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

The Obama administration’s united front on the WikiLeaks controversy has fractured, as evidenced by a member of the State Department criticizing the Department of Defense’s treatment of a soldier accused of giving classified information to the w...   read more

Phoenix, Arizona, may not be the “kidnapping capital” of the United States after all.   Having earned the nickname because of high numbers of reported kidnappings, Phoenix is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice on suspicion o...   read more

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is not only a result of combat experience, but also rape, argues U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine). That’s why the congresswoman wants the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover PTSD claims by m...   read more

Banny deBrum has served as ambassador from the Marshall Islands to the United States since 1996, except for a 20-month period in 2008-2009.   DeBrum graduated from Xavier High School in Micronesia in 1977, and Regis University, a Jesuit instit...   read more

To hear some Japanese officials talk, you might think that the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was unavoidable. In fact, the plant has a long and disturbing history of trouble that includes damage by previous earthquakes, rig...   read more

Fed up with Governor Scott Walker’s effort to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees, firefighters in Wisconsin protested this week outside a Republican-friendly bank and withdrew so much money from accounts that bank offic...   read more

The U.S. Forest Service has been ordered by a federal judge to cease a roadside clearing project in Los Padres National Forest in California because it did not consider the effects of the work on endangered species, as required by law.   Judge...   read more

Warren M. Stern was named Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office(DNDO) in August 2010, a position that had been vacant for 18 months. His responsibility is to oversee the department’s nuclear security...   read more

Former British diplomat Carne Ross says he is disappointed by the lack of talk about using non-violent alternatives against Libya’s government for its attacks on civilians. Ross names 10 tactics that should be tried before any violent military act...   read more

Utah politicians have turned their state into the most secretive in the nation, according to critics of a new law that severely restricts public access to government records.   In a space of only one week, the state legislature and Governor Ga...   read more

Despite demands from President Hamid Karzai that all private security contractors should leave his country by January 2011, the U.S. had no qualms about expanding the number of private guards in Afghanistan during 2010.   As of December 31, th...   read more

His lack of knowledge about cattle did not give him away to his Idaho neighbors, nor did his knack of wearing outdated overalls. But locals did eventually discover who Jeffrey John Shaw really was after federal marshals showed up and arrested hi...   read more

Young people shouldn’t have the right to vote, even if it means taking away his own ability to cast ballots in elections, writes Peter Tucci, an editor at The Daily Caller, a conservative website.   Tucci believes the 25 million Americans age 18...   read more

A career diplomat with a cabinet rank of state minister, Akramul Qader has served as ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States since November 2009. In December 2010, he also assumed the role of ambassador to Mexico.   Qader received his ma...   read more

Because of declining home prices at the end of last year, nearly 25% of mortgage holders in the U.S. found themselves with a home that was worth less than their home loan.   According to CoreLogic, the rate of underwater mortgages was 23.1% at...   read more

Some farmers in Florida want to make it illegal to photograph their properties without their permission in an attempt to thwart animal rights groups from making videos about alleged cruelty.   SB 1246, submitted by state Senator Jim Norman (R-...   read more