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

Zackery Clement pushed things a little too far with his workers compensation claim.   After sustaining a hernia injury on the job when a refrigerator he was moving in March 2009 fell on him, he was granted two years of disability benefits and me...   read more

In defending the U.S. military’s medical system in court, the U.S. Department of Justice is arguing that service personnel and their families are not allowed to sue for medical malpractice regardless of the circumstance.   As a general rule, mil...   read more

At first it seemed like just another example of a politician acting badly. At about 10 p.m. on January 25, Colorado State Representative Laura Bradford (R-Collbran) was pulled over for making an illegal turn at an intersection. The officer smelled...   read more

Advances in forensics, commonly used for years now involving DNA evidence, are now expanding into the area of arson. This scientific development could give certain criminals convicted of starting fires new grounds to challenge their sentences.   ...   read more

High school student and cancer survivor J.T. Gaskins of Grand Blanc, Michigan, was suspended by school officials at the Madison Academy on January 23 for having long hair.   What makes this story news is that Gaskins, who fought leukemia until...   read more

An adult film company based in California has filed suit in New York to obtain the identities of individuals who illegally downloaded one of its pornography movies.   Digital Sin wants to track down at least 176 IP addresses of people who used B...   read more

For anyone with limited education, the federal government is the place to go for a job.   According to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal civil servants with only a high school diploma earned 21% more, on average, t...   read more

This year’s just-concluded Republican primary in Florida will go down as the most expensive, and nasty, in state history.   Determined to stop Newt Gingrich’s momentum after winning South Carolina, Mitt Romney’s super PAC, Restore Our Future, sp...   read more

Republican and Democratic budget leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing to give the president line-item veto power, something that’s been discussed, and tried, in the past. According to current law, if the president of the Unit...   read more

“All-white neighborhoods are effectively extinct. A half-century ago, one-fifth of America’s urban neighborhoods had exactly zero black residents. Today, African-American residents can be found in 199 out of every 200 neighborhoods nationwide. The...   read more

For tourists Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Bunting, their trip to the U.S. never got past the airport in Los Angeles. That’s because security officials detained the couple after some tweets from Van Bryan alarmed the Department of Homeland Security. ...   read more

After nine employees went to Congress to complain about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of unsafe medical devices, the FDA spied on the whistleblowers for two years, according to a lawsuit file by six of them.   The scientists ...   read more

Borrowing a page from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks that bet against investments sold to investors, mortgage giant Freddie Mac is banking that Americans won’t be able to refinance their homes—even though making refinancing easier is on...   read more

From the White House to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), nearly 280,000 federal employees owe the government back taxes, which collectively total $3.42 billion.   Among those behind on paying the IRS are 36 aides to President Barack Obama, wh...   read more

Defense contractor Boeing stands to make even more money off its “bunker-buster” bomb, which the U.S. may be planning to use against Iran.   To date, Boeing has taken in about $330 million from the Department of Defense to develop 20 of the 30,0...   read more

Agricultural chemicals may be partly responsible for the massive die-off of honeybees in the U.S., according to researchers at Purdue University. Entomologists have found the presence of neonicotinoid insecticides, which are used on corn and soybe...   read more