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

A leading contender for Egypt’s presidency who has run on an ultra-nationalist, anti-foreign platform has been disqualified from running because his mother reportedly is a U.S. citizen.   Authorities with the nation’s electoral commission said H...   read more

A new study from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy says the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement resulted in an unhealthy diet shift for millions of Mexicans.   Since 1994, when NAFTA went into effect, Mexico’s ...   read more

Despite complaints on the Republican presidential campaign trail about President Obama’s alleged bias in favor of government spending, in fact his administration has actually seen a contraction in the size of government, which has slowed the natio...   read more

Government inspectors of poultry plants are objecting to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s solution for revamping a flawed food inspection system.   Instead of federal inspectors monitoring assembly lines for unhealthy chickens, the USDA want...   read more

Banks currently control 95% of the small business lending market. Now they are lobbying Congress to stop credit unions from cutting into the market.   At issue is S. 2231, the Credit Union Small Business Jobs Act, which would raise the cap on th...   read more

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) allowed its employees to earn more than $700 million in unauthorized overtime over the past two years. Postal workers received overtime without approval from supervisors totaling $294 million in 2010 and $423 million...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General’s Office, which is supposed to investigate wrongdoing and corruption within DHS, is itself under investigation by the FBI, with its chief investigator, Thomas Frost, and his deputy, John ...   read more

A nation’s infant mortality rate (IMR) has long been widely understood to be an excellent indicator, not only of infant health, but of a people’s health and general well-being as well. Thus it is sobering news to read, in a recent report prepared ...   read more

An alliance of eleven environmental advocacy groups—including Appalachian Voices, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Sierra Club—sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Thursday, alleging that the agency’s ongoing failure to ...   read more

More than 65 years after the end of World War II, Germany’s national railway, Deutsche Bahn, has hired an American law firm and a PR agency to lobby against legislation now before Congress that would allow Holocaust survivors to sue European railr...   read more

The landlocked nation of Mongolia, sandwiched between Russia and China, has long been one of the most remote and least developed places in the world. Its progress toward democracy and economic development since the end of the Cold War will likely ...   read more

A first-of-its-kind study examining the movements of public housing residents into other city neighborhoods shows crime may follow them wherever they go if they relocate in large numbers.   After reviewing crime statistics in Chicago from 2000 t...   read more

Even the U.S. penny has a lobby, which helps explain why the costly currency is still around.   Some people in Washington want to do away with the one-cent coin, due to its costs of manufacturing. For every penny produced by the U.S. Mint, the g...   read more

Regardless of how the U.S. government wants them to self-identify, the vast majority of “Hispanics” or “Latinos” shun generalized ethnic categories, according to a new survey.   The Pew Hispanic Center found that 51% of Hispanic adults identify ...   read more

Rocked by the forced resignations of its past two administrators, the General Services Administration (GSA), which serves as the federal government’s lead acquisition agency, has a new administrator in Daniel M. Tangherlini, who is promising to ri...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service who has served before in Nepal and in neighboring India has been nominated by President Obama to be the next ambassador to Nepal. Peter W. Bodde was nominated on March 2, 2012, and is expected to be co...   read more