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

Doctors routinely ignore the recommendations of a panel of experts when it comes to cancer tests for patients, particularly the elderly, resulting in Medicare paying for billions of dollars in services that are unnecessary.   Medicare spent near...   read more

The United States leads the developed world in child-abuse deaths, according to the organization Every Child Matters. More than 20,000 American children have died over the past decade in their own homes because of family members, with about 75% be...   read more

The tax plan that has helped catapult Herman Cain into being a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination may have originated in the video game SimCity.   Cain has proposed scrapping the current federal tax system and replacing...   read more

Kathleen Casey, a political appointee to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), spent portions of her time regulating Wall Street from overseas, according to agency records obtained by JunketSleuth.   The outgoing commissioner traveled to...   read more

The New York Times is suing the U.S. Department of Justice to find out what the Obama administration has been keeping secret regarding the Patriot Act.   After filing Freedom of Information Act requests and getting nowhere, the newspaper decided...   read more

While declaring the need to get more students to study science and engineering, Florida Governor Rick Scott said he would like to shift state funding away from some degree programs, such as anthropology.   “If I’m going to take money from a citi...   read more

Christina Jones, an African-American utility worker in Illinois, has been awarded $59,000 by a jury after she sued two police officers for arresting her in a white community while doing her job.   On August 16, 2005, Jones was reading electricit...   read more

Already under investigation for questionable billings, the hospitals of Prime Healthcare Services are also accused of fraudulently charging Medicare for a variety of unusual medical conditions that pay more than ordinary illnesses.   According t...   read more

A federal judge for the past eighteen years, Patti B. Saris has chaired the United States Sentencing Commission since January 2011. Created in 1984 to deal with disparities in sentencing in different states, the Commission develops sentencing guid...   read more

President Barack Obama has decided to do something about a cult-like rebel group in Central Africa that has terrorized millions with its atrocities.   Heading to Uganda are 100 U.S. military advisers instructed to help local forces there, as wel...   read more

For the first time, a high-ranking Catholic official in the United States has been charged in a child sexual abuse case. Bishop Robert Finn, who oversees a diocese of 134,000 members in Missouri, and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph ...   read more

Being the spitting image of Saddam Hussein has not served Mohamed Bishr well.   The Egyptian, who looks remarkably like the former Iraqi dictator, says a group of men in Alexandria tried to force him to perform in a pornographic film so they cou...   read more

Matthew Tueller, a career Foreign Service Officer, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Kuwait on September 8, 2011. He has served there previously on two occasions.   Born circa 1951 in Utah, Tueller grew up in in Europe, North Africa, and Latin ...   read more

Since March 2010, the ambassador from Nigeria to the United States has been a former history professor, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, who has already helped to persuade the U.S. to remove his country from the government’s “country of interest” terror...   read more

Local governments have been giving up for the past several years on putting fluoride in drinking water, due to budget issues and suspicions of the longstanding practice.   Over the last four years, about 200 communities have stopped fluoridating...   read more

About two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, an American oil tanker set out from Port San Luis, California, bound for a refinery in Canada with fresh crude. The SS Montebello got as far as the central coast of California w...   read more