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

In releasing 8,000 previously classified documents on UFO sightings, the British government has admitted that files on the Rendlesham Forest Incident have disappeared.   In late December 1980, dozens of members of the U.S. Air Force stationed ...   read more

For Pamela J. H. Slutz, who was sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to Burundi on November 2, 2009, the Foreign Service has quite literally been a lifetime experience.   Slutz grew up in the Foreign Service as a “diplobrat,” thanks to her father, ...   read more

Angèle Niyuhire became ambassador of Burundi to the United States in September 2009.   A Tutsi from Uprona, Niyuhire previously served as a Member of Parliament. The 47-year-old official has devoted herself to achieving peace and non-violence ...   read more

Approximately 80% of antibiotics sold in the United States each year are used on farm animals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and that has food and health advocates alarmed. The FDA estimates that 29 million pounds of ...   read more

Claiming the program was too expensive to continue, House Republicans have eliminated former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative, which involved using only biodegradable cups and dishware in congressional cafeterias.   As a r...   read more

China now holds more than $1.6 trillion in U.S. securities assets, according to the latest figures released by the Department of the Treasury, giving it its largest-ever share of America’s national debt.   Nearly two years ago (June 2009), Chi...   read more

After running what one general called “a rental car company,” the U.S. Army has decided to go back to having soldiers perform maintenance on helicopters and trucks, instead of relying exclusively on contractors.   General Raymond Mason, deputy...   read more

Three African-Americans men are suing Kansas City’s entertainment district for allegedly discriminating against them because of their race and attire. Robert Jackson, Kirk Proctor and Jerome Porter claim they were denied entry into a local bar a...   read more

Deepwater drilling for oil off the coast of the United States is ready to begin again now that the federal agency that regulates the work has approved the first permit since a BP-owned well polluted the Gulf of Mexico region last year. In announ...   read more

JPMorgan Chase was not one of the many victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. On the contrary, the bank made a lot of money off Madoff, close to a billion dollars.   According to an analysis by Linus Wilson of the University of Louisiana at...   read more

The price of American security is not found in the Department of Defense budget alone. There is considerably more to the cost of keeping the U.S. secure from al-Qaeda and other threats, costs that are both direct and indirect, writes Chris Hellm...   read more

Perhaps the United Nations Human Rights Council has been living under a rock. How else to explain its preparing to adopt a report praising Libya for its human rights record while the rest of the UN considers whether to suspend the country from t...   read more

In supporting a United Nations resolution imposing sanctions against Libya for Muammar al-Gadaffi’s crackdown on his own citizens, the U.S. has endorsed the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time.   Until now, the U.S....   read more

Here’s a moral conundrum for you. Let’s say that the director of a federal agency awarded a contract to a company she founded and which is now headed by her father and employs her sister. Is this an unacceptable conflict of interest or just anothe...   read more

Sworn in on July 20, 2009, Regina Elvira Dugan is the first female director to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military’s secretive, high-tech operation responsible for inventing the forerunner to the Internet (AR...   read more

After months of earthquakes, including the largest felt in 35 years, the state of Arkansas has ordered a temporary moratorium on the drilling of new injection wells related to natural gas-related drilling, which some locals believe are causing t...   read more