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

Justice Antonin Scalia guessed wrong last fall when he acted unilaterally to delay a multimillion-dollar legal settlement at the request of tobacco companies, figuring the U.S. Supreme Court would want to review the lower court decision and reve...   read more

If Senator Mark Kirk has his way, American commandos will be ordered to stop a multi-national aid flotilla scheduled to sail for Gaza this week. Israel has vowed to intercept the ships before they reach shore.   The Republican lawmaker who cap...   read more

The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian Marxist-Islamist group opposed to the government there, is lobbying the Obama administration to have its name removed from a list of foreign terrorist organizations.   MEK has been on the State Departmen...   read more

In a battle of retailers vs. banks, retailers claimed victory after the Federal Reserve approved drastically lower debit-card fees charged by financial institutions.   The banking industry has been making $20 billion annually off merchants who...   read more

Continuing its assault on campaign finance laws, the U.S. Supreme Court this week struck down an Arizona statute that provided taxpayer money for candidates dramatically outspent by well-funded opponents.   In a 5-4 decision, the court’s pro-c...   read more

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ growing list of apparent ethical violations has raised the specter of former Justice Abe Fortas, who resigned five decades ago from the high court for similar problems.   In the late 1960s, Fortas lo...   read more

The United States may be planning to withdraw large numbers of troops from Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. is leaving the country.   Over the next three years, while thousands of soldiers pack up and head home, contractors will be ...   read more

Infuse, a leading biotech solution for repairing damaged spinal cords, has been called out by a medical journal that devoted an entire issue to the product and questioned whether its manufacturer, Medtronic, has been above board in its promotion. ...   read more

Labeled the “little Cayman Island on the Great Plains,” a modest-looking home near the state capitol of Cheyenne, Wyoming, serves as the official address for more than 2,000 companies, including phony ones set up to hide assets from the governme...   read more

A federal appeals court has given Con Edison, the electricity provider for most of lower Manhattan, permission to move forward with its lawsuit against the Port Authority of New York for allowing diesel fuel tanks to sit beneath one of the World...   read more

Having long enjoyed their pensions before typical retirement age, members of Congress now face the risk of losing this perk as a result of new legislation introduced in both the House and Senate.   Representative Bobby Schilling (R-Illinois) i...   read more

Scientific analysis has taken a backseat to scandal and chaos at the military’s top crime lab, where a host of controversies have plagued the facility’s management.   Complaints ranging from racism and sexual harassment to assault and fraud ha...   read more

Left-leaning Democrats and the libertarian wing of the Republican Party have come together to propose the first-ever legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level.   Representatives Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) and Ron Paul (R-Texas...   read more

An apple a day can keep the doctor away, as long as it’s not heavily contaminated with pesticides.   America’s second most popular fresh fruit (behind bananas) is nearly always sold with some amount of farm chemicals on it, according to the En...   read more

Beyond the expected heat of battle, temperatures have played a costly role in the United States’ 10 years of warfare.   With conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq taking place in desert regions, where the daytime thermometer can eclipse 120 degree...   read more

House Republicans are supporting a lobbying effort by corporations to repeal new rules requiring the disclosure of executives’ salaries.   Publicizing the pay of corporate leaders, which was included in the Wall Street reform legislation adopt...   read more