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

Medicare spends more than $20 billion a year to provide dialysis to patients with kidney disorders—about $77,000 per patient. This expenditure is higher than what any other country in the world spends on dialysis, and yet the United States owns ...   read more

This past November was the worst of any November for U.S. deaths since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001. In fact, the number of American soldiers killed in November 2010 equaled the U.S. death toll of all the Novembers from 2003 through 2009...   read more

A longtime employee of the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections, Adrienne R. Poteat serves as the head of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), where she has been deputy director since 2002. This federal agency ...   read more

Known as the so-called “brain of Congress,” the Congressional Research Service (CRS) is being denied access to the thousands of State Department cables illegally released by WikiLeaks. As an arm of the Library of Congress, CRS is unable to revie...   read more

If a member of the military goes into the hospital, the most likely problem is not physical, but mental, according to new data produced by the Department of Defense.   The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center found that mental health disord...   read more

Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad, now under the control of billionaire Warren Buffett, has been exposed for having a history of judicial misconduct in court cases involving collisions or workplace injuries.   An investigation by th...   read more

African-Americans and Jews continue to experience more hate crimes than any other ethnic or religious group in the United States, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. Of the 8,336 hate crime victims in 2009, 2,902 were black and 1,13...   read more

College graduates today are starting out with considerably more debt than their counterparts who finished school in the mid-1990s, thanks to the need to borrow more student loans than before. The Pew Research Center reported in a new study that 65...   read more

Publicly, U.S. government officials have said they’re making progress in their attempts to cut off international funding of terrorist organizations. Privately, they tell a much different story.   A classified communiqué from Secretary of State...   read more

Reading WikiLeaks’ treasure trove of classified documents from the State Department can be bad for your career, says the Obama administration. Since the website began publishing diplomatic cables, officials from the Executive Branch have warned ...   read more

When Google and 30 other large U.S. corporations became the target of an elaborate computer attack, observers speculated that China’s government was behind the hacking. It turns out that this speculation may have been spot on.   A secret cable...   read more

The IRS likes to tout that it did a better job of identifying fraudulent tax returns among all those who filed during the 2010 tax season, claiming it discovered nearly 250,000 cheaters and prevented $1.48 billion from being wrongly paid out. Bu...   read more

If 34 National Guard soldiers win their lawsuit against contractor KBR Inc., the Department of Defense—and thus taxpayers—will wind up paying for the civil damages, not the company that did the wrongdoing. That’s because KBR received an immunity...   read more

Location, location, location … it’s not just the most important aspect of real estate but soon the stock market as well.   The longstanding image of traders on an exchange floor buying and selling is giving way to the ultra-fast wizardry of co...   read more

When the U.S. House of Representatives refused to pass the Bush administration’s bailout plan on September 29, 2008, Wall Street collectively gulped and, unbeknownst to the American public, ran to the bank. The bank in this case was the Federal ...   read more

Waste Control Specialists is looking to make money off low-level radioactive waste from three dozen states by offering to store it in a remote area along the Texas and New Mexico border. But the proposed storage has upset activists in Texas and th...   read more