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

Is President Barack Obama really bad for the gun business? One pro-gun group doesn’t think so.   Online ammunition supplier Ammo.net recently posted on its website that Obama is “the greatest gun salesman in America.”   “Ironically, the percei...   read more

The lawyer for a former U.S. Marine facing execution in Iran for allegedly spying has asked American officials to consider a prisoner swap in order to save his client’s life.   Amir Mirzaei Hekmati was sentenced in January to be hanged after bei...   read more

Women are less likely than men to survive a heart attack, according to recent statistics. A study found that 42% of women who have heart attacks die within one year compared with 24% of men.   Researchers attribute the discrepancy in heart attac...   read more

An $11.5 million study 20 years in the making on the effects of diesel exhaust fumes on miners has been delayed from publication by mining companies and members of Congress.   The investigation by the National Cancer Institute and the National I...   read more

While making a living on $7.25 an hour is not easy, it’s even tougher when the federal minimum wage for waiters and waitresses is only $2.13—a rate that hasn’t changed since 1991.   The justification for the lower rate is that these restaurant w...   read more

Chicago city officials have agreed to a $6.2 million settlement with the more than 800 protesters who were wrongfully arrested or detained in 2003 while demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Iraq.   Members of the class action lawsuit will ...   read more

Thousands of workers in Central America are dying from kidney disease that has turned into an epidemic, according to health experts.   More than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua have died since 2000 from kidney failure, which usually o...   read more

While millions of Americans will continue to enjoy their modest payroll tax cut, many of them will now have to submit to drug testing as part of the deal struck between the two parties in Congress. As part of the compromise reached to extend the t...   read more

Montana’s century-old law banning corporate spending in elections is now in limbo, after the U.S. Supreme Court put a hold on a decision that upheld the prohibition.   After opponents of the Montana law lost their case before the state Supreme C...   read more

Private prison operators have lost a high-profile investor, now that one of the nation’s largest Protestant churches has pulled its money from the companies.   The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church, “aft...   read more

Affirming what anecdotal evidence has suggested about the mortgage crisis, an audit out of San Francisco has found that more than 80% of foreclosures broke some kind of law.   City officials requested the audit that examined 382 randomly chosen ...   read more

Why would Wall Street go back into the same risky investments that toppled some of its biggest firms and nearly crippled the financial sector? Simple: The deals are just too good to pass up and, as the 2008 bailout showed, those on top will probab...   read more

To say fundraising this election is being dominated by the 1% would be a gross overestimation. The actual number is more like .0000063%. Super PACs, the most talked about aspect so far of the 2012 campaign, received nearly 80% of their individual ...   read more

Despite being propelled to victory by progressive supporters critical of the Bush administration’s record on civil liberties, President Barack Obama has directed the Justice Department to defend many of the policies of George W. Bush, including wa...   read more

With the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq in December and an exit from Afghanistan planned for 2013, many Americans are hoping that President Obama’s State of the Union promise of a large “peace dividend” will help lift the country o...   read more

The U.S. Department of Transportation and one of its agencies is being sued by the city of San Francisco for the deadly gas pipeline explosion that occurred two years ago.   According to its lawsuit, the city claims the department’s Pipeline and...   read more