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

The Food and Drug Administration should use the expanded powers given to it by Congress and crackdown on the level of nicotine in cigarettes, argues David Kessler, former head of the FDA during the Clinton administration. Kessler, who tried to reg...   read more

Republican Neil Combee, a former county commissioner, really wanted to run for the Florida Legislature and challenge Kelli Stargel, the GOP incumbent in the District 64 House seat. But last Friday, when the deadline passed for getting on the prima...   read more

1978. That’s when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first began developing regulations for sunscreen products—and still has not implemented anything in 32 years.   Manufacturers have been able for decades to promote their sun-block lotions ...   read more

A U.S. Air Force Base in Texas lost track of 17 military personnel visiting from Afghanistan to study English at a language school. Of the 17 who went AWOL over a period of 18 months from the Defense Language Institute English Language Center at L...   read more

Seeking to address concerns that big meat processors have too much power over market prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed new regulations designed to open up commercial opportunities for small farmers supplying chicken an...   read more

Men’s aggressive nature makes them less successful than women when it comes to playing the stock market. Researchers studied more than 29,000 men and 8,000 women who invested in stocks in the 1990s, and found men traded more but made less on their...   read more

What’s not to like, says the Catholic Church’s semi-official newspaper about the cult comedy film The Blues Brothers. With the movie’s 30th anniversary coming up, L'Osservatore Romano decided to devote a full-page story endorsing The Blues Brother...   read more

Like animals fleeing a forest fire, fish, sea birds and mammals are relocating close to the gulf coastline to avoid ocean waters polluted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Biologists report seeing dolphins and sharks in shallow areas off the Flo...   read more

More than a hundred and fifty years ago, Americans were thrown into jail for not paying their debts, until the country did away with so-called debtors’ prisons in 1833. Today, similar punishments have returned for those in over their heads in debt...   read more

Building a reliable “virtual” border fence in the American Southwest is not close to becoming a practical reality. Since 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has spent about $1 billion to deploy and test detection systems along small stretche...   read more

Following up on its investigation of factory farms that produce millions of eggs for American consumers, The Humane Society of the United States has filed a complaint against Rose Acre Farms with the Federal Trade Commission. Rose Acre, the nation...   read more

While there’s been no change at the very top, the leading immigrant groups in the United States now have a new member of the top three. After the two largest immigrant populations—Mexicans (No. 1) and Filipinos (No. 2)—Chinese are no longer third....   read more

BP’s use of a toxic dispersant to break up oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico will cause worse long-term damage to the ecosystem than had the company allowed the spill to reach coastal shorelines, contends a group of oystermen suing the petr...   read more

The trick to helping veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggling with anger issues may lie in focusing on certain symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), say researchers with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ...   read more

Yahya Wehelie, a U.S. citizen born to immigrants from Somalia, spent 18 months in Yemen. He says he was there to learn Arabic and look for a bride before deciding to return to the United States. But Wehelie’s trip home was interrupted in Egypt, wh...   read more

In a sign that Washington is taking seriously the heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, the United States’ top military commander in South Korea will take back control of an annual military exercise between American and Korean forces.   ...   read more