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

Nine years after beginning its investigation, the U.S. Department of Labor won a federal jury ruling against Tyson Foods for cheating 3,000 current and former employees out of wages owed to them. But the fine levied on the one of the nation’s larg...   read more

Indoor pollution is increasingly becoming as much a concern as the outdoor kind, thanks to a host of chemicals used in building materials, clothing and appliances. But researchers have discovered ordinary house plants can help neutralize indoor po...   read more

Last week, the Obama administration claimed that its economic recovery plan had created or saved 640,000 jobs. But what it didn’t highlight was that agencies were allowed to include a pay raise as a fraction of a job saved. If an agency or program...   read more

Most Americans don’t have a problem with the United States obeying international law or subjecting itself to rulings by the International Court of Justice, according to a new global survey. The poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org found that o...   read more

What do you get when you combine a lack of cultural sensitivity and political irony? The 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, brought to you by MTV. The music television network organized a U2 rock concert on Thursday to mark the occas...   read more

It took former DEA agent Richard Horn 15 years to finally win his case against the CIA for spying on him, in part because intelligence officials lied about the covert status of one of their operatives. Horn, who was stationed in Burma in the early...   read more

Robert G. Leonard of Richmond, Virginia, got more than he wanted from taking the antidepressant Trazodone. One day after taking the medication, Leonard awoke with an erection that would not stop. After two days, he finally sought emergency medical...   read more

Although the members of Congress are supposed to represent their constituents, when it comes to wealth, they are not representative. While millionaires make up only 1% of the U.S. population, they constitute 44% of all lawmakers on Capitol Hill—23...   read more

It used to be that joining the Army was a way for a young person to have a career and get in shape. But these days millions of young people have no chance whatsoever of becoming a soldier because they’re in such poor condition. The Defense Departm...   read more

Walmart may end up paying as much as $85 million to its workers for unpaid wages, according to a settlement reached this week in federal court. After combining more than 30 lawsuits, U.S. District Judge Philip Pro approved a deal that requires the...   read more

Latin American leaders have expressed concern over a new bilateral military agreement between the United States and Colombia that involves security issues related to “anti-U.S. governments” in the region. The 10-year treaty gives American military...   read more

Jacob M. Appel does not mince words when describing his feelings about private health insurance. For the bioethicist and medical historian, the system is nothing short of a criminal enterprise that should be put out of business. Leaving sick peopl...   read more

As if the federal health care overhaul didn’t have enough controversial components, the Senate has included in its version a provision requiring insurance companies to cover Christian Science prayer as a medical treatment. The idea was pushed by R...   read more

Representing a landmark indictment of the Bush administration’s extraordinary rendition program, a court in Italy on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from Milan in 2003. In the practice of extraordinary rendit...   read more

When Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” he inadvertently crafted a perfect metaphor for the modern problem of global warming now threatening the famous icy peak in Tanzania that inspired the story early in the 20th century. In Hemi...   read more

The end result was not worth the wait for the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Twenty years ago, archive officials filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the CIA to learn more about a shady Iranian character name...   read more