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 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking help from a federal court in order to force the California Board of Equalization to turn over records of potential tax cheats.   The California tax agency has refused to honor the IRS request to turn...   read more

Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al-Janko has been denied justice by the country that wrongfully imprisoned him for seven years.   The former Guantánamo detainee, a Kurd from Syria, sued the U.S. government after being freed in October 2009, and after Am...   read more

Regardless of what Congress says, President Barack Obama intends to do otherwise, according to the latest signing statement released by the White House on the Friday before Christmas.   Obama responded to the 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act...   read more

Recent economic times have been tough on most Americans. But for those representing the struggling masses, it’s been much easier to accumulate wealth.   The wealth gap between lawmakers and constituents increased substantially from 2004 to 2010,...   read more

A federal appellate court based in the South has gone back and forth over the expression “boy” as it pertains to African-Americans.   In September 2010 the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Alabama, Florida and Georgia, overturned a lo...   read more

After three decades of soaring numbers, drug-related fatalities have become nearly as common as deaths resulting from car crashes.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that poisoning deaths in 2008 exceeded the tot...   read more

Beginning in January, Connecticut will implement the nation’s first state mandatory paid sick leave for service employees.   The new law only applies to businesses with 50 or more employees.   Service workers will be able to accrue one hour of...   read more

To the benefit of weapons manufacturers, Police departments throughout the United States have been loading up on sophisticated weaponry and riot gear since September 11, 2001, thanks to generous grants from the federal government.   About $34 bi...   read more

For two years in a row, the United States has been subjected to an abnormal amount of extreme weather events, raising the question of global warming’s impact on the earth. But government scientists have struggled to gain approval from Congress for...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a legal opinion reversing its longstanding opposition to many forms of Internet gambling. The change could mean new revenue opportunities for cash-strapped state governments.   Officials in New York and ...   read more

In awarding a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton, the Department of Veterans Affairs rejected alternative bids that were millions of dollars lower, according to the VA’s inspector general.   Booz Allen’s submission for a 2010 information security c...   read more

The use of unmanned aircraft, made popular by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has now become a non-violent weapon employed by environmentalists.   In the Southern Pacific Ocean, the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd has utilized a ...   read more

When some Americans complain that foreign aid is wasting taxpayer money abroad that could be put to better use at home, they may not realize that today’s version of foreign aid isn’t what it used to be. Call it the Pentagon-zation of U.S. foreign ...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to eliminate a 1998 restriction on the sale of guns to foreigners, claiming federal law does not allow the government to have different gun-control rules for noncitizens.   In a letter to firearms dealers, th...   read more

Filing and completing bankruptcy proceedings is supposed to free consumers from paying any outstanding debt to credit card companies. But that hasn’t stopped Capital One, one of the leading credit card lenders, from going after bankrupt Americans....   read more

Many of those making the most money among U.S. government civil servants have an MD after their names, according to WikiOrgCharts.   Using data obtained from federal agencies, the company compiled a list of the top 1,000 earners in Washington, D...   read more