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

Environmental activists combing the Pacific Ocean for Japan’s whaling fleet managed to locate it and disrupt its work, forcing the whalers to give up before reaching their quotas.   After catching up to the fleet, the group Sea Shepherd threw st...   read more

The West African nation of Benin will soon have an ambassador from the United States who has specialized in relations with Africa his entire career. Michael A. Raynor, nominated by President Obama on December 15, 2011, is currently Executive Direc...   read more

Despite a significant decline in the price of generics, the cost of purchasing prescription drugs has gone up for seniors.   A new report from the AARP’s Public Policy Institute says the prices of drugs used most often by older Americans went up...   read more

Regardless of which political party chose them or the circumstances of the cases presided over, federal judges have varied widely in their sentencing decisions, according to an investigation by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)...   read more

It is no wonder public discontent has been so sharp during the so-called economic recovery in the United States, considering the findings of a new study by Emmanuel Saez, whose previous studies on income distribution have given a statistical basis...   read more

A local judge in California has temporarily blocked the release of a university report on the pepper-spraying of UC Davis student protesters on November 18 by campus police.   Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo’s ruling came after a police union...   read more

Rush Limbaugh provoked controversy for his rant in which he called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” because she advocated requiring private insurance plans to cover contraception. But last October Limbaugh went even farther ove...   read more

Republican lawmakers from the government oversight and judiciary committees are investigating whether the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broke the law when officials spied on employees’ emails.   California Representative Darrell Issa, chair...   read more

A battle is brewing between politically-oriented nonprofit organizations and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about whether the groups deserve tax-protected status. Although such groups support both major political parties, it is the wealthier c...   read more

Five years ago today, Bob Levinson, a retired FBI agent, flew from Dubai to Kish Island in Iran. He disappeared and has not been seen or heard from since. Now the FBI has offered $1 million to anyone who anyone who provides information that leads ...   read more

Stars and Stripes, the military’s newspaper that operates independently from the armed services, has been told to relocate its offices from downtown Washington, DC, to a military base where it will share the same building used by a key public affa...   read more

Vice Admiral Mark D. Harnitchek became director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in November 2011. Located in the Defense Department, DLA provides support as well as technical and logistic services to the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corp...   read more

In a speech before a university audience, Attorney General Eric Holder this week provided the legal justifications for assassinating American citizens involved in terrorism.   Holder told students at Northwestern University that the government c...   read more

Some “green” energy companies supported by the Obama administration have caused critics to see red.   That’s because at least four alternative energy businesses that received financing from the Department of Energy wound up filing for bankruptcy...   read more

What could become the most costly weapons program in U.S. history is moving forward because leaders in the Department of Defense decided to lower the plane’s performance standards.   The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter reportedly passed a key test of ...   read more

The next meeting of G8 leaders will not be held in Chicago after all, in anticipation that the event would attract large numbers of demonstrators.   President Barack Obama made the call to relocate the meeting of leaders of the world’s largest e...   read more