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

AIG, recipient of $182 billion in taxpayer dollars, is trying to squeeze money out of poor people in rural Kentucky via a local water utility. Prior to the insurance giant’s near collapse last year, which prompted Washington to step in with a hand...   read more

When Americans throw out food, they’re wasting more than just groceries. Research funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that 40% of all food produced in the United States is discarded, and with it goes a lot of wasted resources. On...   read more

Ishmael McLean, suspected of killing 24-year-old Jason Johnson in west London, managed to avoid a murder charge by intimidating witnesses with a rap video posted on YouTube. But McLean did not get off entirely after he, and accomplice Rowan Simon,...   read more

The European elk is a shy, peaceful creature—as long as it doesn’t get a hold of fallen fermented apples found in Swedish gardens. Then, it can become an aggressive animal capable of killing humans, as Agneta Westlund, 63, found out.   Westlund’...   read more

Like all his recent predecessors, President Barack Obama is appointing old friends and big party donors to diplomatic posts across the globe. The most recent example is his nomination of Beatrice Wilkinson Welters to be the next ambassador to the ...   read more

Anne Slaughter Andrew has her husband, Joseph J. Andrew, in part, to thank for her nomination as the next U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica. While the environmental lawyer and lobbyist has made friends in the Democratic Party and contributed to campai...   read more

Although the United States has deemphasized the importance of land mines in American combat operations, the Obama administration is refusing to reverse a Bush-era policy and sign an international agreement banning such weapons. The Mine Ban Treaty...   read more

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the leaders of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers did not lose out when their firms tanked in 2008. According to researchers at Harvard Law School, the top five executives at these two former Wall Street powerhouses...   read more

The Obama administration wants to use the Internet to expose mistakes by federal agencies that result in contractors or medical providers being paid more than they should for their services or products. After realizing the amount of improper payme...   read more

Described as the first quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil war, university researchers have concluded rising temperatures on the continent of Africa are likely to result in more warfare in the coming decades. A group...   read more

Delhi, India, has a serious ghost problem on its hands that has local leaders terrified. But the fright has nothing to do with spirits. Rather, the terror has to do with the realization that a local governing body, the Municipal Corporation of Del...   read more

In the wake of April Stephenson’s removal in late October 2009 as head of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), U.S. Army Auditor General Patrick J. Fitzgerald was chosen by President Barack Obama to take over the embattled agency. DCAA indepe...   read more

Republicans have tried to make a big deal about the length of the House Democrats’ health care reform plan, using it as a symbol of how much their adversaries love big government. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), in fact, claimed the Affordable Health ...   read more

Banks are not philanthropic operations, but OneWest Bank, the recipient of $814.2 million in federal bailout funds, has managed to distinguish itself as particularly ruthless when it comes to foreclosures. In Long Island, New York, a local judge ...   read more

For every Internet creation and Global Positioning System development the government has produced, it also has had its share of IT failures. And costly failures at that. Washington Technology has chosen seven of the biggest crashes by federal and ...   read more

President Obama’s choice to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has created a firestorm of criticism from labor and safety advocacy groups. FMCSA, which is part of the Department of Transportation, is charged with creating...   read more