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

Large manufacturing companies are using the weak economy as leverage to force organized labor into accepting different levels of wages for workers that would last long into the future, even after a recovery kicks in.   Use of two-tier labor sy...   read more

Having a Democrat in the White House has not been the salvation environmentalists had expected for protecting endangered species. After watching the Bush administration drag its feet in using the Endangered Species Act, environmental groups thou...   read more

Johnson & Johnson continues to have troubles with its pharmaceutical plant in Puerto Rico, where subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare had to recall millions of bottles of Tylenol, Motrin and other products in January. The latest bad news for Jo...   read more

Unable to earn as much as they once did on overdraft fees because of new federal rules, banks are offering fewer free-checking accounts and raising fees on noninterest-bearing accounts to make up for lost revenues.   A survey by Bankrate.com f...   read more

Other than the fact that both were lobbyists, in choosing Thomas E. Donilon to take over as national security adviser, President Barack Obama could not have selected someone more different in terms of background from his predecessor, James L. Jo...   read more

Suspicion has surfaced over the timing of a multi-billion-dollar arms sale to Israel following the country’s tacit agreement to a temporary halt of new settlements in the West Bank.   A week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked out ...   read more

Misguided public policies are fueling the AIDS epidemic in the American South, says Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new report (Southern Exposure: HIV and Human Rights in the Southern United States). The organization blames leaders in Southern sta...   read more

Aasia Bibi, a 45-year-old Christian mother of five children, has spent a year-and-a-half in a Pakistan jail on charges of insulting the prophet Muhammad and the Quran, and faces the possibility of being executed. An aide to President Asif Ali Za...   read more

Brigadier General Sean B. MacFarland has served as the deputy commanding general of the Combined Arms Center (CAC)–Leader Development and Education, and deputy commandant of the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) since July 9. 2010. MacFar...   read more

Teresa “Terri” McKay has served as director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) in the Department of Defense since September 15, 2008. In this capacity, she oversees the Pentagon’s day-to-day accounting and finance activities, i...   read more

WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that has embarrassed both the Obama and Bush administrations twice before, is about to drop another bomb, and this time several U.S. allies may also suffer from the fallout.   WikiLeaks is preparing to rele...   read more

The United States has passed an unfortunate landmark…U.S. troops have now been stuck in Afghanistan longer than was the Soviet Union. As of November 26, the American military matched the length of time that the once mighty Red Army spent in Afgh...   read more

CQ Press’s annual City Crime Rankings has declared St. Louis, Missouri, the worst urban center for crime, displacing Camden, New Jersey, which finished with the second highest crime rate after occupying the top spot last year. Other top crime-ri...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Rose M. Likins has served as U.S. ambassador to Peru since September 15, 2010.   The daughter of Eugene and Merlyn McCartney, she was born in 1959. Likins earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish...   read more

Tammye H. Treviño has served as administrator of the Rural Development Housing and Community Facilities Programs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture since June 2009. The agency administers aid to rural communities that focus on home ownership an...   read more

Faith-based organizations that accept federal funding cannot proselytize while providing social programs to the needy, under a new executive order signed by President Barack Obama. The order changes the original initiative, adopted by President Ge...   read more