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

It is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, with a death rate 10 times that of construction work: tower workers. Nearly 100 of these climbers have died on the job since 2003, more than half of them working on cell phone towers and the rest on...   read more

Prescription drug abuse and overdoses are overwhelming state officials in Tennessee.   Nearly 18 million prescriptions for controlled substances such as OxyContin and hydrocodone (the primary ingredient of Vicodin) were dispensed in the state du...   read more

A career diplomat who has specialized in Asian affairs, including U.S.-Taiwan relations, will be the next director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and as such the de facto ambassador to Taipei. Christopher J. Marut, who served previousl...   read more

Chaiyong Satjipanon became Thailand’s ambassador to the United States on April 18, 2012.   Born on September 14, 1953, Chaiyong was educated in Thailand and the U.S. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (with honors) in political science and ...   read more

From the amount of money spent each year in the United States on law enforcement, one might assume crime continues to be a growing problem.   But that’s not the case at all.   Crime rates today are at their lowest levels in 30 years and the ra...   read more

John Brennan, counterterrorism advisor to President Barack Obama, has reportedly taken on the lead role in selecting which terrorists will be targeted for drone attacks or raids by the U.S. military or the CIA.   Brennan and his small team at th...   read more

The fallout from Facebook’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) now includes three lawsuits filed against the social media giant and the banks that helped it go public.   At least three shareholder lawsuits allege Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerb...   read more

Four years ago, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) was admonished by Congress’ watchdog agency to improve its performance, which presumably meant doing more work rather than less.   DCAA apparently thought the opposite.   In fiscal year ...   read more

A proposed bike path in Los Angeles has provoked a lawsuit against federal and state agencies by a group of homeowners complaining the project will violate environmental laws.   Attorney S. Zachary Samuels sued on behalf of himself and a dozen n...   read more

Warnings of Medicare running out of money have been around almost as long as the program itself.   Founded in 1965, the first projection that Medicare would become insolvent was issued only five years later by its board of trustees. Then, the wo...   read more

The year 2011 was the most active in four years in terms of strikes and lockouts across the United States.   There were a total of 19 major work stoppages in 2011 involving 1,000 or more employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BL...   read more

Parents may have a tougher time winning the argument with their children about the importance of attending college if their offspring hear the latest news from the U.S. Department of Labor.   As of April, the number of unemployed people (age 25 ...   read more

Earlier this year Milwaukee’s police chief, Edward Flynn, proclaimed crime had gone down four years in a row under his watch—an achievement that helped him become the city’s first chief in 27 years to secure a second four-year contract. An investi...   read more

After years of claiming no link between open-air pits of burning garbage in Iraq and Afghanistan and the health problems of war veterans, the U.S. military has documented that there may indeed be a correlation between the two.   In an April 2011...   read more

Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who ran a fake hepatitis B vaccination program to help the CIA find Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison by a regional tribal court in Pakistan. Afridi was not allowed to attend the trial or...   read more

At least one million parts used in U.S. military aircraft, vehicles and other hardware were produced by overseas counterfeiters in China and other countries.   A 14-month investigation by a U.S. Senate committee found Chinese companies were the ...   read more