Donald Trump has a mental health condition known as narcissistic personality disorder. Here are some of the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. React with rage or contempt and try to belittle other people to make themselves appear superior. Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration. Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are. Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.   read more

The tiny European republic of San Marino (population: 32,000), completely surrounded by Italy, is known for having the world’s oldest functioning constitution (enacted in 1600). Long associated with the United States, in 1861 the San Marinese admi...   read more

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed suit against the Department of Justice in order to learn more about a controversial interpretation of a section of the Patriot Act.   Both civil liberties group...   read more

The nuclear power plant in Japan crippled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, released nearly twice as much radiation as the government claimed.   Researchers at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research examined dozens of radiation...   read more

Catholic officials have an embarrassment on their hands in Germany, where the country’s largest media company, Weltbild, produces pornography despite its 100% ownership by the church.   Within Weltbild’s mammoth book catalog are about 2,500 erot...   read more

The centerpiece of the Republican campaign to win over Hispanic voters in 2012, Marco Rubio has run into accusations that he has distorted his family’s history in order to appear more-anti-Communist. As part of his own campaign last year to become...   read more

Since July 2008 the Ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia has been historian Michael Louis, who also serves as St. Lucia’s representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).    Born in St. Lucia ...   read more

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to release a memo justifying the Obama administration’s forcing state and local law enforcement to participate in the controversial program known as Secure Commu...   read more

The U.S. military last week lost its first female member of a new elite group charged with establishing better relations with Afghan women.   Army 1st Lieutenant Ashley White was killed along with two other soldiers in southern Afghanistan by a ...   read more

“Occupy” protestors in Oakland, California, clashed with local police on Tuesday after the city moved to break up an encampment near City Hall, resulting in 85 arrests and half a dozen people getting injured.   The most serious was Scott Olsen, ...   read more

Citing mandates in U.S. law, the Obama administration has warned the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that it will lose all American funding if it votes to seat Palestine as a member state. UNESCO announced...   read more

Internet service providers (ISPs) are not cooperating as much as they did previously with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in turning over data about customers’ email and web browsing. The change has forced the FBI to spend more time in c...   read more

Affirming what other reports from academics have said, the past three decades witnessed the rich greatly expand their earnings and share of the nation’s income, while the middle-class and poor enjoyed far smaller gains.   The non-partisan Congre...   read more

If it’s not American gangs infiltrating the ranks of the U.S. military, it’s the U.S. government infiltrating the ranks of Mexican cartels.   For the U.S. Army and its auxiliary groups, keeping gangbangers out of the service has become a serious...   read more

Americans have had nearly 11 years to think it over and they’re still of the opinion that the Electoral College needs to go.   Following the deadlocked 2000 presidential contest, voters learned all about the Electoral College’s role in electing ...   read more

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the U.S. campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, have proven to be the ideal marketing grounds for unmanned aircraft, whose popularity is soaring to new heights.   Nine years ago the De...   read more

Reliance on antidepressants has soared over the last two and a half decades, and Americans are increasingly getting these medications without seeing a psychiatrist or therapist.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates in...   read more