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

A group of Chicago police officers has been accused of making false arrests to pad their overtime, according to a lawsuit filed against the city. Clinton Ware claims in her federal suit that she was arrested on phony charges that were later droppe...   read more

Opponents of gun control are trying a new legislative tactic to skirt federal laws regulating the sale of firearms. Lawmakers in Montana and Tennessee have adopted legislation stating that guns or ammunition manufactured in these states and that r...   read more

Employers who don’t give their workers paid sick leave may end up helping worsen the H1N1 pandemic in the United States. It is estimated that about 40% of all private-sector employees do not receive paid sick days, forcing those who come down with...   read more

Perhaps anti-terrorist campaigns in rugged South Asia need to begin employing bears to do the dirty work. Reports out of India say two members of the militant group Hizbul Mujahideen were killed by a Himalayan Black Bear in Kashmir after they soug...   read more

A new face has begun appearing alongside the immigrant day laborers outside home improvement stores: Caucasian-Americans. Las Vegas was one of the first cities to note the new trend, brought on by a local unemployment rate of almost 14% that has m...   read more

News of CIT’s filing for bankruptcy won’t spoil Christmas for holiday-hungry retailers, but it will amount to an empty stocking for taxpayers. CIT provides short-term financing to small- and mid-sized businesses that manufacture and supply merchan...   read more

Democrats promised after taking control of Congress in 2007 to be more fiscally responsible than Republicans. But an analysis of all legislation introduced since then shows the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss, according to Demian ...   read more

Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs sold more than $40 billion in securities just prior to the collapse of the housing market without telling its buyers of the risky investments that had been packaged together. As a result of the investment bank’...   read more

More than 10% of Americans may suffer from poor sleep, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After getting feedback from 403,981 respondents, CDC researchers found that West Virginia had the high...   read more

Having endured more than four decades of authoritarian rule behind the former Soviet Union’s “Iron Curtain,” Poland was not happy to learn that Russia practiced invading its country during a recent war games exercise. The mock attack was carried o...   read more

Executive compensation hasn’t just been going up on Wall Street. The salaries of private university presidents also have leaped this decade, during which the heads of some higher education institutions first eclipsed the $1 million mark. Only fi...   read more

The United States’ resolve to back President Hamid Karzai showed no signs of wavering over the weekend even while serious concerns continued to be expressed over the legitimacy of Afghanistan’s ruler. On November 2, Afghanistan's Independent Elect...   read more

It’s not uncommon for one part of the federal government to not know what another is planning even when both are working on the same thing. But what happened in Chicago late last week was particularly intriguing, in light of the fact that heads of...   read more

The nation’s largest banks continue to use credit card policies considered “unfair or deceptive” by the federal government, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trust. With many of the provisions of the Credit CARD Act not going into ef...   read more

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was incensed on Friday upon learning that House Democratic leaders had quietly dropped his provision for allowing states to create their own single-payer health insurance program as part of the federal health ref...   read more

Reaffirming earlier accounts of FBI opposition to torturing terrorism suspects, documents declassified on Friday revealed special agents investigated CIA actions against detainees and that Justice Department officials even considered prosecuting i...   read more