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

Concerned over the future of the Great Lakes’ fish supply, five states have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking the government to take action to stop the spread of the Asian carp. Officials in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylv...   read more

Producing large amounts of electricity and carbon dioxide don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand, not if a company has diversified its means of power generation to include alternative sources of energy.   Take for instance NextEra Energy, the nation...   read more

A union representing federal workers is trying to derail a U.S. Air Force pilot project that could lead to air bases across the country hiring private contractors to provide food services to military personnel.   Under the Food Transformation In...   read more

Millions of Americans are not ready for retirement, according to Dallas Salisbury, president of the Alliance for Investor Education and the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The numbers Salisbury provided to AlterNet are startling:   One-thir...   read more

The special watchdog created by the federal government to oversee spending in Afghanistan is doing a lousy job, according to other government watchdogs.   At issue is the work of The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Recons...   read more

Either Thurman Higginbotham couldn’t wait to go on vacation, or he wanted nothing to do with testifying before Congress about the controversy at Arlington National Cemetery.   Higginbotham, who had served as deputy superintendent for the nationa...   read more

Cutting back on government spending to reduce the deficit is wrongheaded, argues Hale “Bonddad” Stewart at FiveThirtyEight. Stewart says economic austerity plans have proven to be a bad idea in Europe, where the results have been high unemployment...   read more

After being denied re-entry into the United States for two months, Yahya Wehelie finally has been allowed to return to Virginia. The U.S.-born citizen of Somali parents spent 18 months in Yemen to learn Arabic and find a wife before winding up stu...   read more

For someone who lost her job because of President Barack Obama’s education plan, Joyce Irvine is being a really good sport about her situation. But that doesn’t come as a surprise to those who know the Vermont elementary school principal who has w...   read more

Graffiti from such gangs as the Maniac Latin Disciples, the Gangster Disciples and the Latin Kings is prevalent not just in the inner city of Chicago, but also on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s because gang members are joining...   read more

The Obama administration is being accused of getting away with crackdowns on government whistleblowers that President George W. Bush would have been publicly admonished for.   The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has allegedly go...   read more

U.S. government contractors may be engaging in sex trafficking in Iraq and Afghanistan, but officials in Washington appear to be taking no action despite a law created to discourage the illicit behavior.   According to the law approved eight yea...   read more

It took 10 years, as well as officers from the U.S. Marshals, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Puerto Rico, but José Figueroa Agosto is finally behind bars once again.   Alias “Junior” and known as the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean, Ag...   read more

America’s short-term memory troubles have been both a blessing and a curse for President Barack Obama. On the downside is the fact that only 34% of Americans seem to know that the government’s bailout of banks in 2008 was enacted under the Bush ad...   read more

Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission are crowing over the fine levied on Goldman Sachs for allegedly defrauding investors in the 2007 Abacus CDO, saying the $550 million penalty is the largest ever handed down against a Wall Street ...   read more

The deaths of eleven workers in the explosion of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil platform Deepwater Horizon, has highlighted the importance of worker safety on the job. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsib...   read more