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

Having watched their Republican counterparts rake in enormous sums from wealthy donors, five Democratic super PACs are now trying to do the same, only with rich Democrats.   The goal of the five Democratic super PACs is to receive donations rang...   read more

Federal officials based in San Francisco have indicted five companies controlled by the government of China, charging them with conspiracy to commit economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and attempted economic espionage.   The Chinese compa...   read more

A 90-day White House review of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) list of possibly toxic “chemicals of concern” has now taken 640 days with no end in sight. Although EPA administrator Lisa Jackson considers the list an important part of her ...   read more

Oil giant BP, owner of the “Deepwater Horizon” oil platform that exploded April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, won a major legal battle heading into the tr...   read more

 Hikers, picnickers and back-country campers won a major court victory last week recognizing their right to enter undeveloped National Forest lands free of charge. At issue were U.S. Forest Service rules requiring visitors to Mount Lemmon in the C...   read more

An American citizen who traveled to Libya in support of its revolution against Muammar al-Gaddafi has been prevented from returning to the United States by the U.S. Government–on suspicion of terrorism. Jamal Tarhuni, a 55-year-old importer from P...   read more

Even as some conservative politicians and Catholic prelates create controversy over the availability of contraception in health insurance plans, Pennsylvania’s Shippensburg University has been making the so-called “morning-after pill” available to...   read more

For the first time since the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the building of new reactors.   The NRC granted licenses to Southern Company to construct two new reactors at Plant ...   read more

After experiencing its highest teen pregnancy rates, the United States is now witnessing its lowest in at least nine decades.   In 1990 the rate of teenagers becoming pregnant (116.9 per 1,000 individuals) reached a modern high. Since then, the ...   read more

Demand for tubas and large brass bands that use them are behind a recent string of burglaries at high schools in Southern California.   Dozens of the bulky instruments have been stolen in recent months from areas schools, including Bell High Sch...   read more

Referring to President Obama’s birthplace of Hawai’i, the new ambassador from Micronesia recently greeted the President as a “fellow Pacific islander,” during a White House ceremony on January 18, 2012, welcoming new ambassadors to Washington, DC....   read more

Ignoring the wishes of their counterparts in the Senate, the House of Representatives on Thursday adopted an ethics bill that lets private industry consultants who take advantage of legislative intelligence off the hook.   The Stop Trading on Co...   read more

Recording police officers while making arrests has resulted in numerous other arrests … of those daring to tape such actions.   In October 2007 attorney Simon Glik was arrested by Boston police after he used his cell phone to capture the arrest ...   read more

America Online users beware: If you access your AOL account from a computer at an Internet café, your name may wind up on a terrorist-watch list.   According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), AOL users at public computer venues are j...   read more

 It’s no contest between gas and oil on one end and renewable energy sources on the other when it comes to government subsidies.   According to a detailed report by the International Energy Agency, the world’s nations in 2010 spent $409 billion ...   read more

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff has taken the Office of the Solicitor General to task for misleading the U.S. Supreme Court about recourse for wrongly deported immigrants.   “When the Solicitor General of the United States makes a representation to the...   read more