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

It’s impossible to know if the federal government is effectively spending billions of dollars on contractors to help fight the nation’s war on drugs, says a U.S. senator.   Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri, chair of the Subcommittee on Co...   read more

Hecla Mining Company has agreed to pay one of the largest settlements ever involving toxic clean-up under the Superfund program. The good news is that the money will be used to help fund the clean-up. The bad news is that the amount won’t come c...   read more

Bradley Kilburn is suing what briefly was his new employer after the company fired him allegedly because his wife has Multiple Sclerosis (MS). In September 2010, Kilburn moved from Minnesota to Pocatello, Idaho, to begin his new position as fire...   read more

This just in: Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and Belgium still has not formed a government.   Like the catchphrase started by Saturday Night Live in 1975 to mock the seemingly unending story of Spain’s dying dictator, Belgium co...   read more

The FBI intends to give its agents more leeway when it comes to investigating suspects, including the ability to search databases, sift through household trash and conduct surveillance without adhering to certain rules that used to apply to such...   read more

The biggest drug-overdose killers in the United States are not illegal substances like cocaine or heroin. Rather they go by names like Xanax, Klonopin, Oxycodone and Hydrocodone.   Death by prescription overdose is now a larger problem than th...   read more

Doubts have surfaced over the claims by U.S. General David Petraeus that American military forces captured thousands of Taliban warriors in 2010.   Petraeus, then the top commander in Afghanistan, and soon to be the Director of the CIA, said l...   read more

Circumstantial evidence is sufficient for keeping detainees behind bars at Guantánamo, according to a federal appeals court in Washington, DC.   Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi of Yemen was supposed to be released from the U.S. prison, after a ...   read more

Being accused of a crime in the U.S. military can mean spending years in prison before going to trial, and in some cases, being found not guilty.   A review of the military’s court system by McClatchy Newspapers found numerous problems plaguin...   read more

Like a sandcastle at high tide, equity in the American housing market has swiftly eroded in very little time.   Ten years ago, the average homeowner had 61% equity. Today, the percentage has plummeted to 38%. If this trend continues, 2011 will...   read more

AT&T is now reaping the benefits of making large donations to various liberal groups, now that it needs public support for its acquisition of T-Mobile.   In recent years, AT&T has provided funding to the following, all of which have publicly d...   read more

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.   Certainly, in January, 1861, when Henry Wadsworth...   read more

When Cisco Systems helped China build its program for censoring and spying on Internet communications, it became an accomplice in the arrest and torture of political dissidents, according to a lawsuit filed against the high-tech company.   Thr...   read more

Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has been accused of deliberately withholding information from his colleagues in an effort to stop work on the controversial Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada and making decis...   read more

The state of Texas is set to execute a Mexican national convicted of murder who was never informed of his right to receive help from his home government—a violation of international law that threatens to establish a dangerous precedent affecting...   read more

Tiny oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf have been great customers for U.S. defense contractors, which have enjoyed arms deals worth billions of dollars from the region.   In order to become a stronger military presence in the Gulf and challe...   read more