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

Whites today enjoy considerable economic advantage over the largest minority groups in the United States—a disparity that's expected to exist far into the future even as Caucasians shrink in numbers and no longer represent a majority of the Americ...   read more

Budgetary plans by the Department of Defense demonstrate that the U.S. military plans to spend heavily this decade on unmanned aircraft.   Between now and 2020, the Pentagon intends to spend nearly $36.9 billion on a variety of drones. Two of th...   read more

Activists who expose animal abuses on factory farms face the risk of being prosecuted as domestic terrorists.   Using the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in November 2006, the Federal...   read more

Providing a glimpse into themes that may animate his third State of the Union Address and 2012 re-election campaign, President Obama announced January 13 that he wants to re-organize the federal bureaucracy to increase its effectiveness and cut co...   read more

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a pro-big business group that, along with sibling organizations also funded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has spent millions advocating against health care reform, labor unions, federal stimulus sp...   read more

Georgia leads the nation for dirty power plants, which are the primary source for greenhouse gases like CO2, methane and nitrous oxide. To put things into perspective, for cars to produce as much planet-baking CO2 as U.S. coal-fired power plants d...   read more

Having led the government watchdog that behaved more like a lap pup around industry, Walter Lukken is now set with a lucrative lobbying job—for the same businesses he was  once supposed to regulate.   Lukken was the acting head of the Commodity ...   read more

The United States will soon have a new ambassador to the Caribbean island nations of Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. President Barack Obama nominated Senior ...   read more

Securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 of its 1,000 employees when its headquarters in Tower 1 (North Tower) of the World Trade Center were destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, has asked a federal bankruptcy judge to all...   read more

The state of Georgia has for years thrown into jail juveniles who have committed no crime. But to continue doing so could now cost the state millions of dollars.   Those spending time in jail are what is known as “status offenders”—runaways, tru...   read more

Chagrined by media attention on its plan to build four bus shelters at a total cost of $530,000, the small southern Oregon town of Grants Pass (population: 33,225) is set to cancel the project its city council approved only a few days ago. Althoug...   read more

Eklil Ahmad Hakimi, a former citizen of the United States, has been Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S. since February 2011.   Born in 1968 in Kabul, Hakimi graduated from Kabul’s Istiqlal High School in 1985, and earned a Master’s degree in En...   read more

George H. Sheldon is the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ACF oversees and finances social and economic programs for vulnerable children and f...   read more

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, is no longer the most deadly city in the world.   The infamous drug-war ravaged town has been passed up by San Pedro Sula in Honduras as the most violent place on earth.   According to Mexico's Civic Council on Public Se...   read more

The Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who arrested Mel Gibson six years ago, and endured an anti-Semitic rant from the actor, has won the right to sue his superiors over the way he was treated after the highly-publicized incident.   Officer Jame...   read more

A rare Australian horse fly has been named after one of pop music's most glamorous stars: Beyoncé.   Although others may make light of the decision, entomologist Bryan Lessard was sincere, if not a little cheeky, when he explained why Australia'...   read more