Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

A U.S. Supreme Court ban on executions of mentally-retarded murderers has not stopped Texas from keeping such convicts on Death Row. In Atkins v. Virginia, the high court in 2002 left it to states to decide their own definition of retarded, creati...   read more

The climate for judges and prosecutors who work for the U.S. government has turned dangerous recently. Threats have more than doubled within the past five years, according to a new study by the Department of Justice’s inspector general that examin...   read more

Ken Brown, a shareholder of Goldman Sachs, claims the firm is supposed to spend about 50% of its net revenue on salaries and bonuses. But in 2008 Goldman dished out $4.82 billion in bonuses despite earnings of only $2.32 billion..In the first quar...   read more

Have no fear “Lost” fans, the President of the United States will not be messing with your season premiere. Ever since the White House indicated that President Barack Obama might move back his State of the Union (SOTU) address from late January ...   read more

As required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, the Department of Justice conducted its first-ever study to determine how many minors are being sexually assaulted in prison. After surveying more than 26,000 incarcerated youths (91% male, 9...   read more

Sometimes a political contributor can give handsomely to the losing side and still come out a winner. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis is one such example. Daughter of a real estate tycoon and California political player, Tsakopoulos Kounalakis raised...   read more

As the South goes with its public schools so goes the rest of the nation, and that could lead to significant challenges for the U.S. economy. More than half of all public school students in the South are poor and members of a minority group—the fi...   read more

Exposure to lead at an early age can result in higher risks of committing crimes as an adult, according to researchers in Cincinnati, Ohio. Experts from the University of Cincinnati spent 30 years working on their study, following the offspring of...   read more

Some Republicans are taking revisionist history to a new and bizarre partisan level in their attempts to convince the American people that GOP leaders are good at protecting the country from terrorism, while Democrats aren’t. On Friday, former New...   read more

Like those who served before him in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama intends to disregard certain parts of new laws adopted by Congress—only in a quieter and less transparent manner. In the first half of 2009, Obama issued several “signing ...   read more

California Highway Patrol (CHP) Sergeant Richard Fuentes thought he had made a successful drug bust when he caught Saguro Doven, 33, with 60 pounds of marijuana in his car. But Doven claimed at his trial that he was transporting the pot as part of...   read more

The great Chihuahua airlift has begun. Flooded with thousands of the tiny dogs, animal shelters in California have made arrangements to ship Chihuahuas to the East Coast, where there’s plenty of demand for and little supply of the animals.   Rec...   read more

Specialist Marc Hall, aka hip hop artist Marc Watercus, was looking forward to the end of his U.S. Army service in February and never going back to Iraq, when commanders decided to “stop-loss” him—the policy that allows military officials to keep ...   read more

Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since July 2002, has been ordered released by a federal judge who said Hatim’s confessions of being a terrorist were tainted by torture. U.S. officials have insisted Hatim was part of al-Qae...   read more

When local governments need more cash, cities and counties look for new ways to raise revenue. Some municipalities have turned to shortening yellow lights at intersections in order to catch more people running red lights, and thus generate more tr...   read more

Today, there are only 100 panthers left alive in the state of Florida. The precariously low total makes the death of any of the native cats a cause for concern, which is why one conservation group is especially alarmed about the number of panthers...   read more