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 Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) needs to improve its system for identifying E. coli in the nation’s ground beef supply, according to the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.   IG Phyllis Fong found the FSIS i...   read more

The U.S. government will be facing a lawsuit from the heirs of 700 Guatemalans unless it offers a satisfactory settlement for a 1940s experiment that exposed them to syphilis.   From 1946 to 1948, Dr. John C. Cutler injected orphans, prisoners...   read more

Charged with keeping technologies that have both civilian and military uses from falling into the wrong hands overseas, the U.S. Department of Commerce has dramatically cut back on its screening of foreign nationals for American visas, even thou...   read more

Inmates in American prisons have come a long way from the days of making license plates. Nowadays, prisoners are helping build missiles and other sophisticated weapons, and providing dirt-cheap labor in the process.   While earning as little a...   read more

When nine-year-old Christina Taylor was murdered during the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that critically wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the media spent no shortage of time mourning the girl’s tragic death.   When Brisenia Flores, al...   read more

With the help of the AARP, three senior citizens are suing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) over its change to the policy governing reverse mortgages.   Reverse mortgages allow older homeowners to borrow against the equity...   read more

BP’s broken well last year unleashed not only an enormous amount of oil, but possibly as much as half a million tons of methane gas.   Researchers estimate that up to 40% of the leak was methane, with somewhere between 260,000 to 520,000 tons ...   read more

Voters in New Jersey don’t have much to say about their junior U.S. senator, Democrat Robert Menendez, even though he was a press release machine last year.   In 2010, Menendez’s office distributed 773 news announcements, a rate of more than t...   read more

On March 7, President Barack Obama signed an executive order permitting the indefinite detention without trial of prisoners being held at the U.S. military installation at Guantánamo Bay.   The order will be applied to 47 prisoners at Guantána...   read more

At a time when the federal government could desperately use more revenues to balance the budget, the Department of Justice is doing a lousy job of collecting monies from convicted swindlers.   A review of Justice Department records by USA Toda...   read more

The administration that promised more openness with government information has instead taken a tougher stance on whistle-blowing than any other White House in the last four decades.   Since taking office, President Barack Obama’s Department of...   read more

Computer hackers from China were reportedly behind a string of recent attacks that hit government and business websites throughout the Western world.   In France, the finance ministry was forced to shut down 10,000 computers after a “spectacul...   read more

Gidion Mbuvi, a 35-year-old member of Kenya’s parliament from Nairobi, was thrown out of the room by his peers for dressing inappropriately.   Known commonly as Mike Sonko (Sonko being a Swahili term meaning rich and flamboyant), Mbuvi offended ...   read more

Described as Egypt’s version of the French storming of the Bastille in 1789, hundreds of protestors last weekend invaded the headquarters of former President Hosni Mubarak’s intelligence force, taking with them a large volume of files that may s...   read more

Raising taxes on wealthy individuals is just fine with a large majority of Americans, according to a new poll by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.   When asked about placing a surtax on those earning $1 million or more a year, 81% of respo...   read more

On Monday, the Obama administration announced that the president had selected Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to replace Jon Huntsman Jr. as U.S. ambassador to China. Barack Obama’s third choice for Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke was confirmed ...   read more