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

Expanding the use of full-body scanners at airports will improve the nation’s security, says the Obama administration.   It also will benefit the manufacturers of the equipment, including those lobbying on their behalf, like former Homeland Se...   read more

Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) over its plan to bulldoze a protected beach in Delaware so that three private homes will be better protected from the elements.   FWS wants to scrape sand from the Prime H...   read more

A former U.S. Army infantryman has been kicked off a Maryland community college campus following the publication of an essay in which he wrote about how his service in Iraq left him addicted to killing.   Charles Whittington crafted the essay ...   read more

Corporations could win privacy rights reserved until now for individuals if the U.S. Supreme Court finds in favor of AT&T in a case that will be heard early next year.   At issue is whether AT&T can block the release of company documents, prev...   read more

Led by a congressman who’s received tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from private contractors, a movement is afoot to dump employees of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and replace them with private airport screeners...   read more

Americans are consuming three times the amount of chicken than 60 years ago, but the U.S. government hasn’t kept up with its regulations governing how much arsenic is allowable when eating poultry.   Despite the known dangers of arsenic to hum...   read more

Now is not a good time for municipalities in Michigan. The city of Hamtramck (population 23,000) has asked permission from the state to declare bankruptcy, due to a $3 million deficit it is unable to close. Hamtramck officials say the financial ...   read more

Nancy Hellman Bechtle was appointed to the Presidio Trust board of directors by President George W. Bush in 2008. She took over as chair of the board in January 2010. The Presidio Trust is a federal corporation created by Congress to manage the ...   read more

More than fifty years after it hit the market, and five years after the United Kingdom banned it, the painkiller Darvon is being pulled off the American market at the request of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug and a related bran...   read more

Parents in Iowa cannot be punished if their children break the law, ruled the state Supreme Court on a bad-parenting local ordinance. In 1999, the city of Davenport adopted a law promoting parental responsibility that allowed police to cite adul...   read more

Washington, DC, has opened the door for homosexual couples to get married without being physically present in the district, where gay marriage is legal. This week, two men, Thomas Mark Reed and Dante Karl Walkup, got married while in Dallas, Tex...   read more

Michael G. “Mike” Vickers has served as assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict and interdependent capabilities since July 2007, having originally been selected by President George W. Bush for the position an...   read more

In June 2010, President Barack Obama appointed architect Milford Wayne Donaldson to be Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the nation’s lead agency on historic preservation. ACHP is an independent agency that works ...   read more

While the health insurance industry publically negotiated with Congress last year over the shape of the healthcare reform law, it secretly funneled more than $86 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce so it could criticize ideas, such as creati...   read more

Fresh off their November election victories, which enjoyed majority support from women for the first time in decades, Republicans in the U.S. Senate promptly failed in their first opportunity to show they’re serious about issues important to femal...   read more

The U.S. military wants to build a series of firing ranges on the Pacific island of Guam overlooking the remnants of an ancient settlement. Fearing the move will adversely affect the historically significant site, the National Trust for Historic...   read more