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

The reckless greed that helped bring on the financial collapse of the housing market was aided by the once-conservative bond rating house of Moody’s, an investigation by McClatchy Newspapers found. In late 2007, Moody’s fired analysts and executiv...   read more

The Great Recession has done nothing to dampen the workloads of corporate attorneys. According to Fulbright’s 6th Annual Litigation Trends Survey Report, 42% of lawyers representing corporations are expecting an increase in lawsuits over the next ...   read more

There may come a time when statutes of limitations no longer have any bearing on cases involving rape and other crimes. Although time limits still exist in state and federal laws, prosecutors are getting around them by indicting the DNA of culprit...   read more

Friday’s news about the U.S. budget deficit was bad no matter how it was sliced. The final number for fiscal year 2009—$1.4 trillion—represented a 212% increase over the FY 2008 deficit of $455 billion. In comparison to the previous year, spending...   read more

Being a logistical nightmare has made Afghanistan a costly place to wage war. In the course of debating General Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 additional troops, lawmakers uncovered the fact that it costs $400 a gallon to fuel the vehicle...   read more

In the southern Somalia port city of Kismayo, academic achievement is rewarded with military hardware. To help celebrate the holy holiday of Ramadan, the al Qaeda-inspired Shabab insurgency sponsored a Koran recitation and general knowledge comp...   read more

Representing the largest mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia’s history, the Spruce No. 1 coal mine project came to a halt this week after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) vetoed a Clean Water Act permit. EPA officials had ...   read more

Back during the Cold War when Germany was still divided, government officials in West Germany looked forward to the regularly updated “joke report.” This collection of jokes told among those living in East Germany was gathered by West German spi...   read more

Washington’s response to the economic crisis that began last year has done little to help the average American get going again, but it has helped some of Wall Street’s most powerful institutions become stronger than ever. Reducing interest rates t...   read more

During his first nine months in office in 2001, President George W. Bush had nominated 95 judges to the federal bench. President Barack Obama? Just 23. And only three of these have been confirmed by the Senate…including Supreme Court Justice Sonia...   read more

Sniper teams from across the United States and overseas have converged at Fort Benning, Georgia, to determine the world’s best marksmen. The Ninth Annual U.S. Army International Sniper Competition has attracted 31 teams, including those from the ...   read more

When the new 4th District Court of Appeal building was completed in Santa Ana, California, Justice Eileen Moore was given the task of acquiring art for the courthouse. The problem was that she was not given a budget to do so. She tried getting ar...   read more

One upping the French, Finland has become the first nation to declare high-speed Internet access a right of all its people. While France was the first country in the world to establish the right of accessing the Web, the Finns have made history by...   read more

Change has not come to the Treasury Department which, like previous Washington administrations, is filled with former Wall Street high flyers. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s inner circle includes Gene Sperling, who earned more than $1 milli...   read more

When the Defense Department first submitted its budget request to fund American military propaganda campaigns, it asked Congress for $988 million. After the House chopped the budget in half, Pentagon officials begged lawmakers to reconsider—and ad...   read more

With local government budgets getting squeezed tighter and tighter, officials in Miami-Dade County, Florida, are considering whether to decriminalize minor offenses that often are dismissed by the courts. A total of 18 minor infractions are curren...   read more