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

Labor leaders and some Democrats are unhappy with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and its glacial pace of implementing new standards for protecting workers.   A 30-year review of OSHA safety rules revealed the agency put...   read more

After a year of analysis, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the Department of Defense is still nowhere near developing a reliable defense against ballistic missiles.   About $80 billion was spent over the past 10 years bu...   read more

Some law enforcement departments in Maryland may not obey an appellate court ruling that forbids police from taking DNA samples from criminal suspects without a warrant.   Since 2009, police have routinely collected DNA samples when arresting su...   read more

Fourteen-year-old best friends Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall of Sterling, Illinois, looking forward to starting high school, were just trying to earn some money by working for Monsanto during the summer of 2011, when they were electrocuted in a fa...   read more

Just as American drug users get most of their product ultimately from Mexico, Mexican drug cartels get most of the weapons they use from the United States. The drug war in Mexico, which has killed about 50,000 people since 2006, depends not only o...   read more

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds, a California town is besieged by thousands of attacking seagulls, crows and other feathery foes, whose murderous ire toward humanity goes unexplained. If not an avian protest against DDT use (chronicled i...   read more

Florida Governor Rick Scott’s mandatory drug-testing program for state workers, created by executive order, has been thrown out by a federal judge.   District Judge Ursula Ungaro found no compelling justification for the plan, which amounted to ...   read more

The partisan battle over Michigan’s year-old law that empowers the Governor to appoint emergency “czars” with sweeping authority to overrule elected officials in financially troubled cities or school districts, including the ability to overturn lo...   read more

Just eight days after the leak of a government report detailing waste and other problems at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s nuclear weapons labs, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces approved legislation that would actually w...   read more

Corn farmers are battling other farmers, as well as environmentalists, over a new strain of genetically modified corn that’s resistant to a powerful herbicide suspected of causing cancer.   At the center of the controversy is 2,4-D, a chemical u...   read more

Insurance company executives are aware of the future risks posed by climate change. And yet they have been slow to prepare for the coming wave of weather-related accidents and litigation spawned by global warming changes.   In a survey conducted...   read more

Local leaders in Scotland and the state of Oregon are genuinely excited about the pairing of Dull and Boring.   Dull refers to the small village (population: 84) in the Highland part of Scotland’s Perth and Kinross county, while Boring is an uni...   read more

In the middle of one of its largest ever projects–the rollout of a new air traffic control system, dubbed “NextGen”–the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lost Administrator Randy Babbitt, who resigned on December 6, 2011, days after he was arr...   read more

Legislation intended to combat cyber threats may itself become a threat to civil liberties. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 248 to 168.   The act would allow...   read more

Lacking what critics said was common sense and compassion, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at the Wichita, Kansas, airport treated a 4-year-old child like a terrorist.   Isabella Brademeyer and her 6-year-old brother, Olive...   read more

One of the most oppressive post-Soviet dictatorships, the central Asian nation of Tajikistan has won the friendship of the U.S. government through its cooperation with Washington’s wars in the region. President Barack Obama on April 16 nominated c...   read more