Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

Following in the footsteps of other large cities, Indianapolis may start charging the hosts of major public events for police protection. With public revenues at a premium, city leaders say it may be time to bill the Indianapolis 500 and other popular festivities that usually require significant security. The change could bring in $1 million in added monies for the city annually, which also hosts the Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration and the 500 Festival.   read more

U.S. sanctions against Russia have now affected the U.S. Air Force’s need for Russian-made rocket engines. A joint venture known as United Launch Alliance (ULA) between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, two of the nation’s largest defense contractors, has long purchased Russian RD-180 engines for American Atlas V rockets, which the Air Force uses to put military satellites into orbit.   read more

In return for CWE’s and other oil industry contributions, the NRA threw its support behind a controversial Republican bill, the Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act. The legislation was intended to expand natural resource extraction (oil, gas, logging and mining) on protected federal lands. The CAP report says more than 200 wildlife managers and scientists opposed the bill, as did representatives from eight sportsmen’s groups in Colorado.   read more

The predicted $470 million shortfall will have to be made up by taking money from conservation, recreation and other programs. The report said that in the past 30 years, the fire seasons have increased from 60 to 80 days annually and the areas burned have more than doubled to more than 7 million acres each year. Firefighting has also gotten more expensive because there are more people living closer to forests.   read more

BioWatch is a national system that is supposed to guard against an attack with biological agents. The Generation 3 version was supposed to operate autonomously, save money and guard against a large-scale outdoor biological attack. But in 2013, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revised its thinking on such attacks, saying they were more likely to be on a smaller, yet still deadly, scale.   read more

In 2007, Rogers won his first star, being promoted to Rear Admiral (lower half) and being named Director of Intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Command. Two years later, he was named director of intelligence for the Joint Staff, earning another star in 2010. Rogers was named commander of Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet in 2011. That job came with a promotion to Vice Admiral. Rogers was named Admiral when he moved to the NSA.   read more

The iP1 works in tandem with a special watch, and can’t be fired unless a five-digit code is entered into the watch, and the gun must be within 10 inches of the watch to operate. The primary market for such firearms is people who want to prevent children or thieves from using their gun. Gun-rights advocates fear sales of smart guns because they’re afraid they will be mandated.   read more

Owners of relocation companies and rental trucks looking for more business should open up shop in Illinois, Connecticut and Maryland. About half the residents of those three states wish they could move elsewhere, according to a Gallup poll. Where are people happiest? Hawaii (no surprise there), Montana and Maine, where only 23% of residents of each of those states say they’d rather be somewhere else. Oregon, New Hampshire and Texas followed closely at 24%.   read more

The family court judge ruled that Daniel Hament, a veterinarian who took the dog to work with him each day and treated it more like a dog, should keep the animal. Laura Baker, according to the court, “is more doting and treats the dog like a child.” The court acknowledged “that either party would provide the dog with a good life, but that it would be better for the dog’s routine to let it continue to go to work with Hament.   read more

One of his more significant cases was the successful representation of the drug maker Merck & Co. in a lawsuit dealing with its painkiller drug Vioxx, which was later pulled from the market after evidence showed that it increased the risk of heart problems for patients.. Another case Thompson handled was destined to spur criticism of him as he entered government service. He assisted a Navy lawyer in the defense of Omar Khadr, a terror suspect held at Guantánamo.   read more

Right-wing factions took control of the government in early 1980, forcing out Zamora and assassinating his brother Marrio. Rubén Zamora then fled El Salvador, staying in exile for seven years. Zamora was often a spokesman for the rebels fighting for control of El Salvador, whose government was backed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Zamora was blocked by the Reagan State Department from entering the United States during this period.   read more

The fenceline zone is one-tenth the distance of a vulnerability zone for a given facility. African-Americans make up 12.2% of the U.S. population, but are 21.3% of those living in fenceline areas, according to the report. Similarly, Latinos make up 16.1% of the general population, but 25.7% of those in fenceline zones. The numbers are similar for poor people. Those in poverty are 14.3% of the U.S. population at large, but 21.5% of those living in fenceline areas.   read more

Nearly 10 years after its dismissal, a $10 billion class-action ruling has been reinstated against a leading cigarette manufacturer accused of misleading consumers about “light” and “low tar” products. In 2008 the FTC rescinded a four-decade-old policy dictating how cigarette makers could describe tar and nicotine levels in their advertising and packaging.   read more

Information not being disclosed about these groups include: Names of their chief executive officer or board of directors; issues of national importance to which ads refer; and names of candidates that the ads are targeting. Groups that failed to be properly identified included those with both conservative and liberal points of view.   read more

From 2002 to 2005, Whitaker headed the Cuban Affairs Desk for the State Department. During a visit to Havana in December 2002, he met with dissidents and was expelled by Fidel Castro’s government. In 2005, he was named deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela, another country with which the administration of President George W. Bush was at odds.   read more

He had his first posting to the United States in 1997, when he was named counselor in the Cypriot embassy in Washington. He later was named deputy chief of mission. Chacalli’s first ambassadorial posting was in 2004 to Hungary. That posting was followed in 2006 by being named ambassador to the European Union, a post he held until 2010. Then, he was sent to Stockholm as ambassador to Sweden, with additional responsibilities of Norway and Latvia.   read more