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

When experts appear on any of the myriad news channels, the question not being asked is: “Who do they work for?” Increasingly, the talking heads offering their take on important political or economic matters have their own financial stakes at risk...   read more

Described by local media as “a cover-up of shocking breadth,” New Orleans police officers are now being accused by one of their own of falsifying reports and planting evidence in a post-Katrina shooting that left two citizens dead and four other...   read more

In need of extra revenue before the Great Recession hit, local governments last decade turned to banks offering interest rate swaps—described by activist Mike Elk as “the equivalent of a payday loan” for consumers short on cash—which only left cit...   read more

Zombies in Minnesota have had their day in court, and won. A group dressed up as the undead to protest “mindless” consumerism at a July 2006 festival in Minneapolis were arrested by local police for disorderly conduct, resulting in a two-night sta...   read more

Pilots of the United States’ most advanced fighter aircraft, the F-35, will wear not just any ordinary helmet. Those climbing into the cockpit will strap on their own custom-made helmet created from a laser scan of the pilot’s skull. The technolog...   read more

Thanks to a conservative shift in the U.S. Supreme Court, government regulators are now limited in enforcing the nation’s toughest water pollution law, a development that has put the drinking water of millions of Americans at risk.   An investig...   read more

Political asylum, normally reserved for immigrants fleeing torture, imprisonment or threats of deaths, has been awarded to a German family wanting to home-school their children. Near the end of January, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, along with their ...   read more

The Department of Defense under President George W. Bush carried out illegal spying on numerous American organizations, including Planned Parenthood. This revelation surfaced after the Electronic Freedom Foundation received more than 800 heavily-r...   read more

Serving in the U.S. armed forces really isn’t so bad from a financial standpoint, according to Carlton Meyer, a former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Contrary to popular myth about low wages in the military, soldiers today can easily out-earn t...   read more

When the last massive solar storm struck earth, modern civilization was without the electronic- and wireless-based communications that are now so critical to day-to-day living. Researchers recently conducted a simulation to see how countries might...   read more

Combined with an earlier court decision, the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that lifted restrictions on corporate and union donations may also lead to these powerful interests contributing for and against campaigns without disclosing their parti...   read more

After Andrew Joseph Stack III committed suicide by flying his plane into a federal building in Austin, Texas, on February 18, the media gave him a lot of coverage, and some people even labeled him a hero for his violent attack on the Internal Reve...   read more

Military and civilian personnel will soon be able to access social networking websites from the Department of Defense’s non-classified computer network, according to a new policy. The Pentagon has decided to allow soldiers, as well as civilian wor...   read more

Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts want to build a plant that can convert coal into fertilizer and have deliberately chosen the name of a Dr. Seuss character known for its eco-friendly association to brand the industrial operation. But the attorney fo...   read more

Described as a once in a half century event by scientists, an enormous iceberg smashed into a peninsula of ice in Antarctica, causing the protruding ice shelf to break off and become an iceberg the size of Luxembourg. The now free-floating iceberg...   read more

Emails discussing the early development of the Bush administration’s use of torture against detainees were deleted several years ago by a key Department of Justice (DOJ) official, prompting the National Archives and Records Administration and othe...   read more