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

A feed additive given to pigs is considered so bad that officials in China—producer of harmful toys, building materials and other suspects exports—has banned it. But ractopamine hydrochloride, a drug used to keep pigs lean and boost their growth, ...   read more

Florida State Senator John Thrasher believes professors from public universities and colleges should not be able to serve in the legislature, citing a potential conflict of interest whenever lawmakers take up bills impacting these institutions. So...   read more

A three-judge appellate court panel in Washington, DC, has revived a lawsuit brought by families against two district police officers accused of using excessive force against children.   While observing the Caribbean Carnival Parade on Georgia A...   read more

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has accused the Obama administration of deliberately misleading the public about how much oil gushed from the ruptured BP well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.   Using the Freedom of Informa...   read more

Democrats in Congress were threatened last week by one of their former colleagues, ex-senator Christopher Dodd, who warned lawmakers they had better support controversial anti-piracy legislation or else risk losing Hollywood’s bounty of campaign c...   read more

The Obama administration is getting tough with employers who violate work-safety rules, imposing penalties never used until now.   For only the second time in the history of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, OSHA officials have ...   read more

The last U.S. Marine facing charges stemming from the November 19, 2005, Haditha massacre will lose some stripes, but not serve any time in jail after pleading guilty.   Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich entered a guilty plea on one count of derelic...   read more

Local, state and federal officials are investigating a century-old meatpacking plant in Texas after a local resident uncovered evidence using his unmanned aircraft. An unidentified man flying a small drone, appropriately called Exposure, captured ...   read more

A BP employee who worked on the Gulf oil spill cleanup is suing the company, claiming he was fired for refusing to alter data so BP could claim the cleanup phase was completed.   August Walter worked in BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, ...   read more

Although only five justices signed the majority opinion in United States v. Jones, in reality the entire U.S. Supreme Court agreed that the Obama administration went too far in arguing law enforcement does not need a warrant to continuously track ...   read more

U.S. border patrol agents are using drones, the same type in fact being used to fight the Afghanistan war, to locate illegal shipments of marijuana being smuggled across the Southwest border.   But based on the government’s own statistics, it re...   read more

In what it calls a win-win reform that will save money and improve food safety, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) intends to change the way it inspects poultry processing plants.   Critics of the plan say it amounts to privatizing food i...   read more

As part of his effort to boost the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama has ordered federal agencies to make it easier for tourists from countries with growing national incomes to visit American cities and travel spots.   Under Obama’s plan, the...   read more

In a nation that invented the “super-size me” option, it seems only appropriate that U.S. political campaigns would figure out a way to go mega when it comes to collecting and spending money on elections.   Beyond the political action committee ...   read more

Twenty-one railroad accidents since 2001 could have been prevented with new safety technology that the industry is fighting against adopting. Using GPS, wireless communications and central control centers, Positive Train Control (PTC) automaticall...   read more

Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes.   According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, approximately 4...   read more