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 power of the National Football League to punish players caught taking performance-enhancing drugs has at least temporarily been blocked by a federal court which ruled in favor of two players suspended for failing drug tests earlier this year. ...   read more

Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs had better gear up for significant number of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) cases over the coming years, say researchers at Stanford University. Using survey data based on current cases and a...   read more

Third time was not the charm for Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Twice before, the two parties had tried to convince a federal district judge, Jed Rakoff, to sign off on a $33 million settlement over BofA’s attemp...   read more

Despite federal environmental hallmarks like the Clean Water Act, America’s water supply is increasingly becoming polluted with dangerous substances as a result of repeated dumping by companies, most of whom have gone unpunished.   An investigat...   read more

Yet again the Minerals Management Service (MMS) has been criticized for improperly collecting what is owed to the federal government by oil and gas companies that drill on federal lands. The Government Accountability Office investigated the MMS’ R...   read more

Guiding Light, the longest-running program in broadcast history, is going off the air after more than 70 years. The soap opera will air its last episode on September 18, concluding a run that began before television. It first aired on NBC radio on...   read more

Instead of being so righteously indignant over Republican Congressman Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” remark, liberals should be considering their own verbal blasts at President Barack Obama, writes journalist Dave Lindorff. After all, the American presid...   read more

While labor leaders argued the move was fully justified to protect hard hit American industries, President Barack Obama’s decision last Friday to levy a 35% tariff on imported Chinese tires has sparked an angry response from Chinese Communist lead...   read more

Tired of watching the area around the Vietnam Veterans Memorial dilapidate, the group that established the monument intends to spend nearly $100,000 of its own money to improve landscaping that Congress has refused to fund. Officials with the Viet...   read more

Many of the nation’s largest corporations have received million-dollar stimulus contracts after facing modest to no competition, according to The Wall Street Journal. About 20% of the 22,000 federal contracts given out using stimulus monies have b...   read more

American anger over Scotland’s release of the Lockerbie bomber has forced one company to “de-Scottishify” its marketing in order to minimize a potential loss in sales. Harris Tweed Hebrides, maker of tweed clothing, intends to remove references to...   read more

A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit last Friday filed by more than 200 Iraqis claiming they were tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison by interrogators hired by defense contractor CACI International Inc. In a 2-1 decision, the DC Cour...   read more

Media sources reported last week what the White House had hoped they would regarding the federal stimulus plan adopted earlier this year: that one million jobs had been created or saved as a result of the billion-dollar American Recovery and Reinv...   read more

While Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman understands and even agrees with conservatives’ opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care reform plans, he insists they have only themselves to blame for not addressing the problem when they h...   read more

This week is expected to mark a historic event in ocean travel. Two German cargo vessels are slated to dock in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands after beginning their journey in Asia. But unlike the countless voyages other ships have taken ...   read more

What is it about Afghanistan that seems to derange policymakers in Washington, asks Conn Hallinan, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus. There are parallels between the current war and that which was fought forty years ago in Vietnam—the enemy ...   read more