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

Coming off a big 2011, hackers are off to another strong start so far this year. Last year, either political hackers or cybercriminals went after entertainment companies (Sony), encryption designers and even the Central Intelligence Agency, to nam...   read more

Coming only days after a protest outside a major telecommunications company, Republican lawmakers in Georgia have introduced a bill that would subject non-violent demonstrators involved in a labor dispute to heavy fines and felony convictions.   ...   read more

The North Atlantic island-nation of Iceland, which is the only NATO country with no standing army, has sent Guðmundur Árni Stefánsson to be its ambassador to the United States. Stefánsson is a longtime Social Democratic politician who became a dip...   read more

Federal authorities launched a two-pronged attack crime in Detroit, holding press conferences to announce crackdowns on both violence and corruption.   On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, surrounded symbolically by city, state and feder...   read more

The West African nation of Mali’s latest ambassador to the United States is a seasoned diplomat whose career has been focused more on relations with other African nations than with the U.S. Keita presented his credentials to President Barack Obama...   read more

Following on a congressman’s recommendation for trimming a hundred billion dollars in federal nuclear repairs, a watchdog organization has offered up its own suggestions for ways to keep Washington from spending $7.5 billion for new facilities.  ...   read more

Norman B. Smith, the 63-year-old cancer patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who was denied a liver transplant because he used medical marijuana, says in a new interview that it’s probably too late for him to make a recovery even ...   read more

Garbage will collide with garbage sometime later this year in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. As a result of the tsunami that struck Japan last year, a large mass of debris, including objects as large as televisions and refrigerators, will reach ...   read more

Two dating websites in Dallas and Vancouver face a lawsuit for exploiting the image of a dead American soldier killed in Iraq.   Pof.com and True.com have been using a photo of Army Lieutenant Peter Burks, who died on November 14, 2007, followin...   read more

One good turn deserves another when the country’s most powerful man has a scheduling conflict with the country’s most popular sport.   This week, the National Football League announced it will open its 2012 season on Wednesday night, September 5...   read more

Lawmakers in Virginia have put aside their partisan differences about health care, contraception and other issues to officially oppose a controversial law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama that allows the federal government t...   read more

Indicative that something is amiss with the corporate income tax system, General Electric over the last 10 years paid only 2.3% tax on more than $81 billion in profits, according to the advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice.   It was revealed ...   read more

Following on his criticism last year of the Republican-led plan, President Barack Obama this week attempted to get around the mandate that terrorism suspects be tried by military tribunals.   To accomplish this end-around, Obama issued waivers t...   read more

Qorvis, one of Washington, DC’s top lobbying and public relations firms, has continued to help one of its most controversial clients improve its image with American leaders.   Since signing a $40,000-a-month contract with the government of Bahra...   read more

From cars to diapers, the Dr. Seuss character known as The Lorax, created back in 1971 to “speak for the trees,” can be seen promoting one consumer good after another, as part of the new Universal Pictures’ film debuting this week.   The use of ...   read more

Top officials in the National Security Agency (NSA) are pushing for greater access to private-sector computer networks, all in the name of preventing cyberattacks. But the White House has insisted the NSA slow down its efforts, mainly because of p...   read more