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

Goodbye green, blue, yellow, orange and red. Hello … well, they’re still working on that.   The Obama administration has decided to discard one of the most visible reminders of the post-Sept. 11 anti-terror policies installed by President Geor...   read more

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) spent two decades under-reporting radiation levels in local water supplies, which helped water districts avoid fines, but exposed residents to potentially harmful radioactive elements.   An ...   read more

A 35-year veteran specializing in military intelligence, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. has served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency since March 2009. He also serves as commander of the Joint Functional Componen...   read more

In one of the more unusual cases to make its way to the judicial branch of government, a federal court in Nevada will soon hear legal arguments over the patent rights of a digital masturbation device intended for use with Internet porn. New Fron...   read more

Much maligned by Republicans since the election, earmarks are defined under U.S. Senate rules as a spending item inserted “primarily at the request of a senator” that goes “to an entity, or (is) targeted to a specific state.” This definition fits ...   read more

In March 2010, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Robert L. “Bob” Caslen, Jr. took over as commander of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers and traini...   read more

With the nation desperate for new jobs, the Obama Administration would be wise to reestablish the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), says Frank Ackerman, senior economist and director of the Climate Economics Group of the Stockholm ...   read more

As head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) in the U.S. Department of Labor, Phyllis C. Borzi not only oversees issues related to pensions and retirement plans, but also will help enforce part of the health care reform law as...   read more

Rafael Moure-Eraso took his place as Chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) on June 23, 2010. The CSB is an independent agency dedicated to investigating industrial chemical accidents and making prevention recommendations to the industry an...   read more

Unemployment may be high, but business is booming…or at least corporate profits are. New data from the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis shows businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.66 trillion in the third quarter ...   read more

Through the use of civil asset forfeiture, law enforcement agencies in Texas last decade collected property and cash valued at $280 million from individuals neither convicted nor even charged with a crime. Civil asset forfeiture allows police an...   read more

In what plaintiffs are calling the first of its kind, a lawsuit filed in U.S. court accuses Pakistan’s intelligence service of helping carry out the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Five families of those injured or killed in th...   read more

Female soldiers in the U.S. Army may be getting a new uniform specifically designed to fit a woman’s body. The plan is to make the new uniform form-fitting while not showing off “any curves,” Major Sequana Robinson, assistant product manager for...   read more

Lieutenant General Patrick J. O’Reilly is only the second U.S. Army commander to lead the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), which is charged with developing a viable system for protecting the United States and its interests from ballistic missile at...   read more

The best bets to find employment in the public and private sectors are with large corporations and the federal government, according to a new Gallup poll.   Forty-two percent of companies surveyed with at least 1,000 employees said they were h...   read more

United Launch Alliance, a joint partnership involving Boeing and Lockheed Martin, sent a Delta 4-Heavy rocket into space over the weekend on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), keeper of the United States’ spy satellites. Little ...   read more