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

Francisco Altschul Fuentes was appointed ambassador of El Salvador to the United States in March 2010.   Born in Antiguo Cuscatlán on December 31, 1948, Altschul studied architecture at the University of El Salvador. He went on to study urban ...   read more

The State Department cables released by WikiLeaks have claimed their first big fish in the U.S. diplomatic community as U.S. ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual was forced to resign on March 19, 2011, after complaints by Mexico’s president, Feli...   read more

Rupert Murdoch is being sued by News Corp. shareholders over his proposed acquisition of the Shine Group, a television production company owned by his daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, for $675 million.   The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, Amalgama...   read more

Paying nearly $600 million as a result of lawsuits really isn’t that bad when the product that supposedly got you into trouble earns billions of dollars each year.   That’s the reality for pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca, maker of the ...   read more

America’s top military commander in Afghanistan has taken action against those accused of killing two local youths who were tending their farms in the eastern province of Kunar.   General David Petraeus suspended a ground forces commander and ...   read more

Béla Szombati is a veteran diplomat who served as Hungary’s ambassador to France and the United Kingdom before arriving in Washington, DC, in September 2009.   Szombati was born on July 16, 1955, in Tel-Aviv, Israel, where his father, a career...   read more

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is so out of control, with 20 current or former officers facing criminal prosecution, that the U.S. Department of Justice wants a federal court to take over supervision of the force.   A move by the Jus...   read more

Radiation detectors at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport went off this week after two planes returned from Tokyo, raising concerns over how the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan will impact the United States. Radiation was also detected on an...   read more

After participating in the pursuit of famed bandit Pancho Villa in the early 20th century, the Browning M1911 automatic pistol is again making history—becoming the first-ever official firearm of a U.S. state.   In deciding to establish a state...   read more

A longtime politician and former labor leader, Gary Albert Doer assumed his responsibilities as Canada’s ambassador to the United States on October 19, 2009.   Born March 31, 1948, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Doer attended St. Paul’s High School. H...   read more

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata became ambassador of Italy to the United States in October 2009.    Born on June 9, 1946, in Bergamo, Terzi earned a law degree at the University of Milan, specializing in international law.   During his first two ...   read more

Instead of keeping watch itself, the Department of Defense today relies on contractors to monitor the work of other contractors, a risk strategy that became cemented during the Iraq War thanks to a politically-connected—and powerful—company with...   read more

The tsunami generated by the Japan earthquake last week traveled more than 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean before striking California’s coast, and still it unleashed enough force to do millions of dollars in damage to two harbors.   In No...   read more

Leaders of some of the largest banks in the country will be enjoying a huge payday soon, once the Federal Reserve approves higher dividend payments by selected financial institutions.   Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, may soon ...   read more

In accepting a substantial credit line from Duke Energy for its 2012 convention, the Democratic Party finds itself accused of two double standards.   First, party officials promised to not accept any donations, from corporations or individuals...   read more

Haiti could be facing nearly twice as many cases of cholera this year than what the United Nations has predicted, say researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco.   A new study warns that nearly 780,...   read more