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

Small island nations throughout the world are vulnerable to rising sea levels, which is why their representatives called for a study at the climate change talks currently being held in Bonn, Germany. But the effort to examine the challenges and da...   read more

The amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico could be 12 times higher the federal government originally estimated, based on new figures released out of Washington. The U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Department of the Int...   read more

The Department of Defense was told by Congress in 2008 to administer tests to soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in order to check for possible brain injuries. But more than half a million troops have not received such screening upon com...   read more

For two years the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been trying to create a life sciences award in the name of the dictator of the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who donated $3 mi...   read more

Forty-eight hours before the House voted in December on a reform plan affecting the financial industry, at least eight lawmakers held fundraisers or received substantial contributions from special interests that had a stake in the legislation. Tho...   read more

An organization representing small businesses is suing NASA because the space agency refuses to release records of its contracts. The American Small Business League suspects NASA has improperly awarded contracts intended for small businesses to Un...   read more

Fearful corporations will spend heavily this election in the wake of a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling, House Democrats are offering to exempt the National Rifle Association (NRA) from a broad campaign-finance bill. The controversial move, which may...   read more

Acting as though it has martial-law authority, BP has hired private security to guard beaches contaminated by the oil spill—and in the process prevented journalists from interviewing clean-up crews.   For two days in a row, news anchor Scott Wal...   read more

Lawmakers in Congress are big believers in doing unto others as they would not do unto themselves, when it comes to financial conflicts of interest. While representatives and senators are happy to pass laws forbidding federal officials from having...   read more

There are only two countries that have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits the use of child soldiers: the United States and Somalia. Perhaps then it is no surprise to learn that American taxpayer dollars are goi...   read more

Over one recent six-month period, the members of the U.S. House of Representatives spent more than $670 million on staff salaries, travel, supplies and contracting out for services—an average of $3.7 million a day for expenditures. Using data coll...   read more

While there is no shortage of depressing news these days leading to questions about the United States’ long-term presence in Afghanistan, there’s one word that perhaps guarantees an American presence in the country for years to come: minerals.   ...   read more

It likely is just a matter of time before unmanned aircraft, including the type being used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, are flying over America’s friendly skies. State and federal officials, especially the Department of Homeland Security, ar...   read more

Watching the World Cup can be bad for your help, if you live in Somalia. On June 12, Islamic fundamentalists of the Hezbal Islam rebel group killed two Somalis who were watching the soccer match between Argentina and Nigeria in a home near Mogadis...   read more

It survived Hurricane Camille in 1969. It survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It survived more than a century’s worth of economic recessions and depressions. But P&J Oyster Company couldn’t withstand the oil spill of 2010.   First opened for bus...   read more

Until now, federal regulators relied on a U.S.-based inspection operation to certify organic goods imported from China. But after discovering that the inspector—Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) of Nebraska—was using Chinese government e...   read more