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

Teddy B. Taylor, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service holding the rank of Minister Counselor, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu on September 21, 2009.  In a move sure to win hearts and mi...   read more

President Barack Obama continues to drag his feet over signing an international agreement banning the use of land mines, even though more than two-thirds of the Senate is in support of the U.S. becoming a party to the treaty.   Sixty-eight senat...   read more

Spending five years locked up in America’s Guantánamo Bay detention facility did not ruin Izatullah Nasrat Yar’s belief in the democratic process. The former detainee is running for a seat in Afghanistan’s national legislature, hoping to become th...   read more

The U.S. Agency for International Development is planning to spend $10 million in taxpayer money on a jobs program that will increase the outsourcing of well-paid American jobs. The funds are part of a $36 million effort by USAID to train 3,000 wo...   read more

Not all renewable energy sources are completely environmentally friendly. For instance, Canada’s Wolfe Island Eco-Power Centre2, the country’s second largest wind farm, has demonstrated itself to be a killer of birds and bats.   The first study ...   read more

Judge Kent E. Florom of Nebraska was kicked off the state’s 11th Judicial District bench by the state Supreme Court because he abused his position to help his daughter’s softball team. Florom, who served as a judge for 19 years, accepted the posit...   read more

America’s “combat mission” in Iraq will officially come to an end on August 31. But soldiers making up U.S. combat brigades won’t be coming home anytime soon…and they’ll still be engaged in combat.   President Barack Obama stated in a speech on ...   read more

War doesn’t just change man, but man’s best friend as well.   After serving a five-month tour in Iraq, Gina, a four-year-old German shepherd, returned home a different dog. According to her handler, Gina was anti-social, reacted to virtually any...   read more

When Montrell Chatman leaves for his tour of duty in Afghanistan this fall, he won’t be leaving his mother thousands of miles behind—because she’s going too.   Chatman’s mother, Sheila, is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, and like her son is ...   read more

The oil and gas industry is a real killer. Its fatality rate (30.0 per 100,000 workers) is eight times higher than the average rate for all American workers, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which is part of ...   read more

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-West Virginia) is lending his support to a plan by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to redirect monies dedicated for universal landline phone service to expanding wireless and high-speed Internet access...   read more

When asked what kept him going through nearly three decades in prison for a crime he did not commit, Michael Anthony Green credited his anger. Green is now a free man, after DNA tests showed he did not rape a woman in Houston in 1983. But it took ...   read more

Women who make it into their “golden years” are far more likely to live alone than men, according to a new report (Older Americans 2010) from the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.   Based on data from 2008, the study found w...   read more

Having been bailed out twice before, and subsidized only five years ago, the nuclear power industry is seeking even more federal assistance from taxpayers, who would be on the hook if expensive, new reactors don’t pan out.   Under the proposed s...   read more

When the weeds outside the federal courthouse in Pasadena, California, got to be too much, federal officials decided on a low-tech—and less expensive and more environmentally friendly—option for clearing away the brush: goats.   The General Serv...   read more

City officials in Rochester, New York, have a problem turning off the tap. Instead of shutting off water supplies to the city’s numerous vacant homes, the local government has continued to read the meters and compile “astonishing” water bills for ...   read more