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

The executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness since November 16, 2009, Barbara Poppe has more than 25 years of non-profit experience working on homelessness with housing-related organizations.    Born in 1958, Poppe ea...   read more

With 25 years of experience in planning, designing and constructing rural facility projects, Joel Neimeyer serves as federal co-chair of the Denali Commission, a position he has held since January 3, 2010. A pet project of Senator Ted Stevens (...   read more

Unlike headstones at the other military graveyards around the United States, those at Arlington National Cemetery now are featuring titles like “Operation New Dawn” instead of “Iraq War” to indicate in which conflict a particular soldier died. Som...   read more

Breaking the law does pay for companies doing business with the U.S. government.   At least 20 federal contractors violated federal wage-and-hour rules, and were forced to pay more than $80 million in back wages. But that was easy to absorb fo...   read more

With the largest police force in the country, New York City pays more than any other metropolis to settle lawsuits filed against the city’s finest.   A review by the Associated Press of litigation targeting the New York Police Department found...   read more

Lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice are close to settling a 11-year-old discrimination case filed by Native Americans against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).   In Keepseagle v. Vilsack, plaintiffs in the class action suit co...   read more

Tim and Mary Katharine Gann of Cleveland, Tennessee, are suing the restaurant chain Steak’n Shake for serving their son Caleb a bowl of chili mixed with Blair’s Mega Death Hot Sauce. Caleb’s parents claim their son suffered a “severe physical re...   read more

To speed up the process of evicting Americans from their homes, mortgage companies hired thousands of new employees in recent years who not only had no experience in foreclosures, but also did not know what they were doing. The percentage of bor...   read more

Massey Energy Co., owner of the mine where the worst accident in 40 years took place in April, failed another inspection following a surprise visit on September 28 by federal regulators.   Officials with the Mine Safety and Health Administrati...   read more

The Great Recession was tough enough on many nonprofit organizations, as donations declined due to Americans having less money to donate. But adding to the misery of groups like Goodwill, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the American Red Cross...   read more

Branding is dangerous business in Pakistan when it involves humanitarian aid and the old red, white and blue.   A coalition of 160 charities, including Oxfam, Save the Children, World Vision and Care International, have warned leaders in Washi...   read more

Spending more on health care has not produced a longer-living population for the United States, research shows.   When compared to survival rates in a dozen other countries, Americans aged 45 and 65 fared worse, suggesting that the value of he...   read more

Peter Diamond, a professor of economics at MIT, is not qualified to serve on the board of governors for the Federal Reserve, says U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), who is holding up the nominee’s confirmation.   Diamond is an authority on...   read more

Lacking the resources to prosecute due to budget cuts, District Attorney Mike Schrunk of Multnomah County, Oregon, says his office will no longer go after low-level drug offenders and thieves as well as other violators of the law.   People wil...   read more

The United States is moving up in the world in terms of gender equality. The latest Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum shows the U.S. is now ranked 19th out of 134 countries when it comes affording opportunities for women. Th...   read more

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security appear to be at cross purposes when it comes to the Internet.   For the seventh year in a row, homeland security officials are promoting their National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is des...   read more