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

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which provides a variety of insurance options for qualified loans on existing homes, home construction and repair, and is also responsible for regulation ...   read more

The federal agency responsible for helping refugees around the world either through assistance to international and non-governmental organizations or by admitting them to the United States will soon have a new leader with years of experience at th...   read more

The wealthy and the poor in U.S. society are not getting along, according to a large majority of Americans. A new Pew Research Center survey revealed that 66% of the public believes there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the upper a...   read more

Seeking to ensure the protection of top Republican and Democratic politicos, the U.S. government has funneled $100 million to the host cities of this year’s presidential nominating conventions. This calls into question why the 42% of Americans who...   read more

Not since 1965 has the list of the leading causes of death in the U.S. not included homicides. But last year murders did indeed fall from the list, thanks to both a declining homicide rate and a rising number of deaths from certain diseases. Repla...   read more

Exposed for having sterilized thousands of welfare recipients without their consent, the state of North Carolina is considering compensation for its victims.   The sterilizations occurred as part of a 20th century eugenics program that lasted fr...   read more

Having become the butt of jokes across the Internet, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) decided to address the issue of “cupcakegate” on its blog.   Last month, passenger Rebecca Hains, a professor at Salem State University in Mass...   read more

When a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel of experts voted 15-11 last month to allow the continued marketing of potentially harmful birth-control pills by Bayer, it did not reveal that several members were financially tied to the drug manufa...   read more

Where once there were 17 major investment banks on Wall Street, there now are only five.   During the financial crisis, stalwarts such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Merrill Lynch crumbled, leaving behind Goldman Sachs, Morga...   read more

Photographer Laura Leigh has taken her legal battle to gain access to wild horse roundups by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Leigh is a credentialed member of the media representing Horse Back Magazine. ...   read more

Rather than symbolize economic growth, the rise of skyscrapers often portend bad times ahead, says one property analyst. If this correlation is accurate, China and India beware.   A report written by Andrew Lawrence, director of property researc...   read more

Cheryl Jones got more than anticipated when she visited the Disciple Fellowship Christian Church in East St. Louis, Illinois.   During services on January 5, 2010, the church pastor laid hands on a parishioner who was then overcome with “the spi...   read more

In selecting Jacob “Jack” Lew as his new chief of staff, President Barack Obama has turned again to a former member of the Clinton administration to improve his White House operation.   Lew replaces William Daley, who was brought in only a year ...   read more

Using multiple shell companies to hide its identity, the nation’s second largest gas driller conned hundreds of Michigan farmers into signing gas and oil leases and then avoided paying them any royalties.   Chesapeake Energy Corp. pulled off its...   read more

As far as some companies in Sweden are concerned, America is the land of corporate opportunity—and worker exploitation. So why not take advantage of a business culture that seeks every chance to increase profits at the expense of U.S. employees. ...   read more

Taxpayers are increasingly covering the cost of training for a corporation’s workforce, without getting any long-term benefit in return.   For instance, North Carolina has spent a million dollars for 400 residents to learn skills for working in ...   read more