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

As many as 20,000 endangered rockhopper penguins are at risk in a remote part of the South Atlantic where a cargo ship crashed and split into two, causing 1,600 tons of heavy fuel oil to spill into the ocean.   The penguins live on the Tristan...   read more

Chile’s ambassador to the United States since June 21, 2010, Arturo Fermandois Vöhringer is an attorney, professor and lover of music who plays in a rock band.   Born on October 14, 1962, in Santiago, Fermandois graduated in 1987 with a law de...   read more

Ilhom Nematov has served as Uzbekistan’s ambassador to the United States since February 2010.   Born on May 1, 1952, Nematov graduated from Fergana Polytechnic Institute in 1973. He holds a PhD in economics.   From 1973 to 1978, he was the h...   read more

Nuclear waste from nuclear power plants has been piling up across the United States since the Eisenhower administration—a problem that politicians have failed to permanently resolve and must again address in the wake of Japan’s radiation nightma...   read more

Barely two months into their administrations, several newly-elected politicians have seen their approval ratings plummet due to early missteps or controversial policies.   For several Republican governors embarked on tough budget-cutting bluep...   read more

The anti-dictatorship movement spreading through the Arab world has now reached Syria, a nation with which the United States has had a mixed history—denouncing the Syrian government and military as supporters of terrorism, while at the same time...   read more

Banks are crying over changes in debit card fees set to take effect this summer, claiming the new federal restriction will be too much to bear and force them to offer fewer deals to consumers.   At issue are what’s known as interchange fees—th...   read more

For the first time in the auction world, China last year topped the United States and the United Kingdom as the biggest seller of art.   Chinese public auctions in 2010 accounted for 33% of worldwide global fine art sales (everything from pain...   read more

What once was the fourth largest city in America has turned into the fastest shrinking city in U.S. history: Detroit, Michigan.   New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that Detroit lost 25% of its population last decade—the largest de...   read more

The American public may soon learn which banks were bailed out with $3.5 trillion of emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the hairiest days of the 2008 financial crisis.   After a two-year legal battle, the banking industry lost its...   read more

What was intended to help improve the infrastructure of a poor developing nation has turned into a convenient means of moving lucrative narcotics toward the United States—and all paid for with American tax dollars.   Cutting across northern El...   read more

Bahrain’s monarchy, which has been brutally cracking down on protesters seeking political reform in the tiny oil sheikdom, has turned to two American public relations firms in Washington, DC, to help improve the government’s profile.   In mid-...   read more

There are a lot of reasons why couples divorce, but the problem that motivated the president of Guatemala and his wife is unusual…the desire to create a political dynasty.   Guatemala’s first lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, wants so badly to run...   read more

Only weeks before the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, government regulators approved another 10-year lease for the oldest nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant—even though warnings existed about the safety of the 40-year-old facili...   read more

Going green is a better idea than going to funerals, the U.S. Marine Corps has decided for its troops fighting in Afghanistan.   After realizing that Marines stood a 1-in-50 chance of getting wounded while retrieving fuel or water for units, s...   read more

The State Department is being faulted for refusing to block United Nations nuclear technology funding to countries that have been accused of supporting terrorism because it does not want to discourage other countries from giving to the program. ...   read more