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

Candidates who go negative during a political campaign run the risk of a backlash from voters.   But if a so-called independent group can sling your mud for you, then going negative is a much more successful strategy, according to two professors...   read more

Proving once again the adage that wealth has no patriotism, billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid a hefty tax bill when Facebook goes public on May 18.   Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1982, S...   read more

Catch-22 is alive and well at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, with an able assist last week from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. In Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22, under Army Rule Catch-22 a crazy pilot could be grounded ...   read more

The presidential practice of handing out plum ambassador assignments to major political donors who have few or none of the qualifications to serve in such posts is alive and well in the Obama administration, just as it was in that of George W. Bus...   read more

On May 7, U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter announced to his embassy staff in Pakistan that he’d be quitting in the summer after serving less than two years on the job. Tensions have been rising between the United States and Pakistan recently, but an...   read more

 Getting a full-time job is toughest these days for those in their twenties.   According to a new Gallup poll, 32% of young workers (age 18-29) are underemployed, a category that combines the unemployed with individuals who are working part-time...   read more

Americans love their credit cards, some more than others.   Residents of Arkansas and New Jersey currently have the heaviest credit card debts, according to the Federal Reserve. Arkansans carry an average of $4,060 per person, making their state...   read more

Victims of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attack in Pakistan have filed two lawsuits in a Pakistani court demanding that their government seek criminal prosecution for those responsible for killing 50 civilians.   The lawsuits (known ...   read more

Things are heating up in the United States. Over the past 12 months, the average national temperature reached the highest ever recorded since the government began keeping track in 1895.   From May 2011 to April 2012, the nationally averaged temp...   read more

Americans with and without health insurance are increasingly finding health care too expensive to see a doctor in a timely manner, according to a new study.   In 2000, one out of eight adults said they had “unmet medical” needs due to cost issue...   read more

 Parents of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only U.S. soldier being held prisoner in Afghanistan, have said election-year politics are getting in the way of President Barack Obama negotiating their son’s release.   Captured in 2009, Bergdahl is...   read more

It took 321 days for the FBI to fill the 10th spot on their Ten Most Wanted List left open by the arrest last year of Whitey Bulger…but only one day to close the case. Adam Mayes’ inclusion on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s fugitive list ...   read more

Viviette Applewhite, 93, of Philadelphia has become the face of a civil liberties lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania for requiring voters to show identification before voting. The new requirement was signed into law by Republican Governor T...   read more

They have spent less time in the Oval Office than their conservative counterparts over the last five decades, but Democratic presidents have presided over better private sector job growth than Republicans.   Bob Drummond at Bloomberg analyzed 50...   read more

Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Air Force isn’t supposed to spy on Americans. But the secretary of the Air Force, Michael Donley,  has decided the service’s drones can conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” of people in the U.S. for a limite...   read more

RBS Citizens bank is being sued for allegedly taking advantage of customers when they mistakenly low-ball the amounts of their deposits, resulting in the bank keeping the difference.   In a federal class action lawsuit, lead plaintiff Todd Bower...   read more