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

After waiting more than a year for her confirmation, Dawn Johnsen withdrew her nomination on Friday as head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).In a statement released by the White House, Johnsen blamed Republican oppositi...   read more

In the wake of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia, the United States’ worst mining disaster in four decades, media scrutiny has turned to the federal agency whose mission is to prevent such accidents from happening   The Mine S...   read more

Nearly 300,000 American troops have served three, four or more times in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, while cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have risen dramatically since the wars began. The possible correlation between these two facts ha...   read more

Ken Hayworth, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, has come up with an unusual potential form of immortality by preserving the human brain in a computer. Most theories of extending life, such as using experimental supplements or super-sensitive healt...   read more

Development of a nuclear energy program is gaining political support within Iraq, according to a research paper produced for the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. Norman Cigar, a U.S. Marine Corps research fellow, writes that “t...   read more

What do Oppenheimer & Co., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Fremont General Corp., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, State Street Corp. and Bank United Corp. all have in common? In addition to being financial institutions, they’ve each been sued f...   read more

Less than 7% of corporate fraud cases are uncovered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), based on an academic study of 216 instances of criminal behavior by companies. The analysis (“Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?”) determin...   read more

It’s not every day that Major John Bini, a U.S. military surgeon, dons body armor before going into the operating room. But he did just that after an Afghan soldier was brought in on March 18 with an unusual head wound—a nearly three-inch unexplod...   read more

Now is the time to revisit the New Deal’s Work Progress Administration (WPA), which was created 75 years ago, writes Mike Elk at Campaign for America’s Future. The WPA provided more than three million jobs for a struggling economy in the 1930s, gi...   read more

Former New Orleans police officer Michael Hunter has pleaded guilty in the ongoing trial of numerous law enforcement personnel accused of the September 2005 unjustified shootings of several residents and a subsequent cover-up. He is the first offi...   read more

President Barack Obama will have to overcome political opposition on the left and the right if he wants to shutter Guantanámo Bay and move its terrorism suspects to the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois. Republicans in Congress, led by Senate ...   read more

Chickens living on factory farms endure suffering described as “staggering,” according to an undercover investigation carried out by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). An HSUS investigator spent two months working inside four differen...   read more

Thanks to a business air-travel trade group, politicians, CEOs and even televangelists have been able to fly around the U.S. and the world without having to make their flight information available to the American public. But after a lengthy legal ...   read more

Four years ago the IRS created a special kind of agent to handle complicated collections cases. But these senior revenue officers are often not given any work assignments, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The IG’...   read more

Paying Uncle Sam on April 15 will not be a concern this year for nearly half of all Americans. The Tax Policy Center estimates 47% will not have to pay federal income taxes for 2009, due to low incomes or various tax breaks enacted in recent years...   read more

Labeled the first “high-value” detainee by the Bush administration, Abu Zubaydah was described as “al-Qaeda’s chief of operations and top recruiter” and “a senior terrorist leader and a trusted associate of Osama bin Laden” who supposedly was goin...   read more