Trump Administration
- 14 high dollar donors to Trump’s inaugural fund have been nominated to be ambassadors. [Link]
- Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen resigns. [Link]
Criminal Justice
- A Texas inmate was forced to use a blanket he was allergic to for ten years. The inmate made several requests for a cotton blanket before filing a lawsuit. [Link]
- Arizona police officers forcibly remove a two-year-old child from his the home because a doctor was concerned about a fever. [Link]
- The family of a seven-year-old girl – who was killed by a police officer – was awarded over $8 million by Detroit. [Link]
- Chelsea Manning remains in jail for refusing to testify in a secret federal court. [Link]
US Military
- Recent testing shows some US troops are slowing being lead poisoned. [Link]
- Two Marines died in a helicopter crash in Arizona. [Link]
- Over a million American men have suffered for failing to register for the draft. [Link]
NATO
- Doug Bandow argues that building an American military base in Poland encourages European countries to take less responsibility for their own defense. [Link]
- Gilbert Doctorow explains NATO now exists without a real mission. [Link]
- James Carden explains NATO lost its purpose when the Cold War ended. NATO is now causing unnecessary confrontations with Russia. [Link]
- Col Douglas Macgregor: NATO is a Zombie
