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

It may have lacked the military and foreign policy bravado that came with the ouster of Panama’s leader nearly 20 years ago, but Pavlo Lazarenko’s sentencing in U.S. court last week was nonetheless noteworthy. The former prime minister of Ukraine ...   read more

Few peoples of the world have endured as much conflict and upheaval as the Afghans during the past 30 years. Oxfam conducted an examination of Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the present conflict fought between the Unit...   read more

David Stokes is no fan of President Barack Obama. The only way the conservative Virginia pastor would vote for Obama is if his opponent was “Harry Reid, or Boss Tweed.” Stokes is convinced that “the president and his advisors have a socialist bent...   read more

White space. That’s why AT&T recently sued Verizon in civil court…because a Verizon advertisement showed a U.S. map of its competitor’s wireless coverage areas. The abundance of white space on the map implied that AT&T’s cell phone program failed ...   read more

A picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of Nathalie Blanchard of Quebec, Canada, it can also be worth thousands of dollars in lost benefits. The 29-year-old IBM employee, diagnosed with severe depression, spent more than a year and a ...   read more

In what investors are calling a win-win opportunity that benefits struggling homeowners, Wall Street is buying up mortgages from Main Street and reducing the amount Americans owe to the bank. The scheme is not born out of altruism, however.   In...   read more

According to a report published by a panel of experts for the UN Security Council, the Darfur arms embargo has been blatantly violated by all parties, including Sudanese government forces, allied Janjaweed militias, rebel groups and insurgents fro...   read more

The federal stimulus plan has been great for investing in clean energy projects—as long as you’re a foreign company. Almost $850 million, out of $1.05 billion in stimulus money, has been given to overseas renewable-energy businesses, some of whi...   read more

The nation’s central bank has never been subjected to an outside audit, but growing frustration in Congress with the Federal Reserve may cause that to change. On Thursday, the House Finance Committee approved a bipartisan amendment that grants the...   read more

Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington soon will have a new kind of anti-terrorism personnel to guard the nation’s Pacific fleet of nuclear submarines. Specially-trained dolphins and sea lions will be deployed next year in the harbor to detect int...   read more

Whether it’s using human spies or launching attacks in cyberspace, China is stepping up its intelligence efforts against American security. Experts from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission told Congress this week in a report tha...   read more

For more than 70 years the hiring practice at the Lawry’s restaurant chain was men need not apply for food server positions because only women were sought. That discriminatory policy is now coming to an end after the Equal Employment Opportunity C...   read more

The Great Recession has left millions of Americans hungry not only for jobs but even food itself. A new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows “food insecurity” rose dramatically in 2008—to the highest levels since the federal governme...   read more

More than 100 unsolved murders from the Civil Rights era are still under investigation by the FBI, although officials are encountering numerous obstacles to closing the cases. Since the FBI launched its Civil Rights-Era Cold Case Initiative in 200...   read more

When it comes to taxation at the state and local level, no government is being truly fair to the poor, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). Their assessment of all 50 state tax systems revealed varying levels of regre...   read more

Greece has built a new museum to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles, or Elgin Marbles, from the British Museum. The Parthenon Marbles are symbols of ancient Greek glory that were chiseled off the Parthenon temple two centuries ago by Lord Elgin. Greece...   read more