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

With a recovery like this, who needs a recession?   According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S. economy has officially been out of the Great Recession for 15 months, since things bottomed out in June 2009. But regardless of...   read more

Unhappy with a provision of the federal healthcare reform law banning the practice of denying coverage to children with pre-existing medical conditions, large insurance companies have decided to stop offering child-only policies in certain state...   read more

Small businesses throughout the United States aren’t expanding their payrolls, in large part because banks continue to subject them to tighter lending standards than those imposed on big business.   A congressional report stated that hiring by s...   read more

Meridian Industries walked away in June 2003 from its textiles mill in Belmont, North Carolina, and then sold the property to another owner in 2006. Meridian left behind 300 containers filled with unidentified hazardous waste, a big no-no accord...   read more

In an effort to remove what’s not really there, the Texas Board of Education wants to rid “pro-Islamic bias” from school textbooks that don’t contain such material.   “There’s a lot of people that think that, and I think rightfully so, that th...   read more

Monica Castro thought she had a deal. In exchange for telling the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service about the whereabouts of her daughter’s father, Omar Gallardo, an illegal immigrant whose violent behavior caused Castro to flee her ho...   read more

Chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, has begun defending itself in a Philadelphia courtroom against claims that it is responsible for an outbreak of brain cancer cases in a small town in northern Illinois. The plain...   read more

Home foreclosures have become a serious problem for the Department of Defense, where financial instability can lead to an employee losing his or her security clearance. An analysis of Pentagon records by Sheldon Cohen, a national security law ex...   read more

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators want to go after overseas websites that traffic in pirated entertainment, such as movies and music.   The effort, known as the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, seeks to put file-sharing we...   read more

To commemorate its 10th anniversary in existence, the search engine Ask Jeeves, which is now known as Ask.com, has produced a top 10 of “unanswerables,” based on the frequency that visitors to the website have asked certain questions. After sort...   read more

If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such.   FDA...   read more

The days of publicly-financed sports stadiums are largely over for most American communities, and it’s just as well. For today, decades after many such venues were built to accommodate professional football and/or baseball teams, local residents...   read more

Federal officials have known for at least four years of serious fraud allegations involving the engineering and construction firm Louis Berger Group, which has handled important rebuilding projects in Afghanistan. But those accusations didn’t di...   read more

To the delight of defense attorneys, and the contempt of prosecutors, Missouri has decided to inform its judges, before they hand down sentences, how much it will cost to imprison convicted criminals versus the expense of putting them on probati...   read more

One of the largest labor unions in California faces the prospect of losing thousands of members as a splinter group seeks to pull away from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).   Members of SEIU have been given the choice of stayi...   read more

Saudi Arabia hasn’t fought a war since the 1930s, and already spends about 13% of its GDP on defense—so why would it agree to buy even more weapons as part of the richest arms sales ever by the U.S. government?   One possible explanation, acco...   read more