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

While Congress struggled to adopt national healthcare reform throughout last year and into the beginning of 2010, pharmaceutical manufacturers continued to hike the price of name-brand medications.   An analysis of drug prices by the AARP Public...   read more

As the CIA under President George W. Bush used torture techniques against suspected terrorists, the agency’s medical personnel assisted such “enhanced” interrogations through experimentation designed to improve the program’s effectiveness to extra...   read more

Corporations facing investigations and lawsuits as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are putting their financial largesse to use.   BP, which was leasing the Deepwater Horizon oil platform when it exploded and sunk, has retained the inte...   read more

Willing to secure local domains and fight alongside Western forces, many of Afghanistan’s warlords are paid by U.S. and NATO commanders as “private security” businesses—even though these arrangements are threatening to undermine the West’s mission...   read more

A majority of Americans now say they are okay with homosexual relations, making it the first time this level of acceptance has topped 50%, according to Gallup.   While support for gay and lesbian lifestyles has risen among many groups since 2006...   read more

One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the existence of an H1N1 pandemic, governments around the world find themselves in possession of unused vaccines after paying billions of dollars collectively to pharmaceutical companies....   read more

American construction businesses that used Chinese-made drywall containing toxic substances have tried to either get away with their decisions without public notice or give away the material to other U.S. suppliers.   WCI Communities, an East Co...   read more

David Wallechinsky is the author of The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics and The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. He is the vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians   Introduction The World Cup, by far the bigg...   read more

Special Operations forces have taken on an importance under President Barack Obama that they didn’t enjoy with the Bush administration—which wasn’t timid about employing commandoes in the war against terror. But Obama has embraced the secretive wo...   read more

Video footage showing the seriousness of the oil spill at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was kept from the public in the early days of the crisis. But exactly who was to blame for suppressing the images is up for debate.   BP insists the U.S. ...   read more

A study of sleep behaviors by various demographic groups has found distinct differences in bedtime patterns, according to the National Sleep Foundation’s 2010 Sleep in America Poll.   For instance, African-Americans are more likely to pray or pe...   read more

National Parks and public forests are increasingly becoming dangerous places to work for federal employees. Using data obtained from the federal government, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found that attacks and threat...   read more

Having received no response to its Freedom of Information Act request, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against the federal government seeking records showing how it has been collecting Americans’ international emails and phone...   read more

Using a powerful computer model to simulate how the Deepwater Horizon spill might extend beyond the Gulf of Mexico, scientists at The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have estimated that oil could wind up on the Atlantic seaboard. ...   read more

Anyone entering the state capitol in Austin, Texas, must pass through newly-installed metal detectors, unless they’re a lawmaker, a state employee or someone with a concealed gun permit. This last exception is now being exploited by lobbyists who ...   read more

A New York mother is suing the Schenectady City School District because officials at Oneida Middle School repeatedly suspended her seventh grade son in May for wearing a plastic rosary outside of his shirt in memory of his dead brother and uncle. ...   read more