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

Computer mouses may become a thing of the past, with the invention of an infrared system that allows a user’s hand to do all the pointing and clicking necessary on a computer. The technology, created by Pranav Mistry at MIT, tracks a person’s hand...   read more

Two percent. That’s how much of the aid promised by the United States that so far has been given to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.   “Only 2 percent of promised reconstruction aid has been deliver...   read more

National League victories in Major League Baseball’s All-Star game are always a welcome sight for Republicans running for Congress. Since 1950, all nine elections in which the Republican Party enjoyed double-digit gains in the U.S. House of Repres...   read more

Unhappy with the city council’s budget cuts, the policy chief of Oakland, California, has threatened to stop sending officers in response to certain crimes. With 80 police officers laid off after the city and the local union were unable to reach a...   read more

Shan Zhu Qiu, an immigrant from China who fled his native country out of fear of persecution over his Falun Gong practice, has been given a second opportunity to stay in the United States. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on July 12 ordered im...   read more

Conservatives can rail all they want about the liberalism of President Barack Obama, but the truth is the man in the White House is much more like GOP idol Ronald Reagan than Democratic icon Franklin Roosevelt, says Bob Samuels, president of the U...   read more

While the Obama administration continues to decide how and when to end the military’s anti-homosexual policy, the U.S. Department of Justice is defending “don’t ask, don’t tell” against a lawsuit brought by gay Republicans.   The Log Cabin Repub...   read more

The wealth disparity between America’s richest and the poor and middle class more than tripled from 1979 to 2007, based on data that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examined from the Congressional Budget Office.   The information led ...   read more

What has saved or prolonged millions of lives may also have caused thousands of deaths, according to an InvestigateWest examination into the risks of health care workers delivering chemotherapy to cancer patients.   Derived from chemicals used t...   read more

Brian Miller really knows how to save the government money. The inspector general for the General Services Administration is so good at his job that over a four-year period, he found ways to save $160 in GSA operations for every $1 his office was ...   read more

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan has become the first sitting head of state ever to be charged by the International Criminal Court with committing crimes of genocide. The charges stem from a long campaign targeting three of Sudan’s ethnic ...   read more

Going beyond traditional methods of military training, the U.S. Marine Corps is sending its men on ride-alongs with Los Angeles police officers to learn how to apply anti-gang tactics to fighting the Taliban.   About 70 Marines, dressed in civil...   read more

It’s not out of the question that the United States might not be around long enough to see the complete cleanup of its Cold War legacy in Washington State.   Not far from the banks of the Columbia River resides the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, o...   read more

It is no wonder parents are having a tougher time these days sending their children to college. A new study by the Delta Cost Project shows college tuition at all institutions of higher learning is rising faster than income and inflation, based on...   read more

While allowing the weed-killer Atrazine to be sprayed in enormous quantities throughout the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relied on scientific studies that have been mostly funded by the industry.   A review o...   read more

The Catholic Church’s headquarters in Rome announced over the weekend that it lost money for the third year in a row. Expenses outpaced revenues for the Vatican in 2009 by $5.2 million ($314.7 million in revenue against $319.9 million in expenses)...   read more