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

Now that advances in medical technology are making it easier today to perform extractions, a nonprofit group is fighting the federal government to win the right to pay donors for bone marrow.   Under a 1984 federal law, it is illegal for anyone ...   read more

In what may be the first of its kind, a congressman who once earmarked money for a local alternative energy project is financially benefitting from the very same project, now that he has left office   William Delahunt (D-Massachusetts) served in...   read more

Gun-rights advocates have lost their legal challenge in federal court to stop the Obama administration from requiring certain gun dealers along the Mexican border to report multiple sales of assault rifles.   Beginning last July, the Bureau of A...   read more

In a controversial decision regarding women’s health care, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has announced a final rule that requires employers that provide insurance coverage to their employees to cover contraceptives at no...   read more

In yet another case of drinking water contamination in areas where energy companies have engaged in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supplying clean water to some re...   read more

Thirteen disabled Idahoans, living with disabling and chronic conditions such as epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, Down’s Syndrome, schizophrenia, and developmental disabilities ranging from mild to severe, are suing the Idaho Department of Health and...   read more

United States government pension plans pay out more than $70 billion a year to about 1.8 million retired federal workers. But not all government retirees are created equal. According to data acquired by Bloomberg News through the Freedom of Inform...   read more

Major European space contractors and space agencies recently began work on NEOShield, a three-and-a-half-year project to study how best to protect the earth from a devastating collision with an asteroid or other Near Earth Object (NEO). Although t...   read more

Washington State’s open-primary law has withstood a key legal challenge in federal court, giving hope to reformers opposed to the two-party system that has dominated elections.   Approved by voters in 2004, it immediately came under legal attack...   read more

In an era when budget cuts have crippled police protection in some cities, the tiny village of Woodmere, Ohio, which employs nine officers to serve and protect only 884 residents (one of the highest ratios in the country) is on the verge of elimin...   read more

The state of Vermont's effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority.   In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Statio...   read more

Economic recovery is still a long way away for the vast majority of U.S. cities, according to a new report produced for city mayors and urban proponents.   Of the 363 metropolitan areas that lost jobs during the Great Recession, only 26 so far h...   read more

Like other presidents before him, President Barack Obama has made sure to reward those individuals who help collect money for his presidential campaign.   An investigation by the Center for Public Integrity found that hundreds of "bundlers" (peo...   read more

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on December 8, 2011, named veteran diplomat Reuben Barrie Walkley, who has served in seven African countries and been the principal U.S. representative to three of them, as Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region...   read more

Appointed acting administrator on May 15, 2011, Suzanne Heinen has served more than 25 years with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), the lead agency in international activities to develop foreign markets for U.S. agriculture. FAS is primarily...   read more

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took a break from his campaign to come out in opposition to the bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve that allows the indefinite detention of any terrorism suspect, including Am...   read more