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

American oil corporation ConocoPhillips has been accused of conspiring with the Chinese government to cover up a large oil spill in the Bohai Bay.   Activists say two spills occurred in June from oil platforms owned by ConocoPhillips’ China subs...   read more

Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah got into hot water this week with the Department of Homeland Security for disclosing the fact that there have been 25,000 breaches of security at U.S. airports since 2001, although it’s questionable the numbe...   read more

Montenegro’s ambassador to the United States since November 2010, Srdjan Darmanovic knows a thing or two about strategy, both the diplomatic kind and that used on a chess board.   Born in 1961, Darmanovic served in the former Yugoslavia’s federa...   read more

Robert E. Patterson, Jr. has been U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan since May 2011.   A native of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Patterson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College, MA and MPhil degrees from Columbia University and an MA ...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy new radiation-detection equipment at a cost of more than $300 million, although it has not fully tested the devices which may not work.   Once touted by the Bush administration as the answer to pr...   read more

Environmentalists loathe the rush to develop Canada’s vast oil sands reserves containing an enormous amount of crude and a wealth of potential harm to North American ecology.   Within the province of Alberta is an estimated 171.3 billion barre...   read more

Pirating on the high seas is not yielding the same results as last year, though not for lack of trying.   So far this year pirates have carried out 266 attacks, up from 196 incidents during the first six months of 2010. But the increased effort ...   read more

Appointed ambassador to Kenya in February 2011, Scott Gration spent most of his professional career in the U.S. Air Force, before serving as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Sudan—a job he bungled, according to critics.   The son of mis...   read more

Bayney Ram Karran has served as Guyana’s ambassador to the United States since December 2003. Concurrently, he has been Guyana’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).   Prior to becoming a diplomat, Karran spen...   read more

The ordeal of Rupert Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, rooted in illegal activities that took place in the United Kingdom, has now spread to the United States, where members of a prominent publishing family are expressing regrets over their dealing...   read more

The federal government is attempting to establish voluntary guidelines—voluntary—for companies to follow when it comes to food marketed to children. The standards would not be enforceable by federal regulators, who merely seek healthier nutrition ...   read more

Scott Bloch, the one-time special counsel to President George W. Bush, has decided he’d rather take his chances in court than plead guilty and go to jail for obstructing justice.   The former head of the Office of Special Counsel—who’s supposed ...   read more

Welfare recipients in Missouri now will have to submit to drug testing in order to keep their benefits, under a new state law.   Anyone refusing to be tested will lose their eligibility. But those testing positive can still be in the program a...   read more

If President Barack Obama has a problem with his left flank, as some liberal critics contend, it’s not showing up in his latest—“staggering”—fundraising totals.   During one three-month period (April-June) this year, the Obama reelection effor...   read more

The Department of Defense’s special program for brain injuries can’t seem to explain its purpose to congressional watchdogs, and that doesn’t bode well for the program’s future or for those it’s supposed to be helping: wounded war veterans.   ...   read more

Fracking may be bad not only for your faucet, but also your garden.   And perhaps even a forest.   With considerable speculation surrounding the controversial method of freeing up natural gas below the Earth’s surface, the U.S. Forest Service ...   read more