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

In order to protect the earth from devastating collisions with objects from outer space, scientists must first know what’s out there—which may take longer than anticipated unless the federal government appropriates more money. This finding is one ...   read more

British television is set to make history on January 27 when it airs the first movie filmed entirely by chimpanzees. The film is the product of an 18-month research project by primatologist Betsy Herrelko, who filmed her 11 subjects through “Chimp...   read more

In more than 60 years of data collecting, the unemployment gap between men and women has never been wider. As of the end of the third quarter in 2009, the jobless rate for men was 10.5% and 8.7% for women, according to the Economic Policy Institut...   read more

The FBI’s use of the so-called “comparative bullet lead analysis” has been discredited by federal research, forcing the law enforcement agency to review nearly 2,500 convictions that may have been aided by the now debunked theory.   First develo...   read more

Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, received two home loans worth more than $1 million from Bank of America last summer while helping oversee the bank’s federal bailout, raising questions of conflict of interest. The di...   read more

Shopping in the District of Columbia became more expensive as of January 1 because of a new mandatory five-cent tax on grocery bags. Local officials imposed the first-in-the-nation tax as part of DC’s Skip the Bag, Save the River campaign to clean...   read more

Mircea Geoana, candidate for president of Romania and former Romanian ambassador to the United States, has accused his rival, incumbent Traian Basescu, of employing a parapsychologist who directed a “negative energy attack” against Geoana. Geoana ...   read more

The recent Supreme Court decision upholding the right of “personhood” for corporations and unions, and allowing them unlimited spending in elections appears to have had an immediate effect on the next presidential contest in 2012.   Previous pol...   read more

After more than six years in country, the U.S. Marines are finally leaving Iraq. A ceremony this weekend formally marked the changeover with elements of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st Armored Division assuming responsibility fo...   read more

Had President Barack Obama kept his promise following his inauguration, this week would have marked the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Instead, media stories reported that a special task force created by Obama has recommended...   read more

Heavy job losses during the current recession have caused the ranks of private-sector unions to plummet, resulting in government employees becoming the largest unionized force in the United States. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics s...   read more

An American astronaut orbiting high above the earth has posted the first ever message to Twitter—for real, this time. Thanks to the installation of new software aboard the International Space Station, astronaut T.J. Creamer managed to post a messa...   read more

In this age of energy efficiency, it is comforting to know that the world’s longest burning light bulb has been around since just after the turn of the century—the 20th century that is. At the Livermore-Pleasanton fire station No. 6 in Northern Ca...   read more

The headline on the press release for the ABC News/Washington Post poll released on January 18 read “High Support for Medical Marijuana.” The results emphasized that 81% of Americans support legalizing the medical use of marijuana and 56% think do...   read more

Appearing before a congressional committee investigating the Christmas Day bomb attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers this week that a special anti-terrorism unit known as the “High Val...   read more

Using what it calls a “completely unscientific but accurate statistical equation,” the Advocate magazine has compiled a list of the 15 gayest cities in the United States. The point of the ranking is to show how homosexuals are continuing to becom...   read more