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

Voters in Florida overwhelmingly (81% to 19%) approved a constitutional amendment seven years ago that gave victims of medical malpractice the authority to see reports on their own case or on other mistakes made by the same doctors who had treated...   read more

Coined nearly 20 years ago, the term “disease mongering” is still applicable today for what the pharmaceutical industry is doing to promote its blockbuster drugs among America’s “sick.”   In her book Disease-Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies,...   read more

The obsession with using unmanned aircraft in warfare has now shifted to the home front, where the federal government and local law enforcement are now using drones to catch criminals.   The first known drone-aided arrest took place in eastern N...   read more

Letting go of earmarks is one of the hardest things to do for U.S. House members.   The office of Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) contends in a new report that both Republicans and Democrats stuffed a major defense appropriations bill with...   read more

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top appointee is facing accusations from his fellow commissioners regarding his behavior, while the agency debates new—and controversial—safety reforms for the industry.   Four NRC commissioners, two Dem...   read more

In an unusual case, a doctor in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been arrested for an act of sexual voyeurism he allegedly committed from his own home.   Pediatrician Howard Weinblatt was charged on November 23 with four counts of spying on an unclothed...   read more

6=90,000,000. That’s the equation of inequality between half a dozen Wal-Mart heirs and 90 million Americans.   Using 2007 data from the Federal Reserve, Sylvia Allegretto, deputy chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Univer...   read more

The net worth of Americans suffered a blow over the summer, when the collective value of their properties and assets declined 4% to $57.4 trillion ($498,751 per household). The drop was the worst since the middle of the financial crisis in Septemb...   read more

Pressured by Christian fundamentalists, the home improvement chain Lowe’s has pulled its advertisements from TLC’s All-American Muslim television program.   Lowe’s withdrew its ads after the Florida Family Association launched a campaign against...   read more

For opposing the use of birth control pills made by Bayer, a consumer advocate has lost his voting power on a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel.   Sid Wolfe, head the Public Citizen Health Research Group, was a full member of the...   read more

Jacinth Lorna Henry-Martin has served as ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis since February 2011. St. Kitts and Nevis is the smallest independent nation in the Americas in both area and populatio...   read more

How much did the Federal Reserve really spend to bail out Wall Street? The estimates vary widely, although all of them fall into the trillions.   Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke claims the total was $1.2 trillion. Bloomberg says it was $7.77 trillio...   read more

Over the past six years of war, the expense of delivering fuel to America’s fighting machine in remote parts of Afghanistan has increased 50-fold.   It now costs on average of $400 a gallon to keep planes, tanks and other fuel-dependent machin...   read more

The federal government is not getting the disclosure it had hoped for clinical trials when it mandated four years ago that researchers register studies of prescription drugs and report results on ClinicalTrials.gov.   Of the studies submitted ...   read more

Since August 2011, the Acting Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been David R. Shipman, who has more than thirty-five years’ experience in agricultural administration.   Born circ...   read more

Reverend Abednego Mandla Ntshangase has served as the ambassador to the United States from the Kingdom of Swaziland since May 1, 2010. Impoverished and landlocked, Swaziland is the only African country still ruled by a royal family. It is border...   read more