Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

Tunisia’s Ambassador to the United States, Mohamed Salah Tekaya, presented his credentials to the State Department on October 1, 2010, and then to President Obama on December 7, 2010…only ten days before his countrymen exploded in a revolution tha...   read more

A U.S. federal court has ruled Rio Tinto, an international mining corporation, must face charges of genocide and war crimes for allegedly contributing to Papua New Guinea’s crackdown on indigenous workers.   A group of current and former residen...   read more

Seeking to head off any further attacks of hair and beard trimming, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into a heated quarrel among the Amish in Ohio that turned violent.   Sam Mullet, leader of a 120-member breakaway Amish grou...   read more

Clifford Stanley’s career at the Department of Defense has come to an end, with the ex-Marine general resigning before the completion of an investigation into charges that he was incompetent and tyrannical as well as overspent taxpayer dollars and...   read more

Steve Matenje became ambassador of Malawi to the United States in September 2010. He also serves as his nation’s top diplomat to Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia.   Born on February 17, 1956, in Zomba, Malawi, Matenje received a certificat...   read more

The tiny European republic of San Marino (population: 32,000), completely surrounded by Italy, is known for having the world’s oldest functioning constitution (enacted in 1600). Long associated with the United States, in 1861 the San Marinese admi...   read more

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed suit against the Department of Justice in order to learn more about a controversial interpretation of a section of the Patriot Act.   Both civil liberties group...   read more

The nuclear power plant in Japan crippled by a powerful earthquake and tsunami on March 11, released nearly twice as much radiation as the government claimed.   Researchers at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research examined dozens of radiation...   read more

Catholic officials have an embarrassment on their hands in Germany, where the country’s largest media company, Weltbild, produces pornography despite its 100% ownership by the church.   Within Weltbild’s mammoth book catalog are about 2,500 erot...   read more

The centerpiece of the Republican campaign to win over Hispanic voters in 2012, Marco Rubio has run into accusations that he has distorted his family’s history in order to appear more-anti-Communist. As part of his own campaign last year to become...   read more

Since July 2008 the Ambassador to the United States from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia has been historian Michael Louis, who also serves as St. Lucia’s representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).    Born in St. Lucia ...   read more

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to release a memo justifying the Obama administration’s forcing state and local law enforcement to participate in the controversial program known as Secure Commu...   read more

The U.S. military last week lost its first female member of a new elite group charged with establishing better relations with Afghan women.   Army 1st Lieutenant Ashley White was killed along with two other soldiers in southern Afghanistan by a ...   read more

“Occupy” protestors in Oakland, California, clashed with local police on Tuesday after the city moved to break up an encampment near City Hall, resulting in 85 arrests and half a dozen people getting injured.   The most serious was Scott Olsen, ...   read more

Citing mandates in U.S. law, the Obama administration has warned the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that it will lose all American funding if it votes to seat Palestine as a member state. UNESCO announced...   read more

Internet service providers (ISPs) are not cooperating as much as they did previously with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in turning over data about customers’ email and web browsing. The change has forced the FBI to spend more time in c...   read more