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

Is the United States’ side of the border with Mexico a region of dwindling crime and violence, or an exploding threat to American national security? Statistics would say it’s the former, but political rhetoric the latter.   A report from the FBI...   read more

If there’s one agency in the federal government whose secretive nature cries out for internal oversight, it’s the CIA. And yet it is this very same spy operation that has gone without an inspector general for more than a year.   Former CIA watch...   read more

Thanks to legislation pushed by President George W. Bush in 2001, Americans receiving wealthy inheritances this year won’t have to pay estate taxes. The one-year lapse in the tax has already cost the U.S. Treasury billions of dollars from just one...   read more

If President Barack Obama really does want to kick some ass over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as he told NBC’s Today show, the Clean Water Act might be just the shoe to use.   Legal experts believe the Clean Water Act could be a powerful weapon...   read more

Incarceration levels in U.S. jails and prisons are in decline, with state penitentiaries recording their first year-to-year reduction since 1972. But even with the shrinking numbers in jail and prison populations, the country still has more Americ...   read more

Luis E. Arreaga, a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister-counselor, was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 21, 2010, to serve as U.S. ambassador to Iceland. Arreaga’s selection follows last year’s failed attempt ...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Selective Service System was Lawrence G. (Larry) Romo, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. He was confirmed by the Senate December 3, 2009, and sworn in December 12. Since there ...   read more

The current administrator of the Farm Service Agency, Jonathan Coppess has been around farming and the agriculture industry his entire life, having come from a long line of farmers and worked on ag issues in Congress until recently.   Coppess, h...   read more

A measure to cut costs for school districts is proving to have unexpected benefits for students. More than 120 districts across the United States are currently experimenting with four-day school weeks, brought about by shrinking budgets that force...   read more

Described as “too little, too late” and a “joke” by survivors and advocates, convictions were finally handed down in India related to the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak that killed approximately 15,000 people.   Eight former executives of the compa...   read more

If there’s one thing both sides of the more than 100 lawsuits filed as result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill agree upon, it’s consolidation. Attorneys for the companies being sued—BP, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton—and the hundreds of plaintiffs...   read more

While Congress struggled to adopt national healthcare reform throughout last year and into the beginning of 2010, pharmaceutical manufacturers continued to hike the price of name-brand medications.   An analysis of drug prices by the AARP Public...   read more

As the CIA under President George W. Bush used torture techniques against suspected terrorists, the agency’s medical personnel assisted such “enhanced” interrogations through experimentation designed to improve the program’s effectiveness to extra...   read more

Corporations facing investigations and lawsuits as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are putting their financial largesse to use.   BP, which was leasing the Deepwater Horizon oil platform when it exploded and sunk, has retained the inte...   read more

Willing to secure local domains and fight alongside Western forces, many of Afghanistan’s warlords are paid by U.S. and NATO commanders as “private security” businesses—even though these arrangements are threatening to undermine the West’s mission...   read more

A majority of Americans now say they are okay with homosexual relations, making it the first time this level of acceptance has topped 50%, according to Gallup.   While support for gay and lesbian lifestyles has risen among many groups since 2006...   read more