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

Apparently the spirit of old the Wild West still exists in the present-day southwestern United States.   The U.S. Department of Justice keeps track of arrest-related deaths (ARDs). Of the five states with the highest per-capita rate of ARDs, fou...   read more

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck continues to pay a steep price for its former money-making drug Vioxx, a painkiller that once earned the company more than $2 billion a year.   The latest settlement for Merck originated with the U.S. Department...   read more

Eugenia Jennings of Illinois has become the first person to receive a commutation of sentence from President Barack Obama. Jennings was convicted in 2001 of selling 13.9 grams of crack cocaine to a police informant and was sentenced to 22 years in...   read more

In the midst of an ongoing economic crisis many economists blame on reckless behavior by banks and other Wall Street financial players, President Barack Obama on July 2, 2011, named an experienced state-level bank regulator to serve as the new C...   read more

The southwest African nation of Angola has sent its fourth ambassador to the United States since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1993. Alberto do Carmo Bento Ribeiro, an engineer and experienced diplomat recently called the U...   read more

Protesters in Egypt are once again being subjected to tear gas made in the U.S.A.   Demonstrators rallying against the military dictatorship told the British media that spent tear-gas cartridges used by police bear the name and address of Combin...   read more

It’s not difficult for mentally ill individuals to get past federal gun-control barriers designed to stop these very same people from buying handguns.   The 13-year-old, FBI-run National Instant Criminal Background Check System is supposed to ...   read more

In addition to handling the Obama administration’s diplomatic responsibilities, the State Department is also working on debunking conspiracy theories. On its suspended website (America.gov), the agency provides a section called: “Conspiracy Theori...   read more

Spurred on by a powerful politician, lawmakers in Uttar Pradesh, India, want to divide the world’s most populous state into four smaller states.   With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh is larger than all but five countries in the world. By comp...   read more

Withdrawing from Iraq has meant new missions for U.S. combat units and military hardware.   American commanders are negotiating with Kuwait to allow about 3,500 troops to redeploy to the Gulf emirate. The country already hosts 20,000 U.S. servic...   read more

American diplomats are lobbying for changes to the international treaty banning cluster bombs so the U.S. and other major military powers can join the protocol without actually giving up the deadly weapons. Cluster munitions are designed to burst ...   read more

Members of Congress looking to eliminate waste and redundancy from the federal government received some powerful news last week from the Department of Energy’s inspector general.   IG Gregory Friedman issued a report that makes a strong case for...   read more

Pakistan’s telecommunications industry is roiling over orders from the government to ban nearly 1,700 “obscene” words from text messages, 586 in Urdu and 1,109 in English.   The state-run Pakistan Telecommunications Authority ordered mobile phon...   read more

Washington, DC’s prestigious media club has suspended one of its members for taking a Saudi prince to task during a press conference. Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia is a former director of the Saudi intelligence agency and ambassador to th...   read more

In an effort to counterbalance China’s growing military prowess, the U.S. is working to station naval and Marine forces in the Asia-Pacific region.   The most controversial move, as far as the Chinese are concerned, is the decision to base some ...   read more

The U.S. housing market may be in for yet another crush of foreclosures, according o the Center for Responsible Lending.   About 2.7 million households that took out mortgages between 2004 and 2008 have already lost their homes to foreclosure. N...   read more