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

Last year may have been bad for a lot of American families struggling to survive the bad economic times, but the wealthy had no trouble rebounding from the 2008 downturn and expanding their ranks.   A survey conducted by the Spectrem Group found...   read more

The U.S. government has a long way to go before it fulfills decades-old requests for classified documents, despite the promises made by President Barack Obama to make federal agencies more open to the public.   According to The National Security...   read more

Eric Workman, the top student at Greenwood High School in Indiana, does not want the coming graduation ceremony to feature a student-led prayer, and has filed a lawsuit to stop the religious activity. Aided by the American Civil Liberties Union of...   read more

Lehman Brothers managed to conceal from the outside world a multi-billion-dollar mess that was years in the making, according to an audit investigation released last week. But the size and scope of Lehman’s manipulative accounting has led some Wal...   read more

The Senate is moving closer to reducing the disparity between jail times for cocaine and crack, but is not ready yet to equalize punishments altogether. The issue is a sensitive one because, according to recent statistics, African-Americans accoun...   read more

Not a single member of the House of Representatives objected to the impeachment of Judge G. Thomas Porteous, making him the 15th judge indicted by Congress since the founding of the country. Lawmakers voted 412-0, 410-0, 416-0 and 423-0 on the fou...   read more

Deciding a big loss is better than a complete loss, the Department of the Treasury chose to buy shares of Midwest Banc Holdings at above market value in order to keep the ailing institution from sliding even further into trouble. The U.S. governme...   read more

It is for good reason that there are laws on the books preventing people from buying and selling organs in the United States, writes Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune. But concerns about ghoulish markets developing around dying patients should ...   read more

When is a city not a city? When the media actually does its homework and stops taking the Department of Defense at its word.   In February, the U.S. and NATO allies launched a major offensive against the Taliban, during which troops had the task...   read more

It’s okay to use the expressions “In God We Trust” on American currency and “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate court rejected arguments by attorney and atheist Michael Newdow, wh...   read more

It used to be the only Americans not required to pay income taxes were the poor. But thanks to changes in federal law since the early 1990s, a growing number of the middle-class have had no income tax obligation—meaning they get everything back fr...   read more

What does Germany have to hide by keeping secret the files on one of the Nazis’ most notorious leaders? Possibly details about how the Germans and other Europeans helped Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann flee the country after the end of World Wa...   read more

The Justice Department is investigating Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology company that dominates much of the seed market, to see if it has violated federal antitrust laws. Enormous jumps in the cost of seeds prompted Justice officials to be...   read more

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is getting too expensive for its own good. The combat aircraft was supposed to cost $50 million per plane to produce, according to the Department of Defense in 2001 when it said it planned to buy 2,852 of them. Now, t...   read more

Prison officials in Ohio prevented convicted killer Lawrence Reynolds from taking his own life, and are now nursing him back to health so they can execute him. Reynolds took an overdose of prescription drugs just prior to his execution date. After...   read more

The Chief Information Officers Council, tasked with bolstering the federal government’s IT needs, does a lousy job of preserving emails for federal offices, according to the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The governmen...   read more