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

The United States spends more per person on health care than 13 other industrialized nations. But paying more has not meant getting more in return, according to a study published by The Commonwealth Fund.   In terms of health care expenditures, ...   read more

To understand how the wealthy 1% more than doubled its share of the nation’s wealth in the past 30 years and holds onto it, just keep an eye on Wall Street and the corporate CEOs. Today, American CEO pay is about 231 times greater than average wor...   read more

Under federal law, telecommunications companies are required to provide affordable phone and Internet rates to schools in low-income areas, as well as subsidize the cost of equipment and services. The program is called E-Rate, but the time may hav...   read more

Melvin W. Russell, who created a stir in military circles in January when he proposed moving the Pentagon-funded but editorially independent newspaper Stars and Stripes from downtown Washington, DC, to rural Fort Meade, Virginia, served as acting ...   read more

Marijuana has become the most popular substance to smoke among teenagers today, according to a survey by an anti-drug organization.   The Partnership at DrugFree.org found that 27% of teens said they had smoked marijuana within the last month. T...   read more

A large group of Asian-American fishermen have sued BP in federal court claiming the oil company discriminated against them when it hired locals to help with the 2010 oil spill.   Through BP’s Vessels of Opportunity (VoO) program, about 5,000 bo...   read more

A Vietnam Era veteran who started his cemetery career as a day laborer has risen to be the number one man at Arlington National Cemetery, the crown jewel of the national cemeteries, which conducts about 27 funerals per day. Patrick K. Hallinan was...   read more

The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), which manages the Transportation Department’s research and development programs with the goal of creating technologies that can be used to improve transportation, has an acting administ...   read more

Lasting upwards of 10 years, the “Enduring Strategic Partnership” between the United States and Afghanistan will take effect after American combat forces have pulled out of the war in 2014. But the long-term agreement could wind up being a very sh...   read more

President Barack Obama has proposed easing export controls on firearms in an effort to help American manufacturers boost their sales. But officials within the administration have objected to the controversial plan, which some say could result in a...   read more

At the very end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the prized Lost Ark of the Covenant is last seen disappearing inside an immense government warehouse, presumably lost forever amid thousands and thousands of boxes.   The same fate may have befallen th...   read more

Faced with runaway costs from housing too many prisoners, politicians in Georgia have decided to change the way the state deals with low-level offenders so that correctional facilities primarily house violent criminals.   Under landmark legislat...   read more

A Pennsylvania eighth-grade student and her mother won a battle after challenging school officials’ position that students must stand during the Pledge of Allegiance or else be punished for “disorderly conduct.”   Carolyn Raja sued the Brownsvil...   read more

Apple is a leader not only in technology but also tax dodging.   The world’s most profitable tech company has developed over the years creative legal ways (that other companies have followed) to minimize its tax hit with the U.S. government.   ...   read more

Officials in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have been touting their agency’s timely delivery of mental health services to veterans. It turns out those claims were greatly exaggerated.   According to the VHA, 95% of first-time mental-he...   read more

In an era when 97% of climate scientists believe that climate change is a serious problem, increasingly isolated scientific skeptics have turned to the skies to explain why the threat of global warming is much ado about nothing.   Richard S. Lin...   read more