderly conduct.”   Carolyn Raja sued the Brownsvil...   read more

Apple is a leader not only in technology but also tax dodging.   The world’s most profitable tech company has developed over the years creative legal ways (that other companies have followed) to minimize its tax hit with the U.S. government.   ...   read more

Officials in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have been touting their agency’s timely delivery of mental health services to veterans. It turns out those claims were greatly exaggerated.   According to the VHA, 95% of first-time mental-he...   read more

In an era when 97% of climate scientists believe that climate change is a serious problem, increasingly isolated scientific skeptics have turned to the skies to explain why the threat of global warming is much ado about nothing.   Richard S. Lin...   read more

Bad air may contribute to cases of obesity for some inner-city residents of New York City.   Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health studied more than 700 pregnant women and found those exposed to higher concentratio...   read more

The Obama administration has crafted a master plan for biotechnology that emphasizes economic opportunities while ignoring sufficient regulation of the industry.   The National Bioeconomy Blueprint, released by the White House, is part of the Ob...   read more

A little-known office within the U.S. Department of Agriculture has come under scrutiny for killing thousands of animals in the name of helping ranchers and the environment.   Over the past dozen years, Wildlife Services, which has an annual bud...   read more

Wal-Mart, exposed for bribing officials in Mexico, is by no means the only major American corporation to get busted recently for payoffs. In fact, the retail giant has plenty of company when it comes to breaking the law and supporting efforts to c...   read more

A pesticide used on farms and golf courses has been linked to brain abnormalities in babies, according to a group of researchers.   The chemical chlorpyrifos, found in Dow Chemical’s pesticide Dursban, can impact the development of the cortex, w...   read more

Things were looking up for seniors until the last decade. During the 1980s and 1990s, poverty declined among older Americans. But this trend began to reverse, especially after 2005, with poverty levels increasing for both seniors and younger citiz...   read more

More Americans had biracial children last decade compared to the previous 10-year period, according to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau.   Of the 3.5 million children born in 2009, about 7% were of two or more races. At the end of t...   read more

Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has praised its agents numerous times for thwarting terrorist plots. Some of these conspiracies, however, have been aided, if not encouraged, by FBI agents ...   read more

When the George W. Bush administration bailed out Wall Street four years ago, it created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and a special inspector general (SIGTARP) to advise the Department of the Treasury on the rescue. It turns out, thoug...   read more