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

Gay rights activists were delighted by the news that President Barack Obama had chosen M. John Berry to lead the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As head of the federal government’s central Human Resources operation, Berry is expected to adva...   read more

A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad that they could be committing a sin by using ethanol or other automobile fuel that contains alcohol, the Saudi newspaper Shams reported.   Sheikh Mohamed al-Najimi, a member of the Saudi Is...   read more

If John Morton is confirmed as the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he will be a marked contrast to the last person to hold the post, President Bush’s appointee, Julie Myers. Myers was well-connected, but had little experience. Mo...   read more

The Justice Department publicly released nine highly controversial legal opinions, kept secret until now, which gave George W. Bush unchecked powers during his “war on terror.” The contents reveal that the Bush administration took the position bes...   read more

Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama’s second choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, is a political moderate who works well with Republicans and possesses wonkish understanding of health policy. But she did little during her time ...   read more

As Americans face an economic crisis that is worsening by the day, it is time to ask whether U.S. taxpayers can afford to maintain the estimated 1,000 overseas military bases that the nation continues to operate.   The Pentagon officially report...   read more

President Obama’s lawyers announced last month that he will be upholding Bush administration policy that forbids detainees imprisoned at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan from challenging their imprisonment in U.S. courts. This action raises the poss...   read more

The Salt Lake Tribune shines a light on a small but growing trend: refugees from Iraq who came to the United States to seek safety and a better life, but find so few opportunities in the U.S. that they are risking danger by returning to Iraq. The ...   read more

In testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Gordon S. Heddell, the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense, listed numerous appalling examples of wasteful payments to defense contractors, mostly dealing with the wars...   read more

If the third time is indeed the charm for President Barack Obama’s latest choice for Secretary of Commerce, then the administration will be getting one of the Democratic Party’s biggest advocates for free trade—and someone whose political career a...   read more

Five former executives of W.R. Grace & Co. appeared in court Monday morning in Missoula, Montana, for the opening day of the most important environment-related criminal trial ever filed against a corporation. For 27 years, W.R. Grace operated a ve...   read more

On February 24, the United States Mint released the District of Columbia quarter, featuring jazz great Duke Ellington on the tails side. This is the first time that an African-American has been featured on a general circulation (non-commemorative)...   read more

President Obama’s apparent nominee to be the nation’s new “drug czar,” Robert Gil Kerlikowske, has spent nearly 30 years in law enforcement, including a stint as a narcotics officer and eight years as Seattle’s police chief, during which he downpl...   read more

The Department of Energy cannot account for significant quantities of nuclear materials at 15 of 40 licensed locations, according to a report released on Monday by the Department of Energy’s Inspector General, Gregory Friedman.   More than 100 a...   read more

Although China has recently surpassed the United States as the world’s biggest CO2 emitter in 2007, new research shows that about a third of all Chinese carbon emissions are caused by the manufacturing of goods for other countries, particularly de...   read more

The Army Emergency Relief (AER) program was founded in 1942 as a non-profit organization entwined with the U.S. Army to help soldiers and their families in need. Traditionally uncontroversial, AER hands out loans, grants and scholarships, and help...   read more