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

Having fled the United States, leaving behind a tainted corporate reputation and a trail of legal battles, the man who created the infamous Blackwater security firm has set up shop in the Persian Gulf region, where he’ll be helping Arab dictator...   read more

The last thing the state of Texas needed was another wildfire, having had so many recently, and on top of that, getting the snub from Washington on its request for assistance. But another fire did break out, and the culprit was none other than t...   read more

Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in January 1959, at the age of 31 or 32, and held on until health problems forced him to begin giving up partial control in 2006. He finally retired officially as the leader of the Communist Party of Cuba on April...   read more

Four months after voting to approve a controversial billion-dollar merger between Comcast and NBCUniversal, Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to become a lobbyist for…Comcast.   Baker was one of four...   read more

Last year marked a dark milestone for Medicare and Social Security, as both entitlement programs, for the first time in the same year, paid out more in benefits than they collected in revenue.   This development meant the federal government ha...   read more

If General Motors once again becomes one of the world’s most successful corporations, it will have China to thank in large part.   By taking advantage of the Chinese’s growing hunger for automobiles and road trips, GM is now the No. 2 seller o...   read more

Defense attorneys for Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency employee facing trial for allegedly disclosing government secrets, are outraged by the Obama administration’s attempt to block unclassified information in federal court.   D...   read more

Four months after voting to approve a controversial billion-dollar merger between Comcast and NBCUniversal, Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to become a lobbyist for…Comcast.   Baker was one of four F...   read more

Once upon a time, the way the United States worked was that the CIA spied and gathered intelligence and the military fought wars. This division of responsibilities now appears to be old-fashioned, as demonstrated by President Barack Obama’s reshuf...   read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs was blasted this week by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for bungling both the care of veterans and the processing of disability benefit claims.   In a case brought by veterans advocates, the appellate cou...   read more

Republicans in the U.S House have introduced legislation to eliminate funding for grants from the U.S. Department of Education to teach American History, labeling such expenditures a waste of money.   The Teaching American History grant program,...   read more

Buried within legislation intended to help the Gulf region recover from the BP oil spill is a provision requiring lawsuits against oil companies to be heard in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.   Critics say the move would be a boon for indu...   read more

Jane Harman announced on February 7, 2011, that she was resigning as a U.S. congresswoman to become head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. think tank devoted to the ideals of former U.S. President Woodro...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Geeta Pasi received her first-ever nomination to serve as ambassador—to the small but strategically-located East African nation of Djibouti—in April 2011.   Originally from New York State, Pasi re...   read more

The director of the FBI is limited to serving one 10-year term in office according to federal law, a limitation born of the bureau’s early history when J. Edgar Hoover ruled for 37 years and amassed enough power to rival the president of the Uni...   read more

Wealthy political donors may find themselves owing back taxes to the IRS, which has indicated a willingness to enforce a long forgotten rule on taxing large contributions to certain types of groups involved in election campaigns.   IRS officia...   read more