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

A federal appeals court has ruled it was okay for General Electric to use computer software copyrighted by another company even though it hacked its way into the protected technology. The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by MGE UPS Systems, manuf...   read more

According to a government watchdog group, the Center for Responsive Politics, about a third of all lobbyists in Washington, DC, used to work for the federal government. But the percentage among oil lobbyists with “revolving door connections” is dr...   read more

The agency responsible for ensuring that technology that can be used to build weapons of mass destruction does not fall into the wrong hands has a new leader, following a confirmation delay of more than six months. Eric L. Hirschhorn, whom Preside...   read more

In becoming the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General James F. Amos would represent a major break with tradition, making him the first leader of the armed service with a background as a fighter pilot. All previous commandants have been comm...   read more

Federal prison officials have eliminated thousands of jobs for inmates over the past two years to help close a $65 million budget gap. Described as one of the largest cutbacks in the 75-year history of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI), the lay...   read more

A 20-year veteran of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, David M. Kennedy has served as the acting assistant administrator for the National Ocean Service since October 2009. He has specialized in dealing with oil and chemical spi...   read more

Following the Enron accounting scandal, Congress adopted the Sarbanes-Oxley (“Sarbox”) corporate reform law to reduce the risk of future corporate fiascoes by bolstering protections for whistleblowers. But in the eight years since the law was pass...   read more

Patrick Corvington was sworn in as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) on February 18, 2010. He has spent much of his career in the non-profit world, focusing on issues ranging from homelessness to ...   read more

A career officer in the Senior Foreign Service, Carol A. Rodley is serving her second tour in Cambodia, having worked in the Southeast Asian country in the late 1990s. Although she has served in many capacities in the State Department, Rodley is w...   read more

Environmentalists have been pushing for the removal of old dams on Western rivers and streams to make it easier for salmon to migrate upstream. But a lawsuit filed in Oregon claims just the opposite—that the tearing down of the century-old Gold Ra...   read more

Perhaps Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano didn’t get the memo about the Obama administration being all for greater openness in government.   An investigation by the Associated Press has found that the Department of Homeland Security sent Freed...   read more

As if BP didn’t have enough public relations problems on its hands stemming from the gulf oil spill, it turns out the oil company doctored some of the photos it released to the media demonstrating its response to the disaster.   First, BP commun...   read more

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut tried to get rid of women’s volleyball and replace it with competitive cheerleading. The move prompted a lawsuit from female students on the volleyball team, who successfully argued in federal court that the un...   read more

Hoping to help resolve the constitutional crisis unfolding on the tiny Islamic island nation, the U.S. government dispatched Robert Blake, assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, to the Maldives. The country of little more than 30...   read more

Sunshine is aplenty in Florida, where candidates for Congress are getting a little light shone on them as part of CREW’s list of Crooked Candidates 2010. The watchdog group (aka Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) decided to scou...   read more

Federal officials have had a difficult time getting BP and Transoecan witnesses to testify before hearings held in New Orleans that are designed to determine the causes of the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.   To date, nine wi...   read more