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

One problem with entrusting the secret transport of detainees to private companies is that the process may end up spilling information about clandestine operations, if issues of money arise.   This development now plagues the CIA, whose contra...   read more

It took eight years and five months, but the U.S. finally got through a month in Iraq without any soldiers dying.   There are about 48,000 personnel still in Iraq, but not a single one was killed in August, marking the first no-fatality month ...   read more

It was heralded as the first beneficiary of the Obama administration’s energy loan guarantee program, and it was supposed to demonstrate how green technologies and job creation could go hand-in-hand. But instead of being a shining beacon for the...   read more

Feed-the-meter has a whole new meaning in the German city of Bonn, where prostitutes working the streets must plunk money into converted parking meters before going to work.   In certain areas of Bonn where sex workers can operate legally, the...   read more

From the perspective of the board room, the fact that 25 corporations last year paid more money to their CEOs than they did in income taxes to the U.S. government is an achievement deserving applause.   But few people outside Wall Street are c...   read more

No shortage of potential controversy and trouble surrounds Exxon Mobil’s latest international oil venture involving a Russian state-run company.   On the surface, this is a story of a U.S.-based company making a deal to extract fossil fuels ab...   read more

Later this month the U.S. military will officially begin allowing homosexuals to serve openly. On the day this landmark change takes effect, gays and lesbians in two branches of the armed services will also be able to buy copies of a new magazin...   read more

In the wake of recent revelations that an undercover ATF operation designed to track illegal guns purchased in the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has lost track of more than 1,000 guns, Acting ATF Director Ken Melson was re-assigned to the Justice D...   read more

August found AllGov readers most interested in science-related controversies and court cases having to do with tobacco; responsibility for the September 11, 2001, terror attacks; and drug companies. In addition, one story from nine months ago, h...   read more

As it begins its phased drawdown of troops, the United States has experienced its worst month in Afghanistan in terms of fatalities after almost 10 years of warfare.   Sixty-six military personnel have died in August, surpassing the previous hig...   read more

More than a million gallons of oil-dispersing chemicals were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill of April 2010, and based on what was known about the products available at the time, it is probable that some of the dispersan...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to eliminate deadlines for replacing traffic signs in local communities, saying the mandates would have cost millions of dollars at a time when states, cities and counties are struggling to balance budgets. ...   read more

Kellogg, the world’s largest cereal company, is under fire again for allegedly selling healthy breakfast food that is anything but. In one case, a “natural” product was produced almost entirely with synthetic ingredients.   In a federal class-...   read more

The Department of Defense managed to consume nearly three quarters of a billion dollars by having to pay late fees on rented shipping containers used for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as for other purposes.   After reviewing federa...   read more

The post-9/11 years at the Department of Defense have seen an enormous increase in no-bid contracts, with the lack of competition approaching 50% during the first six months of this year.   Over the course of the last 10 years, the amount of m...   read more

The CIA is being accused of censoring an FBI agent’s book on the fight against terrorism in order to keep the intelligence agency from looking bad.   FBI agent Ali Soufan has written a memoir about his days as a counterterrorism expert from 19...   read more