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

None of the favorites to run for President next year has officially filed as a candidate, but that doesn’t mean the nation doesn’t already have dozens of citizens who are ready to serve. They don’t have any money, but they do have catchy names. ...   read more

Death and mass injury were avoided last month in Spokane, Washington, when an unexploded backpack bomb was discovered near the route of parade celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 17. Although the bomb was well designed and a legiti...   read more

Officially, corporations are supposed to pay a tax rate of 35%. But thanks to myriad loopholes in the U.S. tax code, many large businesses pay less—sometimes only a fraction of what they are supposed to pay.   Carnival Corporation, owner of th...   read more

Freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has demonstrated a willingness to go his own way, much like his maverick father, Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas).   For example, when the Senate took up an amendment to a Federal Aviation Administratio...   read more

Donald B. Verrilli Jr.’s selection to succeed Elena Kagan as solicitor general was considered a surprise by some Washington insiders who believed the job would go to Neal Katyal, the acting solicitor general. The White House announced Verrilli’s...   read more

Rather than taking heart from the latest employment news, that the economy produced 36,000 new jobs in January, the nation’s leadership should be alarmed, writes Robert Reich, former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton. Such a figure is p...   read more

Awal Gul, 48, of Afghanistan, has become the seventh detainee to die at Guantánamo Bay since the U.S. began imprisoning foreign nationals at the military base in January 2002.   Gul was held for nine years without being charged or tried for an...   read more

With officers remaining longer in the service, the U.S. Air Force is faced with laying off more than 2,000 commissioned personnel in order to accommodate a shrinking budget. Currently, the Air Force has 2,300 more officers than it can afford, wh...   read more

Sick of his wife, an unidentified immigration officer in the United Kingdom placed the name of his spouse on the government’s no-fly list for suspected terrorists in order to keep her out of the country.   The wife left the UK three years ago ...   read more

If the U.S. still wants to pursue the idea of school vouchers, it should look to Sweden for answers, writes Odd Eiken, executive vice president of Kunskapsskolan Education, the largest private school provider in Sweden. The former state secretary ...   read more

The ambassador to Tajikistan, which is the poorest country of all the former Soviet republics, is Kenneth E. Gross, Jr., who is familiar with Tajikistan from his earlier tour there as the Deputy Chief of Mission from 2002 to 2004. He was nominated...   read more

In one of his first moves during the ongoing political crisis, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appointed Omar Suleiman as his vice president, hoping the change, along with the dismissal of the rest of his cabinet, would placate the hundreds of th...   read more

You know there’s something seriously wrong at an American embassy when staffers ask to be transferred to a war zone, instead of staying put in a cushy European post.   At the U.S. embassy in Luxembourg, life under Ambassador Cynthia Stroum was...   read more

Kelly Williams-Bolar has gained national fame for simply trying to put her daughters into safer schools.   The 40-year-old single mother was convicted in an Ohio court of tampering with records to falsely claim her family lived in the Copley-Fai...   read more

Joseph A. Mussomeli, a diplomat with three decades of experience, took over as U.S. ambassador to Slovenia in October 2010. He previously served as ambassador to Cambodia.   Born in New York City on May 26, 1952, Mussomeli hails from a Sicilia...   read more

Nominated on July 15, 2010, to be the U.S. ambassador desert country of Mauritania and confirmed on October 10, 2010, Jo Ellen Powell, a career member of the Foreign Service, grew up in a Foreign Service family, living in Panama, Saudi Arabia, L...   read more