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

Leaders in Pakistan have been vehemently denying claims started by a religious leader that security company Xe, formerly Blackwater, has thousands of contractors working in the nation’s capital of Islamabad. Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman, leader of Jami...   read more

Federal employees, who enjoy a variety of benefits as government workers, are not getting a deal on generic drugs from the CVS chain of pharmacies if they belong to Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance plans. A review of drug pricing by a group...   read more

Would a tax by any other name smell the same to Americans? That’s what psychological researchers at Columbia University wanted to find out when they asked 898 taxpayers about hypothetical plans to help the environment by taxing products that spew ...   read more

It wasn’t until he was thrown into prison for armed robbery that Shon R. Hopwood found his calling in life. While serving a 10-year sentence for holding up banks in rural Nebraska, Johnson spent time in the prison law library, where he studied pro...   read more

There is no truly safe way for consumers to dispose of unwanted medications, according to officials in Maine, which has led to a push for legislation requiring the pharmaceutical industry to collect and destroy leftover drugs.   For years Americ...   read more

For some Americans it’s no questions asked. Bring your millions of dollars looted from foreign treasuries and spend lavishly in the United States, or simply stuff it into domestic bank accounts, including bundles of cash smuggled in on the perso...   read more

The story of Shoshana Johnson differs markedly from that of Jessica Lynch, the Army POW whose rescue in Iraq received great fanfare in the media back in 2003. Contrary to how the Bush administration and the media at that time portrayed the inciden...   read more

Corporations now can give more than ever to political campaigns, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that businesses’ donations are a protected form of free speech. But day laborers in California are arguing they deserve the same kind of leg...   read more

Membership in the U.S. Senate has been likened to that of an exclusive club, both because of its limited number of seats (100) and the fact that most senators tend to be wealthy individuals. Income level, in fact, prompted Annie Lowery of The Wash...   read more

More than 70 political appointees to federal posts are being held up in the U.S. Senate by one man—Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL)—who wants approximately $40 billion in programs for his state, or else. Critics have accused Shelby of extortion in hi...   read more

Eight American soldiers died last October trying to defend a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan that the military was already planning to give up. The troops were part of the 3rd Squadron of the 61st Cavalry Regiment stationed at Combat Outpost...   read more

It was good news/bad news for Bank of America last Thursday. On the same day its lawyers announced a new settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its handling of the September 2008 Merrill Lynch takeover, bank executives w...   read more

Shaken by a massive cyberattack in December that originated in China, Google is turning to the government’s top electronic spying operation, the National Security Agency (NSA), for help. The Internet search-engine giant has declined to reveal the ...   read more

Take the Fountain of Youth, throw in some Blade Runner and you have the Department of Defense’s latest futuristic concept for warfare. Known as “BioDesign,” the program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks to create “synt...   read more

Unable to get by on tax revenues alone, fire departments across the country have turned to charging people who need their help. ABC News reported one instance in which a woman who lost her home to fire suffered the added misery of getting billed $...   read more

There’s pay-to-play, referring to the money-driven nature of our political system, and now there’s pay-to-overthrow, thanks to a new law on the books in South Carolina. Whether it’s al-Qaeda, Hamas, or even an American fascist group, all terrorist...   read more