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

Republican lawmaker Curry Todd of Tennessee believes a person should be able to walk into a bar or restaurant serving alcohol and bring their handgun, as long they have a permit and don’t drink.   Todd, however, was unable to live up to his own ...   read more

Susan L. Ziadeh was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Qatar on September 12, 2011, for what is her eighth tour of duty in the Middle East.   The daughter of noted Palestinian-American scholar Farhat Ziadeh, Susan Ziadeh was born circa 1954 and grew...   read more

Since March 2010, the Ambassador from Gambia to the United States has been Alieu Momodou Ngum. Born August 12, 1950, in Gambia, which was a British colony at the time, Ngum grew up and received his secondary education there. Leaving the country fo...   read more

While the South has made considerable progress in numerous areas, many of its states continue to lag behind the rest of the United States.   A new report from the Center for a Better South demonstrates how the 11-state region still has challenge...   read more

A chlorinated solvent used for three decades at a U.S. Marine Corps base has been deemed a carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), confirming the suspicions of those who contracted rare illnesses after living on the base.   ...   read more

Support for capital punishment has weakened among Americans, down to its lowest levels since the Nixon administration.   A new Gallup survey found 61% still approve of using the death penalty for persons convicted of murder. Last year, however, ...   read more

It may end up costing at least $7 billion just for the Department of Defense to fix its byzantine accounting system, so military leaders and lawmakers can actually know what the Pentagon is doing with its money.   The Defense Department has alre...   read more

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s financial woes have the city teetering and local leaders battling each other over how to address the situation.   The City Council on Wednesday voted 4-3 to file for bankruptcy, due to the staggering debt of $400 milli...   read more

The first prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians in more than 25 years was overshadowed by the disproportionate ratio of the deal.   For one Israeli soldier, Sgt. Gilad Shalit, Israel agreed to let go more than 1,000 Hamas fighters....   read more

After not paying its utility bill in full for five years, the struggling city of Highland Park, Michigan (population: 11,776), is so bad off that it is tearing out the majority of its street lights—and in the process exposing its residents to a he...   read more

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman of Chechnya, enjoyed quite a birthday celebration last week that included singers, renowned musicians and Hollywood film stars Hilary Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme.   Human rights organizations publicly chastized ...   read more

Exploring WikiLeaks’ more than 250,000 confidential State Department cables has been made easier by a group of European computer experts. Cablesearch is a new search engine created by the European Center of Computer Assisted Reporting. The “Google...   read more

Stephen Patrick has spent the past three years collecting a paycheck from the federal government while not doing the job for which he was hired, because his supervisors can’t decide what to do with him following his professional transgressions. ...   read more

Decades of adopting tougher sentencing laws in the U.S., including mandatory minimum sentences, have had the effect of magnifying the power of local prosecutors, who have intimidated defendants into accepting deals and avoiding trials altogether...   read more

The nonprofit Center for Food Safety has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change its regulations and require all food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to bear labels informing consumers of this fact.   Current...   read more

AllGov has received numerous requests for practical information about how to obtain military records. The good news is that obtaining a copy of someone’s U.S. military record is now a request away from the National Archives, for veterans or thei...   read more