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

Every one of the top fraud settlements reached last year by the federal government involved health care, including eight cases involving pharmaceutical companies. The largest amount recovered was $600 million from Allergan for illegally marketing ...   read more

The government of Yemen has been accused by American diplomats of diverting U.S. funds for counterterrorism efforts to wage war against northern rebels.   Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed the illegal diversion after reviewing classified State ...   read more

Air Force Brigadier General Scott D. Chambers has been reassigned from his role as the senior military officer in charge of purchasing food, clothing and other supplies for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.   The top official in the Defense Logi...   read more

Controversy surrounding a censored exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution has resulted in the resignation of National Portrait Gallery commissioner James Bartlett, who quit in protest over the Smithsonian’s decision to pull David Wojnarowicz’s “...   read more

A class action lawsuit involving the nearly century-old Armenia genocide has been cleared to proceed in U.S. federal court after a panel of appellate judges reversed its own decision from last year.   Lead plaintiff Vazken Movsesian and other ...   read more

Born of political compromise, the agreement to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy is supported by President Barack Obama, even though he admits the tax breaks won’t help the unemployment situation.   “The issue here is not whether I ...   read more

On top of the fact that the Great Recession was tougher on men than women in terms of job loss, the recovery is trending towards new work opportunities that have far higher rates of female employment.   The “Mancession” caused more men than wo...   read more

Lost amid the fighting over extending tax cuts for the rich has been a subsidy program for alternative energy projects that is set to expire at year’s end. Advocates for the solar and wind industries say the grants are needed to keep projects mo...   read more

In an attempt to maintain morale among troops, U.S. military commanders are looking the other way and allowing soldiers and Marines to care for stray dogs and cats on bases in Afghanistan, even though it is prohibited by the Uniform Code of Mili...   read more

When Mexican drug cartels need weapons, they turn to gun shops in Texas more than any other state in the U.S. An investigation by The Washington Post determined the top 12 U.S. dealers of guns traced to Mexico in the past two years, of which eig...   read more

Public Warehousing Co. (aka Agility) ran afoul of the Department of Defense last year after it was caught overbilling the government for work stemming from its $8.5 billion contract to distribute food to American soldiers in Jordan, Iraq and Kuwai...   read more

The tepid economic recovery has done little to encourage Americans to strike out on their own. Since the recession officially ended at the end of 2009, the rate of the self-employed has dipped from 10.6% to 10.0%. There are several possible fact...   read more

A bipartisan group of lawyers who have held the same job for which James M. Cole has been nominated think he should be confirmed as the No. 2 person in the U.S. Department of Justice. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from holding up Cole’s no...   read more

The United States could soon have a geek gap on its hands unless it starts graduating more computer science majors.   At time when computer hacking and security have become crucial issues for the government and the private sector, the U.S. is ...   read more

Don’t bother inquiring about the sugar content of sodas at fast-food chains like McDonald’s and Burger King, because whatever the companies claim, the numbers may be wrong. This fact has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Sout...   read more

The University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges have made hundreds of millions of dollars since 2001 by aggressively recruiting soldiers using the GI Bill to obtain higher education. In just one year, these schools collected about $640 m...   read more