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

Ninety percent of South Sudan’s population lives on less than $1 a day. Its annual budget is $1.9 billion. And yet leaders of the region, which may become an independent nation next year, want to spend $10.1 billion to transform their cities into ...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated Maura Connelly to be U.S. ambassador to the volatile Middle Eastern nation of Lebanon on June 3, 2010, and her Senate confirmation hearing was held on July 20. Connelly was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. At her c...   read more

A technology policy expert with more than two decades of experience in the public and private sectors, Lawrence E. Strickling has served as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information in the Department of Commerce since June 25, 2009, p...   read more

Too much of the U.S. government has established a bad habit of doing business again and again with the same contractors, resulting in inefficiencies and lost opportunities to save money. The Government Accountability Office came to this conclusion...   read more

In an effort to bolster their plan to secede and form their own country, officials in southern Sudan want to bring home 1.5 million refugees living in the northern part of the country and Egypt so they can vote in an independence referendum schedu...   read more

If you want a little flesh with your blackjack, it’s going to cost you. Casinos in Las Vegas are lowering their payouts at blackjack tables in order to cover the costs of exotic dancers performing in nearby “party pits,” a recent addition to the g...   read more

Eric C. Schwaab was appointed in February 2010 to run the National Marine Fisheries Service, part of the Department of Commerce. In this capacity he oversees the management and conservation of marine fisheries and the protection of marine mammals,...   read more

After being nominated by President Barack Obama on April 22, 2010, Chris Masingill was confirmed by the Senate to be federal co-chair of the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) on June 24, 2010. DRA is an independent Federal/State partnership designed ...   read more

If you thought the use of full-body scanners at airports was a violation of personal privacy, just wait. The same technology is now rolling down the streets of American cities in unmarked vans.   American Science & Engineering (AS&E), a Massachu...   read more

The Obama administration has been criticized by those on the left for its continuation of many Bush-era policies on terrorism. But one area where it differs from the previous administration is in its recruiting of spies and interrogators.   As i...   read more

Coming home has been a tragedy for many members of a U.S. Army unit stationed in Colorado. So far, 17 soldiers from Fort Carson, most of whom served in Iraq, have been charged or convicted of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter in the past fo...   read more

Next time inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic in Los Angeles County get into a fight, they’re going to feel some real heat. Using technology originally developed for the military, the Sheriff’s Department has installed the 7½-foot ...   read more

In order to keep open the possibility of installing software and updates at night, the U.S. Air Force decided several years ago that it was a good idea to have all of its PCs programmed to come on during the middle of the night and stay on continu...   read more

Historians and veterans organizations are outraged by attempts to establish commercial businesses so close to revered Civil War sites in Pennsylvania and Virginia.   The National Coalition for History and The American Legion are opposing plans t...   read more

In 1997, the United Kingdom began having its farmers vaccinate chickens for salmonella. The result: Cases of food poisoning from Salmonella Enteritidis PT4 went down from 14,771 to 581 over 12 years, a 96% decline.   U.S. regulators could have ...   read more

The latest round of funding from the U.S. Department of Education designed to reward innovation in K-12 education went almost entirely to the Eastern United States. The lone exception was Hawaii.   The eastern winners (with the amounts based on ...   read more