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 future is now in León, Mexico, which plans to become the first city to rely on iris and face-scanning technologies for everything from crime fighting to banking. The city of approximately one million citizens has contracted with Global Rainm...   read more

More than 90 years since the conclusion of fighting, Germany on October 3 will finally pay off the last of its reparations that were imposed by the Allies after World War I ended.   The 1919 Treaty of Versailles set the reparations, which went...   read more

The gap between rich and poor Americans grew wider than ever last year, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.   Those making more than $100,000 annually (the top 20% of the population) received 49.4% of all income generated in 2009,...   read more

If President Barack Obama acceded to Republican and conservative Democrats demands to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year, the decision would cost the federal government $2.8 trillion in revenue ov...   read more

The Obama administration wants to force all communications companies to make their networks compliable with wiretapping orders from law enforcement, a change that would primarily affect the likes of Facebook, Skype, BlackBerrys and similar encry...   read more

Hundreds of FBI agents may have cheated on an exam testing their knowledge about when they can legally spy on Americans. The FBI’s inspector general found widespread “cheating and abuse” by agents located around the country who took the bureau’s...   read more

Park officials in Pennsylvania are toying with the idea of moving a monument dedicated to the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg because motorists keep crashing into it. The memorial, known as the 74th Pennsylvania Monument, is situated only 10 feet from...   read more

The Department of the Treasury is proposing a significant expansion of reporting requirements for banks involving money transfers to and from the United States, all in the name of thwarting future terrorist attacks.   Administration officials ...   read more

Citing the need to protect classified information, the Obama administration has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit intended to stop the government’s attempts to assassinate a U.S. citizen overseas.   The focus of the civil case is Anwa...   read more

Officials in Sidney, New York, want the local Muslim religious community to remove its small cemetery, claiming bodies have been buried illegally in the upstate locale. But when pressed on the matter, town leaders were unable to cite the laws br...   read more

Ongoing budget deficits at the local government level have opened the door for a private company to develop into the fifth largest library system in the United States. Library Systems & Services (LSSI) currently operates 14 public library system...   read more

David Walls doesn’t think much of Dial Corporation’s claims about the disinfecting powers of its soap. He’s suing the manufacturer to stop it from claiming Dial Complete 1) “'kills 99.99% of germs,” 2) is the most recommended product of its kind...   read more

Six members of Massey Energy’s management are balking at testifying before state and federal investigators trying to determine the cause of the Upper Big Branch Mine accident that killed 29 miners, the nation’s worst coal mining disaster in 40 y...   read more

Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi), a small software company in Massachusetts, claims the CIA is using a stolen computer program for its drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.   In a lawsuit it filed in Boston, IISi alleges that a form...   read more

Legislation granting illegal immigrant students the chance to remain in the U.S. as legal residents died in the Senate after Republicans refused to vote for a defense authorization bill to which the measure was attached.   The DREAM (Developme...   read more

Once the U.S. military completely pulls out of Iraq, the State Department will be on its own to handle security—a task for which it does not have the funding, the experience or the expertise.   The State Department will now be in charge of mor...   read more