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

More than six months after President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Judith Ann Stock to be Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), she was finally confirmed on June 17, 2010, and pub...   read more

A native of Washington, DC, John C. Dugan was sworn in as the 29th Comptroller of the Currency in August 2005. On July 8, 2010, he announced that he would step down when his five-year term ends on August 14, 2010. Considering that his job was to r...   read more

Job opportunities are looking up these days…if you’re a broker or investment banker. While most American industries continue to offer little in the way of new employment, Wall Street is hiring.   New York securities firms have added nearly 2,00...   read more

AIG is now on the hook to pay more than $1 billion as a result of lawsuits settled in Ohio over the one-time insurance giant’s illegal business practices. The largest of the settlements, $725 million, is owed to three Ohio pension funds that claim...   read more

Cohen & Slamowitz, a New York law firm that specializes in debt collection, preys upon a system of consumer debts described by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as broken and in need of reform. Although it has only 14 lawyers, Cohen & Slamowitz m...   read more

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently joined the 6th Circuit, 9th Circuit and 4th Circuit in deciding that the Board of Immigration Appeals has jurisdiction despite an immigrant’s deportation. But the 2nd Circuit, 3rd Circuit and 11th Circuit ...   read more

Already outnumbered by its adversarial neighbor’s army, South Korea is experimenting with using armed robots to help guard the demilitarized zone that divides the country from North Korea. South Korea currently has 655,000 troops to defend itself ...   read more

A strong majority of Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is going badly and want Washington to establish a timetable for bringing home U.S forces. But despite negative opinions about the war among voters, Congress continues to oppose setting ...   read more

For residents of the Northeast wondering if the extreme heat they’ve endured this summer is above normal, the answer is yes. According to experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 is on pace to become the warmest ...   read more

Most confirmation hearings for ambassador nominees go off without a hitch. But this was not the case with Thomas A. Shannon Jr., President Barack Obama’s choice for ambassador to Brazil.   The veteran diplomat irked Republican Senator Charles Gr...   read more

Theodore W. (Ted) Tozer, President Barack Obama’s choice to take the helm as President of the Government National Mortgage Association, also known as Ginnie Mae, was sworn in February 24, 2010. Established by Congress in 1968, Ginnie Mae was desig...   read more

Steve L. Muro, who was named Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs on January 21, 2009, has spent more than 30 years working for the nation’s military cemeteries, rising from auto mechanic to acting head of the National Cemetery Administrati...   read more

BP’s oil disaster is threatening to choke off the oxygen in some portions of the Gulf of Mexico as a result of too much natural gas having leaked from the broken well. Scientists have found natural gas levels accumulating at a rate of 100,000 time...   read more

GlaxoSmithKline got some very bad news this week from an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when it voted to restrict the sales of Avandia, a controversial diabetes drug. Concerned about reports of the drug causing heart atta...   read more

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, it’s a great time to buy a house if you have a near-perfect credit record, or to refinance a home loan if you have equity. But for the millions of Americans struggling to get by or just find a job, ge...   read more

The nation’s worst oil spill disaster involved a company that cut corners to boost profits, failsafe systems that just failed, backup plans that never existed and federal regulators who were too close to industry. A summation of the current Gulf o...   read more