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 M4 rifle is the main weapon of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, with more than 500,000 in service. Although the vast majority of soldiers are said to have no problems with the weapon, the M4 proved unreliable in a deadly fir...   read more

Coming off a bad month of stock market losses, the insurance industry launched a last-minute scare attack this weekend against Democratic health reforms. Citing a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Karen Ignagni, president of the trade gro...   read more

Federal prosecutors during the Bush administration sometimes required defendants to waive their right to DNA testing as part of a guilty plea. Justice Department officials at that time argued there was no point allowing those who had confessed to ...   read more

One argument in favor of national health care reform is based on the fact that quality medical care is not equally available at the state level. To prove this point, The Commonwealth Fund has again published its State Scorecard on Health System Pe...   read more

To help finance the U.S. military effort during World War II, the federal government sold war bonds to millions of Americans, many of whom never bothered to cash them in once the conflict ended. More often than not, this was because of the 40-year...   read more

A recent survey of intensive care unit workers at the VA hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, found that more than 60% of them would not want to be a patient in their own ward. This comes as no surprise given the poor level of care veterans have recei...   read more

Reinforcing criticism of his too-close relationship with Wall Street, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is reportedly in touch with executives of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs on a regular, sometimes daily, basis, spending more tim...   read more

Last year may have been a bad one for many areas of the financial sector, but not for banks when it came to overdraft fees. A report by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) says banks and credit unions collected nearly $24 billion in overdraft...   read more

A comprehensive survey on children’s exposure to violence has revealed that nearly half (46.3%) of those interviewed were physically assaulted within the past year—and more than half (56.7%) have been assaulted during their lifetime. According to ...   read more

For the first time since 2002, U.S. soldiers have been killed in the Philippines. On September 29, a landmine blast on the Philippine island of Jolo killed two soldiers as well as a Filipino marine. Thirty-seven-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Christopher...   read more

Democratic state Senator Linda Puller of Virginia thinks it’s wrong that at a time when energy consumption is vital and money tight, Americans are forbidden from using clotheslines to do their laundry. So Puller introduced legislation in the Virgi...   read more

When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) decides how to distribute funds for airport improvements, it uses a prioritization system to help determine which projects are the most important. But that system didn’t prevent FAA officials from all...   read more

If the health care reform plan currently in the House of Representatives becomes law, it will shift income from the top of society down to the middle class. An analysis performed by the Tax Foundation concluded that by 2016, when the plan will be ...   read more

The average unemployed American is currently competing against more than six other people for every available job, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Labor. That’s the highest job competition recorded since the agency first ...   read more

The Obama administration is determined to spend the economic stimulus package wisely, according to White House officials, who announced on Thursday a list of proposals that have been axed because they weren’t deemed a smart investment. The Departm...   read more

For years during the Bush administration, and even into this summer, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had insisted the weed-killer atrazine was not a danger to the public or environment. But in the wake of articles published...   read more