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

Once China puts people aboard its new space station, they may have to watch what they say.   The United States’ super-secret space plane, the X-37B, is currently orbiting the earth on a classified mission. Even though the government won’t say wh...   read more

The U.S. military may be done in Iraq, but at least one of its men is still waiting to resolve one of the war’s most controversial events.   Marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich is finally going to trial at Camp Pendleton in California on charges of v...   read more

Former history professor and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has said that two of the nation’s founding fathers would not have tolerated marijuana production and would have cracked down violently on growers.   “I think Jefferson or George W...   read more

Students who decided four or more years ago to major in nursing or teaching have fared a lot better in the job market than those who focused on computers, liberal arts or social sciences.   A new study by researchers at Georgetown University fou...   read more

Convicted of participating in the kidnap of a Muslim cleric nine years ago from Italy, Sabrina De Sousa has lost her bid to gain diplomatic immunity from the State Department, which she officially worked for but in reality may have been a spy.   ...   read more

Most Americans simply don’t want to think about the Iraq War anymore. But that is not an option for hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families.   Exactly how many U.S. troops died in Iraq is pretty well established: 4,487 dead. But det...   read more

Claiming there’s a right and wrong way to do it, a lawmaker in Indiana has introduced legislation that bans the inappropriate singing of the national anthem.   Republican Senator Vaneta Becker’s bill would set specific “performance standards” fo...   read more

ATF Training Exercise Gone Wrong Burns 150 Acres in Texas In Motley County, in North Texas, ATF agents decided to blow up a stockpile of explosives. Unfortunately, in doing so they also set off a grass fire that burned 150 acres before it was bro...   read more

Man Robs Bank to Get Arrested and Gain Health Care Desperate for care, James Richard Verone walked into his local RBC bank and demanded $1 from the teller. He then proceeded to wait for police to arrive and arrest him. Before doing so, he mailed ...   read more

Daouda Diabaté returned to the United States for a second tour as ambassador from Côte d’Ivoire in February 2011, part of a diplomatic offensive by the internationally-recognized President-elect Alassane Ouattara against incumbent President Lauren...   read more

Seeking to avoid adverse publicity, Johnson & Johnson allegedly carried out a “stealth recall” of its Children’s Tylenol—a move that cost the life of a two-year-old child, say parents.   The father and mother of River Moore are suing the drug co...   read more

Military logisticians will be keeping busy in the coming months as the U.S. packs up in Iraq and prepares to do the same thing in Afghanistan.   In Iraq, the U.S. hopes to move about four million pieces of equipment across the border and into Ku...   read more

The city of Salem, Missouri, is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for blocking access at its library to websites about minority religions.   Using the Netsweeper filtering program, library officials had classified informati...   read more

The legacy of Mohammad Salman Hamdani is filled with both acknowledgments and overt slights, demonstrating how an individual’s religious and cultural identity can obscure their heroism in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.   ...   read more

Coca-Cola is being urged to pull out of Swaziland, a small kingdom in southern Africa ruled by the notorious Mswati III, the continent’s last remaining absolute monarch. Swaziland produces all of the Coca-Cola concentrate for the rest of Africa, y...   read more

After a significant earthquake hit on New Year’s Eve, leaders in Ohio ordered the temporary closure of one natural gas-related injection well in the eastern portion of the state near Youngstown and the postponement of the opening of four more.   ...   read more