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  • Donald Trump Has a Mental Health Problem and It Has a Name

    Tuesday, September 09, 2025
    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
  • Navy Prepares for Increased Arctic Role Due to Global Warming

    Tuesday, September 01, 2009
    Global warming may wind up giving the U.S. Navy a new job. With the arctic ice pack shrinking rapidly, the North Pole could be entirely free of ice during the summer season within just 20 years. Such a development would create a brand new sea lane...   read more
  • Forest Service Sued over Logging of Sequoias

    Tuesday, September 01, 2009
    The conservation group Sequoia Forestkeeper has sued to stop the U.S. Forest Service from logging 639 trees in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the southern Sierra Nevada in Central California. The logging has been proposed by government for...   read more
  • Wal-Mart Sued for Pushing Out IT Consultant Who Prayed in Men’s Room

    Tuesday, September 01, 2009
    All Mohammed Zakaria Memon wanted to do was pray five times a day while working as an IT consultant for Wal-Mart in their Arkansas-based corporate offices. But this rite of Islam was allegedly unacceptable to Wal-Mart, according to a lawsuit filed...   read more
  • 41% of Latinas Don’t Graduate High School On Time

    Tuesday, September 01, 2009
    Young Latinas do not lack for professional aspirations, but the inability of many to complete high school on time is preventing them from realizing their career goals. A new study sponsored by the National Women’s Law Center and the Mexican Americ...   read more
  • August Deadliest Month Yet for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    For the second month in a row, a new record high in combat fatalities has been reached in Afghanistan for the U.S. military. A total of 45 American service members died in August, surpassing the 44 killed in July, which was the previous high mar...   read more
  • From Migrant Worker to Astronaut

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    Although a shuttle launched into space travels thousands of miles, for Jose Hernández, the meaning of a long, arduous journey is all too familiar. Hernández, one of the six astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery, has had a remarkable success st...   read more
  • 20 From Camp Lejeune Marine Base Developed Male Breast Cancer, Blame Toxic Water

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    Less than 2,000 men are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year, compared with 192,000 cases for women. The rare occurrence of this condition in men has many wondering about the water supply at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, one...   read more
  • The Fate of Emmett Till’s Casket

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will feature the glass-topped casket that once displayed the remains of Emmett Till, whose murder became an early rallying point during the Civil Rights movement. Till’s...   read more
  • Bush Shoe Thrower to be Released Early

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who became internationally famous for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released from prison on September 14. The 30-year-old reporter was sentenced to three years in prison aft...   read more
  • Stimulus Checks Sent to Prisoners

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    It’s tough to spend money, and thus help stimulate the economy, when stuck behind bars. So then why were 3,900 inmates nationwide sent stimulus checks like most other Americans? That’s the question many in Washington are asking since the news brok...   read more
  • Chief Operating Officer, Office of Federal Student Aid: Who Is William Taggart?

    Monday, August 31, 2009
    On June 1, 2009, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed William J. Taggart to be chief operating officer (COO) of the department's Federal Student Aid office (FSA). FSA is a Performance Based Organization (PBO), which is intended to cre...   read more
  • Running the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to Cost $1.8 Billion a Year

    Sunday, August 30, 2009
    The gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq over the next two years will cause operational expenses at the American embassy in Baghdad to rise by hundreds of millions of dollars during that time. With fewer soldiers around to help provide secu...   read more
  • How to Read vs. Love of Reading Ends “Reading Rainbow’s” 26-Year Run

    Sunday, August 30, 2009
    Only Sesame Street and Mister Rogers have had longer runs on PBS than Reading Rainbow, which ended its more than two-and-a-half-decade broadcast history on Friday. The show, hosted by Lavar Burton and winner of two dozen Emmy awards, became a vict...   read more
  • Robocalls Bite the Dust…With Exceptions

    Sunday, August 30, 2009
    As of Tuesday it will be illegal for businesses hocking goods or services to use prerecorded commercial telemarketing calls—or robocalls—according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). An FTC ruling going into effect on Sept. 1 outlaws telemarket...   read more
  • Subprime Lenders to Rake in Government Billions

    Sunday, August 30, 2009
    In an effort to encourage banks that were former subprime lenders to restructure failing mortgages, in February the Obama administration approved the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that will dole out billions of dollars of taxpayer mo...   read more
  • Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners Petition to be Declared “Persons”

    Sunday, August 30, 2009
    The question of whether detainees held by the United States are “persons” under American law may yet again come before the Supreme Court, which already told a federal circuit court in Washington, DC, earlier this year to review its ruling that for...   read more
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