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

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is coming under criticism for forcing public bus drivers to abandon their routes and transport anti-Wall Street demonstrators arrested for disorderly conduct on Saturday. About 700 protestors were arres...   read more

Over the past decade Hispanics flocked to Alabama and helped fulfill the labor needs of the agricultural and construction sectors. But the magnetism of opportunity that drew many legal and illegal immigrants to the state has suddenly reversed, res...   read more

A federal judge criticized the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for using “bad science” in assessing the potential impact that construction on California’s most important water supply projects would have on multiple endangered fish speci...   read more

With the help of millionaire Roxanne Quimby, conservationists want to establish a new national park in Maine to commemorate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.   Quimby made a fortune developing the Burt’s Bees line of...   read more

Last Friday’s high school football game in the small Michigan town of Pinckney was no ordinary contest for the hometown team. The game against state-ranked Grand Blanc also was part of homecoming, and the senior voted queen really made headlines...   read more

New state laws adopted around the country may result in more than five million eligible voters not participating in next year’s election.   The Brennan Center for Justice examined 19 laws (plus two executive actions) that were passed in 14 sta...   read more

Food imports into the United States are far outpacing the ability of the federal government to inspect shipments, leaving the nation vulnerable to outbreaks of food-borne illness.   A decade ago, the U.S. imported six million shipments of food...   read more

With solutions for a quick domestic turnaround unavailable, Washington policymakers are focusing attention on expanding the number of wealthy foreign tourists who visit the United States and spend their money over the next 10 years.   The enti...   read more

West Hollywood, California, (population: 36,000) has decided to become the first city to completely ban the sale of fur coats and any other clothing that features animal fur. The five-member city council is expected to officially adopt a measure...   read more

Europe is beginning to embrace the concept of a “fat tax” in an effort to reduce obesity and its associated health care costs. Hungary, with a 19% obesity rate, has had a special tax on candy for more than 85 years.  On September 1 of this year,...   read more

Wanted: someone to take over for a legendary mafia boss and the world’s most infamous terrorist.   The famed Ten Most Wanted list managed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has two vacancies these days, now that Osama bin Laden is de...   read more

The nation’s most populous state has decided to reject the Obama administration’s proposed settlement with large banks over their handling of mortgage foreclosures.   California’s state attorney general, Kamala Harris, said this week that a prop...   read more

Officials in the Customs and Border Protection service believe the United States has another border problem, this time with Canada. According to a U.S. government report, U.S. officers control only 31 miles of the almost 4000-mile border.   Th...   read more

New York City developer Tom A. Bernstein raised at least $100,000 for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and was rewarded with an appointment to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which serves as the Board of Directors for the U.S. Ho...   read more

A longtime Labour politician and former head of state, Mike Moore has served as New Zealand’s ambassador to the United States since January 2010.   Born January 28, 1949, in Whakatane, New Zealand, Moore was raised in Kawakawa and educated at ...   read more

The war in Afghanistan is going well for the West. Or things are steadily deteriorating. It all depends on who’s talking.   The U.S.-led coalition produced numbers this week that indicated violence is down in Afghanistan, especially in the sou...   read more