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

With much of its surface covered in ice, Greenland continues to demonstrate the effects of global warming. And that’s not all bad, as far as the enormous island’s tourism industry is concerned.   Scientists from the United States recently notice...   read more

Hoping to fare better at nurturing the development of solar energy without enraging environmentalists, antagonizing financial interests and otherwise giving solar a bad name, the Obama administration announced a change in strategy this week.   I...   read more

Can the critics call it the second coming of the Peripheral Canal if the conduit used to divert water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for shipment to Central Valley farmers and thirsty Southern Californians . . . is a tunnel?   During th...   read more

With severe drought conditions threatening to drive up crop prices, many farmers want to expand operations onto questionable lands in the hope of making more money. To help farmers take on this risk, Congress is considering a new crop insurance pr...   read more

One of the biggest culprits of Internet spam has been shutdown by a coordinated international effort. But the victory may be fleeting, due to other troublemakers still in operation.   Grum, a botnet (a collection of security-compromised computer...   read more

The U.S. government is indirectly contributing to the nation’s obesity problem, according to one consumer advocacy group, by providing billions of dollars in agricultural subsidies that help produce junk food.   Apples to Twinkies 2012, a recent...   read more

Money laundering has been a routine part of global banking giant HSBC for years, according to a Senate investigation that zeroed in on the bank’s U.S. operations.   HSBC Bank USA, N.A., exposed the American financial system to money laundering, ...   read more

The U.S. Air Force has decided to lift its flying restrictions on the pricey F-22 Raptor after determining the oxygen problem pilots were experiencing was not related to the planes.   In May, the service limited the F-22 to low-altitude flights ...   read more

The Hamptons’ life of luxury has devolved into upper-class warfare replete with battles over helicopters and gargantuan mansions.   In what’s been billed as the (moneyed) fight of the century, as reported by Josh Harkinson at Mother Jones, bil...   read more

The Department of Defense is trying to fix what may be the biggest, ugliest accounting system ever.   So far, the Pentagon’s long-running effort to modernize its bookkeeping has incurred $8 billion in cost overruns, and is anywhere from two ye...   read more

Following protests in Northern California’s Bay Area against an Obama administration crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, the Los Angeles City Council this week voted to ban most such shops.   The unanimous decision was supported by th...   read more

Florida’s “stand your ground” law has been a popular defense for convicted, oftentimes-violent criminals who have used it after committing other crimes.   The Tampa Bay Times reviewed more than 100 “stand your ground” cases that involved a fatal...   read more

Guardians of U.S. government secrets are not part of some small circle of chosen officials. Rather, they are part of a very large one.   Individuals in possession of a security clearance from Washington now total more than 4.8 million, a new hig...   read more

Last year’s bickering between House Republicans and President Barack Obama over raising the nation’s debt limit was indeed costly, and not just because it resulted in the government borrowing even more money to keep Washington going.   By taking...   read more

Senior officials in the Afghanistan government have been named in a special human rights report detailing atrocities that took place during the 1980s and 1990s.   Compiled over six years, “Conflict Mapping in Afghanistan Since 1978” accuses 500 ...   read more

Americans may soon be getting checks in the mail, and they will have the federal healthcare reform law to thank.   One key, but little known provision of the Affordable Care Act, has to do with the medical loss ratio (MLR) and insurance companie...   read more