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

President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Government Printing Office (GPO) is William J. Boarman, a longtime labor union executive who began his career in the printing business and who has represented organized printers. He was nominated on Ap...   read more

Vermont continues to be the healthiest state in the nation, according to America’s Health Rankings, which are based on a variety of factors, such as number of smokers, hospitalizations, infectious disease, obesity, child poverty and availability...   read more

The tranquility of Easter Island in the South Pacific was shattered last week when Chilean police evicted local citizens, who have sought the return of control of their ancestral lands. Protesters have occupied more than a dozen properties, incl...   read more

Beth Dozoretz does not lack for powerful political connections. Chosen to be director of the Art in Embassies Program in December 2010, she is a longtime Democratic fundraiser with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, who also was the first w...   read more

The FBI had over a year to turn over all documents pertaining to its investigation of the 2001 Anthrax attacks to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which was asked by Congress to review the controversial case. But now, just as the NAS is pre...   read more

The last time a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony featured an empty chair, symbolizing the imprisonment of the recipient in his home country, was when Adolph Hitler’s fascist regime prevented German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky from atten...   read more

U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl has surfaced again in a new Taliban video, following his capture on June 30, 2009, or shortly thereafter. Bergdahl, the only known American POW in Afghanistan, appears in four seconds of the footage with a noticea...   read more

Having labored under interim directors since 2006, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in the Department of Justice may finally get a permanent director. Maybe.   President Barack Obama’s selection on November 17, 201...   read more

William R. Brownfield was nominated Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) on September 22, 2010. In this post, Brownfield advises top federal officials, including the President and the Secr...   read more

The Obama administration and some members of Congress have been making noise about prosecuting Julian Assange (assuming he could be extradited to the U.S.) for publishing classified government documents on his website, WikiLeaks. But no U.S. law c...   read more

The way to the hearts and minds of young people in Saudi Arabia is not through long interviews with George W. Bush, but through the personalities of David Letterman, Eva Longoria and Jennifer Aniston.   A classified communiqué from the U.S. em...   read more

Did the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency really break last year’s record for deportations? In claiming it did, by processing 392,862 deportations, ICE used some slick accounting procedures, and also persuaded some immigrants to l...   read more

Louisiana shrimp in Afghanistan? It could happen, if Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has his way.   Mabus, who’s leading the Obama administration’s recovery efforts for the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill, wants all branches of the militar...   read more

With time running out on the lame-duck 111th Congress, lawmakers quietly adopted a provision that kills President Barack Obama’s plan to close down the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and transfer detainees to American soil. The maneuver was s...   read more

The U.S. Navy has ticked off a lot of Iranians. Quietly, the Navy changed its policy on the name of the body of water separating Saudi Arabia from Iran—what commonly has been referred to as the Persian Gulf. Now all naval personnel are supposed ...   read more

In exchange for paying informant Craig Monteilh $177,000 to infiltrate Muslim communities, the FBI got little to show, except for embarrassment.   Monteilh, a convicted forger of banks notes, was hired by federal law enforcement to spy on Musl...   read more