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

Millions of people around the world could find themselves in the same predicament as the 172,000 Japanese who were forced to evacuate their homes because they lived within 30 kilometers (19 miles) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when ...   read more

Republican Governor Rick Scott signed the legislation that applies to anyone applying for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The program provides block grants to states with the goals of “promoting job preparation, work ...   read more

Cities have a way of altering the intensity of storms as they pass overhead and move downwind, according to researchers at Purdue University.   After analyzing 10 years of data from storms around the Indianapolis area, Indiana’s state climatol...   read more

George Sarris has won his three-year battle with the U.S. Air Force, which retaliated against him after he complained about dangerously-poor maintenance work on American spy planes.   A lifelong civilian mechanic working at Offutt Air Force Ba...   read more

Worldwide emissions of carbon-dioxide increased to record levels last year, prompting scientists to warn that current energy production could make it difficult to meet the goal for slowing down the rate of global warming.   In 2010, CO2 emissi...   read more

Seeking to bring down costs, the Obama administration is implementing a program that collects data on how much hospitals bill the Medicare program for patient care—and hospitals are not happy about it. Hospital payments account for the largest s...   read more

After al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in Kenya on August 7, 1998, Osama bin Laden said the American diplomatic mission was targeted because it was serving as a major CIA station.   It turns out the former terrorist leader was right.   Among...   read more

For years secrecy trumped communications within the U.S. Department of Energy, resulting in the United States now facing a critical shortage of a rare gas needed for detecting nuclear weapons smuggling.   At one end of the Energy Department is...   read more

Lawmakers and government watchdogs have stepped up their calls for the White House to fill the State Department’s inspector general position which has been vacant since January 2008.   The Government Accountability Office and elected officials...   read more

The effects of hackers who infiltrated a computer security firm in March are still being felt, this time at Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors.   EMC Corp’s RSA security division was hacked two months ago, leaving vulnerable numerou...   read more

Under the guise of combating instability in the Middle East and countering Iranian influence, the royal family of Saudi Arabia has taken military and diplomatic steps to reduce the likelihood of more democratic revolutions gaining power in the r...   read more

In the nearly 40 years that the government has been keeping track of employment rates for African-Americans, the percentage of adult black men with jobs had never fallen below 60%. But in February 2009, the first month of the first term of the n...   read more

Nearly 10 years ago, detainee Abu Zubaydah lost his left eye while in the custody of the CIA at a secret location. To this day he says he doesn’t know why the Americans removed it.   During his capture in Pakistan in March 2002, Zubaydah was s...   read more

If AllGov readers are any indication, the dominant concerns in May have been peace, jobs and the end of the world, although health care and dictators were not far behind.   1. Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Impr...   read more

When General Motors and Chrysler were bailed out by the Obama administration, they received not only billion-dollar deals, but also a get-out-jail-free-card for auto liability lawsuits.   Today, the newly reborn car makers don’t have to pay th...   read more

Within three years, most airline passengers in the U.S. will have to pass through full-body scanners before boarding planes, exposing them to radiation levels that the government says are safe but that some scientists have questioned. The move t...   read more