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

Radio broadcaster Harold Camping says the Christian Rapture will occur on May 21 and the world will end on October 21. Others are convinced that the Mayan calendar says that the end of the world will take place on December 21, 2012. If you’re worr...   read more

It’s been no-hard-feelings for Swiss bank UBS AG, the financial institution that hasn’t let more than $1 billion in government fines get in the way of building relationships with politicians in Washington.   Over the past three years, UBS has ...   read more

The U.S. Navy has decided to name the last cargo ship of its kind after labor leader César Chávez.   Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the 14th Lewis and Clark-class cargo ship will carry the name of Chávez, who led the drive to unioni...   read more

Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require companies bidding on railway contracts to reveal any role they played in the Holocaust during World War II. The new law primarily targeted Keolis, a Paris-based company whose majority ...   read more

Lawyers for Daimler AG (DCAG) will have to defend their company in U.S. court over allegations that the auto manufacturer’s subsidiary, Mercedes-Benz, helped the military junta in Argentina do away with political dissidents four decades ago.   ...   read more

The largest daily newspapers in the U.S. have placed greater emphasis on coverage of the federal budget deficit than the issue of unemployment, even though the American public is most concerned with jobs and the economy. The latest Gallup Poll s...   read more

Big Oil is getting to keep its billion-dollar federal tax breaks, for the time being.   On a mostly partisan vote, the U.S. Senate defeated an attempt to eliminate government subsidies for five top petroleum producers: BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, ...   read more

Demand for emergency medical care increased by more than a third over the past two decades, while the number of available Emergency rooms declined.   A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association states that urban an...   read more

Civil libertarians and immigrant advocates are accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of withholding court-ordered information about its controversial Secure Communities program.   Secure Communities is meant to search out violent ...   read more

Survivors of Argentina’s military dictatorship four decades ago will have to wait for any help from the U.S. government in locating lost relatives, thanks to unwillingness on the part of House Republicans.   Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-N...   read more

It isn’t often that Congress voluntarily gives up power to the President of the United States, but that appears to be the case with a terrorism-related provision added to a military authorization act.   Hidden within the National Defense Autho...   read more

Under no circumstance can residents of Indiana resist police entering their homes, even if there are no legal grounds for officers to do so, according to the state’s highest court.   In a 3-2 ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court found “a right to...   read more

Media organizations and conservatives are rejecting President Barack Obama’s decision to keep hidden the photos of Osama bin Laden’s death, having filed formal requests to see the images.   The Associated Press and National Public Radio, as we...   read more

In a rare meeting of strangers, Sebastiao Lourenco was introduced recently at the New York Organ Donor Network headquarters to the family of the man who gave him another chance at life.   Lourenco, in need of a new heart, received a transplant...   read more

Non-profits providing free legal assistance to the poor have fallen on tough times as a result of budget cuts and the weak economy.   The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a quasi-corporation created by the federal government in 1974 that pr...   read more

A Pakistani-American is expected to testify at a federal trial in Chicago that Pakistan’s intelligence agency supported the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.   David Coleman Headley will tell how he began preparing for the attack two yea...   read more