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

A federal program designed to locate and remove violent illegal immigrants from the U.S. has been more effective in deporting undocumented immigrants with no criminal backgrounds.   A review of federal records by the Florida Center for Investi...   read more

A $3 billion highway project in Indiana threatens to destroy thousands of acres of forests, farmlands, caves and aquatic ecosystems, according to environmentalists suing the federal government to halt construction.   The Hoosier Environmental ...   read more

A State Department cable released by WikiLeaks has bolstered the contention that former FBI agent Robert Levinson has been held in Iran after vanishing on March 9, 2007, while working as a private investigator on Kish Island, a popular tourist r...   read more

John Walsh was appointed Acting Comptroller of the Currency on August 15, 2010. In this position he serves as director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and chief executive of the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), ov...   read more

Mitar Kujundžić has served as ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States since February 2009.   Born on May 15, 1967, in Sarajevo, Kujundžić studied mechanical engineering in college.   His additional schooling consisted of dipl...   read more

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has issued a report card on the teaching of history to K-12 students, and a lot of states won’t want to see their grades.   In producing its first study since 2003 on the quality of U.S. history standards, the F...   read more

Daniel M. Ashe was nominated as the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Dec. 3, 2010. However, Louisiana’s two senators, Republican David Vitter and Democrat Mary Landrieu, have placed a hold on his confirmation to try to force the...   read more

Citizens of Belgium have no trouble poking fun at themselves or their government, which gave them plenty of reason to celebrate this week as the country broke the world record for longest time without forming a government.   As of February 17,...   read more

About 20,000 children are abducted every year in China. Most are never recovered, which makes the story of Peng Gaofeng all the more astounding.   Three years ago, Peng’s son, Peng Wenle, nicknamed “Le Le,” was kidnapped outside his father’s m...   read more

Gerald M. Feierstein, who has counterterrorism experience, assumed the position of U.S. Ambassador to Yemen, one of the centers of the U.S. counterterror effort, on September 17, 2010.   Born in Philadelphia, Feierstein earned his B.A. in Phil...   read more

The Department of Defense’s top leadership is being sued by a group of current and former military personnel over the failure to punish those who sexually assault servicemembers.   Seventeen veterans, including two men, claim Defense Secretary...   read more

Just as oil, gas and coal companies pay a royalty for extracting natural resources from public lands, mining companies also should have to pay the government for removing gold, silver and other minerals, argues the Obama administration.   Unti...   read more

Stepping into the middle of a political fight between conservationists and ranchers, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has blocked the impending slaughter of hundreds of Yellowstone National Park bison. The Democratic governor said he took actio...   read more

One-fifth of all U.S. states currently have no native son or daughter representing them in the Senate, according to Smart Politics at the University of Minnesota. The ten states and their Senators are:   Arizona: John Kyl-Nebraska; John McCain...   read more

What one Democrat created to further the American dream, another Democrat is trying to destroy, says political journalist Robert Scheer.   Scheer is maddened by a new policy issued by President Barack Obama that would eliminate public support fo...   read more

In addition to receiving national attention, the eventual trial of Jared Loughner could become an important test case for prosecutors who use a defendant’s online search history to gain a conviction and specific sentencing.   U.S. attorneys pl...   read more