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

Frustrated over the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and the devaluing of the U.S. dollar, lawmakers in Utah have legalized the use of gold and silver as currency, making the state the first in the country to move in this direction.   ...   read more

The average American pays about 12% of his or her income to federal income tax. Thanks to statistics compiled by US Uncut Chicago, a group that advocates boycotting U.S. corporations that avoid paying taxes in the United States, we now know the ...   read more

Environmentalists are suing the State Department to force the release of documents that might reveal communications between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and an oil company lobbyist over a controversial pipeline project.   Friends of the ...   read more

In support of Senator John McCain’s contention on the subject, CIA director Leon Panetta wrote a letter to the Republican lawmaker that undercuts claims by former Bush administration officials that torture was instrumental in tracking down Osama...   read more

A young man from Arkansas has received the first conviction at trial under the new federal hate crimes law enacted in 2009.   Frankie Maybee, 20, of Green Forest, was convicted by a federal jury on May 19 of multiple counts of committing and c...   read more

If you’re a college student, the odds are your professor will be a Democrat, and that’s good if you want to play it safe when it comes to grading.   A recent study found that Democratic professors are “more egalitarian” than Republican ones wi...   read more

By a 20-10 vote, the Tennessee Senate has adopted legislation that forbids public school teachers and students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade from teaching about the existence of homosexuality, although talking about heterosexuality...   read more

A legal challenge to Honolulu, Hawaii’s railway proposal has had a tough time getting a judge, due to the fact that all nine federal justices on the island recused themselves from hearing the case.   The High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project ...   read more

Creators of the Web’s most popular map images website have obliged private and public requests to censor certain photos on Google Maps. Some are not surprising, such as those revealing (or not revealing) the location or makeup of military instal...   read more

Manuel Sager, the ambassador of Switzerland since December 2010, is no stranger to the United States, having attended graduate school in North Carolina, worked as a lawyer in Arizona and held diplomatic posts in New York and Washington, DC.   ...   read more

Mario E. Jaramillo has served as ambassador of Panama to the United States since February 2011.   Jaramillo attended college at Louisiana State University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in business management with emphasis in market...   read more

Comcast has not lived up to its pledge to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after merging with NBC-Universal to air a minimum amount of local and Spanish-language news programs.   Over the course of five years, the media monolith is ...   read more

Lola Karimova-Tillayeva, the younger daughter of Uzbekistan’s dictator, is suing the French news website Rue89 for libel and for characterizing her father as an authoritarian ruler.   Rue89 ran a story which said Karimova-Tillayeva, who is Uzb...   read more

Sixteen years after the death of convicted felon Kenney Trentadue, the FBI and CIA have been ordered to turn over documents about the man whose family believes he was wrongfully murdered by the federal government after the Oklahoma City bombing....   read more

The United States has gone from relying on its rich for tax revenues to relying on them for loans, an economic turnabout that hasn’t been good for the country, writes Robert Reich, a professor at UC Berkeley and former labor secretary under Presid...   read more

Steven Kucan, a supervisor with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service in New York, stands accused of stealing $80,000 in government property, much of which he sold on eBay, for which he received at least $37,400.   A New Jersey...   read more