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

When the United States fought World War II, it spent $4.1 trillion (in inflation-adjusted dollars) while putting together a fighting force of 16 million men and women and battling the Axis powers (Japan, Germany, Italy) on three continents. Flash ...   read more

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s removal of a 60-year-old restriction on corporate political donations, companies are coming out in support of the Republican favorite for the Minnesota governor’s race.   Retailer Target has contributed $150,000 to ...   read more

After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Washington took ownership of a special fund sanctioned by the United Nations that held Iraqi oil sales revenues for the purposes of buying humanitarian aid. American officials with the Coalition Provi...   read more

White men continue to dominate the ranks of the federal workforce, while white women and Latinos hold fewer jobs than they should compared to their overall representation in the U.S. population. Of the 2.8 million federal workers, 55.9% were men a...   read more

Following the abrupt stoppage three songs into the Kings of Leon concert last week, fans became irate, screaming: “Bullshit!”   No, pigeon shit.   Playing at the Verizon Amphitheatre in St. Louis, members of the rock band found themselves bomb...   read more

It’s not supposed to work this way: company profits going up while sales lag. But that’s the business reality in today’s post-recession economy, as executives are either holding off on hiring new workers—or even cutting jobs—in order to put their ...   read more

Attention parents: if you want your children to work in a well-paid, high-demand field, encourage them to join the war against cyber threats.   The U.S. government today has about 1,000 computer specialists who fight off hackers attempting to in...   read more

Banks continue to fail in large numbers across the country, marking the second consecutive year in which more than 100 financial institutions have shuttered their doors. After 140 banks collapsed in 2009, this year has witnessed 103 failures so fa...   read more

With prices for cocoa having already risen 150% since 2008, makers of chocolate are up in arms over a British hedge fund manager’s recent buying spree of the valuable crop. Anthony Ward, head of the investment firm Armajaro, now controls the equiv...   read more

Former U.S. Army General Eric Shinseki probably knows something about Trojan horses from his military history. Shinseki, now the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been accused by critics of sending a Trojan bill to Congress that does...   read more

A federal judge has backed CIA efforts to conceal information about treatment of detainees, even if the suppressed records contain details about illegal activity on the part of the intelligence agency.   U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rul...   read more

In the wake of the Upper Big Ranch mine accident in April that killed 29 workers, National Public Radio has reported that safety and health violations in the American coal industry have gone up by a third since 2006. The story focused on the West ...   read more

University scientists willing to help BP fight off numerous court cases stemming from the gulf oil spill can make $250 an hour. The oil company has been reaching out to experts at public universities along the gulf coast, and has reportedly hired ...   read more

Being an engineering battalion instead of an infantry one has not made life any safer for the 700 members of a U.S. Army unit out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The 20th Engineer Brigade’s 27th Engineer Battalion has suffered eight fatalities in t...   read more

U-Haul, the nation’s largest one-way truck rental business, will have its pricing schemes monitored for the next 20 years by the federal government after being caught colluding with competitors to charge customers more money.   An investigation ...   read more

The fight may be over in Congress involving healthcare reform, but it is still being waged at the regulatory level in many states as insurance companies seek to include various overhead expenses under the heading “patient welfare.”   The new fed...   read more