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 Department of Justice has been doing a lousy job of informing other federal agencies about companies that have broken the law and are supposed to be barred from contracting work.   According to the department’s inspector general (IG), the Bu...   read more

Living without electricity is something hundreds of millions in India do everyday, and not just when the country’s shaky power grid collapses.   The world’s second most populous country garnered international attention this week when it experien...   read more

After spending years trying to debunk global warming, scientist Richard Muller has come to the conclusion that the earth really is heating up—and that humans are to blame.   Muller, a UC Berkeley physicist, co-founded the Berkeley Earth Surface ...   read more

Pennsylvania’s “Medical Gag Rule” faces a legal challenge in federal court now that a local doctor has sued the state to get the fracking-related law thrown out.   Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against the state attorney general, its sec...   read more

Putting the cart before the horse can have dangerous consequences if the cart is a nuclear power plant and the horse represents earthquake safety.   But that’s what has happened in Japan, where the government decided to restart some of its nucle...   read more

The prosecution of a Southern California college professor could have far-reaching effects on other universities and laboratory faculty.   Professor Patrick Harran and the University of California Regents were charged last year with three counts...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has retracted a suggestion that employees consider “Meatless Mondays” after the cattlemen industry reacted angrily to the idea.   In a recent internal newsletter, the USDA suggested ways for workers to r...   read more

Politicians from New York State want to rename the post office in Monroe and dedicate it to a fallen Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.   The plan is to honor Gregg David Wenzel, who joined the CIA after the September 11 terrorist atta...   read more

Voters in Los Angeles County will decide in November whether adult film actors should be required to wear condoms.   The initiative, approved for the ballot by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, was spearheaded by the AIDS Healthcare F...   read more

The 2012 drought has become a national phenomenon, impacting at a minimum some portion of every U.S. state and Puerto Rico.   As of July 24, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported every state in the country was experiencing “at least a small area sho...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pulled its proposed plan to require screening of chemical-plant workers for terrorist ties, a move that followed complaints from industry opponents of the plan.   Under the plan, chemical plants woul...   read more

A study from the University of Texas (UT) was heralded as an independent assessment that no link existed between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater pollution. But it turned out the report’s author was anything but independent.   The report (“F...   read more

As part of an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. government, a federal judge has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to release more documents relating to Cold War-era experimentation on American soldiers.   Judge Jacqueline Scott Corl...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the healthcare law could be used to challenge federal environmental efforts, according to one legal scholar.   Jonathan Adler of Case Western University recently wrote that the court’s striking down of...   read more

The proportion of Americans living in poverty is threatening to reach its highest level since 1965, according to numerous economists and academics. Poverty is spreading at a fast pace among the underemployed, the unemployed who have quit looking f...   read more

They cost consumers about $3 billion a year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) believes they are illegal, a bipartisan coalition of Senators has introduced legislation to abolish them, and President Barack Obama opposes them, but because federa...   read more