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

Despite opposition from the Department of Defense and the nation’s top military commanders, the head of the National Guard will soon have a seat at the Joints Chiefs of Staff (JCS).   Legislation approved by Republicans and Democrats is now with...   read more

Ohio’s 16th congressional district is being scrutinized for its new boundaries following the state legislature’s September approval of a redistricting plan. At the behest of a top aide for U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, who hails from Ohio’s 8th...   read more

Big-money interests will not have to reveal their identity when spending on political advertisements during next year’s election, thanks to Republicans on the Federal Election Commission (FEC).   Democrats on the FEC pushed for new rules requiri...   read more

Christians in Xintan village in China’s Zhejiang province had their public Christmas celebration broken up by local police before it even began this week. After setting up a stage, banners and sound system in the village square, organizers were to...   read more

A panel of experts commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that most of the research involving chimpanzees is not necessary. According to the most recent count, there are 937 chimpanzees being used for research in the...   read more

Teenagers in the United States aren’t as big on booze as they once were. But marijuana is growing in popularity with the younger crowd.   This year marks the fourth straight year that marijuana use has gone up among teens, according to an annual...   read more

President Barack Obama on October 17, 2011, announced his intent to nominate Wendy Spencer to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees funding for Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, Learn and Se...   read more

Dr. Gregory L. Parham is the Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).  Parham, who became APHIS Administrator in April 2011, carries out the agency’s broad mission of conducting regula...   read more

When flight attendants aboard American Airlines planes announce it’s time to put away all electronic portable devices, at least two of them will still be in use.   In the cockpit.   American has decided to replace their paper flight manuals wi...   read more

The U.S. prison population, the world’s largest, got a little smaller last year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.   The total number of inmates in U.S. prisons from 2009 to 2010 decreased by 9,228, the first such decline since 1972. ...   read more

This year has witnessed the fewest number of prisoners sentenced to death since the U.S. reinstated the death penalty in 1976, while support for the death penalty fell to a 39-year low.   To date, only 78 death sentences have been imposed on pri...   read more

Dr. Julio Armando Martini Herrera, a career diplomat in the Guatemala Foreign Service, took over as Ambassador of Guatemala to the United States on August 5, 2011. He presented his credentials to President Obama on September 9, 2011.   Over the ...   read more

Appointed July 28, 2010, Mohamed Lemine Ould El Haycen presented his credentials to President Barack Obama as Mauritania’s ambassador to the United States on August 10, 2010.   Born in 1954 in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, El Haycen earned a degree at...   read more

The U.S. Marine Corps has been accused of pumping up the heroic story of Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.   Meyer was awarded the military’s most distinguished honor in September at a Whi...   read more

Democrat Jon Corzine of New Jersey has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the first former U.S. senator to testify in a Senate investigation, thanks to the scandal that has rocked the investment firm MF Global.   The Senate Committee o...   read more

An independent assessment of how public schools are performing under the No Child Left Behind law has found nearly half of them are failing to perform as required—a number that’s significantly lower than the total claimed by the Obama administrati...   read more