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

Following on the heels of the case of the man who lost his job in Idaho because his wife has multiple sclerosis, we now have another example of why the United States needs health care reform.   Out of work and in need of health insurance, Jame...   read more

Guantánamo has become synonymous with the U.S. effort to hold detainees, which in turn has given the impression that the military prison in Cuba is the hub of this policy. But Guantánamo is by no means the largest prison for detainees—that distinc...   read more

Corporate America is lobbying Congress for a tax holiday on foreign earnings that companies want to bring home, claiming the move will serve as another stimulus for the floundering U.S. economy.   The corporations want the tax on foreign earni...   read more

The United States is proving to be a destination of choice among corrupt officials in China who have smuggled billions of dollars out of their country.   A Chinese study carried out by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2008, but only j...   read more

After more than 90 years in business, Allen’s Family Foods of Seaford, Delaware, is filing for bankruptcy, done in by skyrocketing corn prices via ethanol manufacturing.   Allen’s packs 8 million pounds of poultry a week. But with so much of t...   read more

Disaster preparation at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant was so poor that workers had to bring protective gear from miles away and an emergency manual from distant buildings, according to a new report.   The report, released Tokyo Electric...   read more

The U.S. government prides itself on spreading the wealth when it comes to outsourcing contracts to private companies. In Fiscal Year 2010, it awarded contracts to 163,500 different contractors. It sounds impressive. But a closer look at the num...   read more

In the early years of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a half dozen military personnel performed the thankless, and now forgotten, task of investigating reports of detainees abused by American forces.   The six-member Detainee Abuse Task Force (DATF...   read more

A defense attorney representing a Guantánamo prisoner has requested the admittance of classified documents published by WikiLeaks as evidence at his client’s military trial. The documents, known as “detainee assessments,” were released to the me...   read more

Getting to the White House means dealing with defeat. Of the 43 men who have served as president of the United States, 31 of them lost at least one race during their political career.   The list of those who overcame losing (as complied by Lar...   read more

An attorney by profession, Mwanaidi Sinare Maajar was chosen to be Tanzania’s ambassador to the United States in March 2010 and presented her credentials on September 7.   Born January 12, 1954, and raised in Moshi, Tanzania, Maajar earned a b...   read more

Western Europe is the place to be for a mom, with Norway leading the way by example. According to Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report, Norway was ranked No. 1 among all countries when it comes to access to health care, educat...   read more

The U.S. Department of Energy is refusing to reveal the names and other details related to taxpayer-financed trips taken by employees.   Information on more than 44,000 trips taken from January 2006 to September 2010 were missing the name of t...   read more

Since the 37-year reign of J. Edgar Hoover came to an end with his death in 1972, the FBI has been led by only five directors, each of whom has served one 10-year term in office, as determined by federal law. It is against this historical backdr...   read more

Sue K. Brown, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was appointed in November 2010 by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to Montenegro. She was sworn in on April 27, 2011.   A native of Texas, Brown joined the Foreign Servi...   read more

Muni Figueres was appointed as Costa Rica’s Ambassador to the United States in August 2010.   Figueres was born in Costa Rica and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from City College of New York, Cours de Civilisation franc...   read more