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

From the U.S. military to the FBI to the State Department and the Pentagon, there seems to be no shortage of demand for people who speak Arabic or Urdu (the official language of Pakistan). But there’s no need to look outside the United States’ b...   read more

When the Chinese government-owned energy company Cnooc (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) tried to buy the U.S. oil company Unocal back in 2005, it was forced to withdraw its bid because of national security concerns in the U.S. Five year...   read more

Scientists and beekeepers have been searching for an explanation to the massive die-off of honeybees during the last four years as the result of a syndrome known as colony collapse disorder. Honeybees pollinate about 30% of all food consumed and...   read more

Just weeks before the November election, the Obama administration has announced a record number of arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants, countering attacks by Republicans that Democrats have not been tough on the immigration issue.   ...   read more

While the private sector created a modest number of new jobs in September, governments at all levels continued to downsize, especially schools and city and county agencies.   About 64,000 new jobs were offered by private employers last month. ...   read more

Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman of Yemen is one of 48 detainees whom President Barack Obama has deemed too dangerous to ever be released, part of a group that former Vice President Dick Cheney called “the worst of the worst.”   But questions ...   read more

President Barack Obama continues to refuse to notify the full House and Senate Intelligence Committees about covert operations, reaffirming his position in a signing statement attached to his approval of an intelligence authorization bill recent...   read more

By involving himself in the decision to throw out campaign contributions limits for corporations and unions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas helped expand fundraising opportunities for his wife’s new political organization.   Virginia...   read more

There must be something wrong with them. If they’ve been out of work for months and months, they just can’t be good employees. This is the line of reasoning being taken by some employers and job agencies that are refusing to consider any applica...   read more

Interested more in pleasing Wall Street than helping Main Street, some of the biggest American corporations are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to buy back their own stocks, rather than invest in new products or services that would mean...   read more

Dr. Tara J. O’Toole was confirmed as the Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security on November 4, 2009.   Raised in Norwood, Massachusetts, O‘Toole received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College ...   read more

Inmates at the Berkeley County Detention Center in South Carolina have one and only one reading option during their stay behind bars: The Bible. The jail’s policy bans all other literature, including magazines and newspapers. There is no library...   read more

Yasir Afifi made quite the discovery when he took his car in for an oil change in Santa Clara, California. Attached to the bottom of his vehicle was a special tracking device from the FBI which did not tell the Muslim-American he was under surveil...   read more

The American Postal Workers Union, which represents employees of the U.S. Postal Service and is the world’s largest postal union, is taking longer than usual this year to choose their national officers. The election is conducted by mail, natural...   read more

Todd M. Keil was appointed Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection at the Department of Homeland Security in December 2009. He oversees 18 sectors that are devoted to the safety of U.S. assets deemed critical to the nation’s way of lif...   read more

David A. Lebryk was selected as commissioner of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Management Service (FMS) on June 26, 2009.   Lebryk graduated from Harvard College with an AB in economics, and holds a master’s degree in public a...   read more