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 eight years the United States was under the leadership of President George W. Bush were not good ones according to statistics relating to income, poverty and health care. Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show the median household income...   read more

Republican Congressman Joe Wilson’s outburst last Wednesday during President Barack Obama’s health care speech prompted those at FactCheck.org to find out if the president really did lie about certain parts of the reform plan. Here’s what they fou...   read more

One year after Lehman Brothers collapsed into the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, sparking panic that the economy might spiral right along with it, Wall Street is still running the same operation despite claims last September that bankers had ...   read more

It’s hard out there to be a Latino worker, according to a new report published by the National Council of La Raza. More than any other ethnic group, Latinos are at the highest risk to die on the job—a situation that has not changed in 16 years. Mo...   read more

If Monopoly was played with rules that reflected real life, the game would be a very different contest, according to D. Brad Wright, a PhD student studying health policy and management at the University of North Carolina.   For starters, everyon...   read more

The Obama administration has taken yet another step towards improving trade between the United States and Cuba. New rules crafted by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security will allow Cuban-Americans to send packages to relati...   read more

Whether or not President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday advanced the cause of health care reform, it did help the stock portfolios of health insurance companies. The Associated Press reported the following day that shares of many insurers went...   read more

About 30 miles separate the towns of Mount Vernon and Bellingham in Washington state, but a much greater distance separates their mayors. Conservative Mayor Bud Norris of Mount Vernon likes Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, and recently he decided ...   read more

From a purely financial standpoint, the auto industry bailout was not a wise maneuver on the part of the federal government. It can be argued that the assistance was necessary to avert even more job losses in an already recession-wracked economy, ...   read more

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wants to revamp the nation’s oil-and-gas royalty system to encourage more efficient drilling for fossil fuels on federal lands. The idea makes sense, but the problem lies in its execution—or rather, who will b...   read more

The times they are a-changing, in Cuba, where a collection of cyber aficionados came together to celebrate the Communist country’s first-ever blog awards. As Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez put it, A Virtual Island was more than just a ceremony—it was...   read more

With more soldiers dying of suicide than in combat this year, the military is looking for a solution to this problem through a three-year, $50 million study. The study will include psychological assessments and DNA samples of half a million soldie...   read more

With the U.S. workforce getting grayer and grayer, the leading advocacy organization for older Americans wants people to know which companies or institutions get it right with regards to those 50 and above. According to the AARP’s “2011 Best Emplo...   read more

A blander diet could mean a richer wallet for the United States, if only Americans could cut back on their salt intake. A new study conducted by researchers at the RAND Corporation found Americans consume about 3,400 milligrams of salt per day—whi...   read more

The United States is no longer the worst per-capita polluter when it comes to contributing to the problem of global warming. Australia is now number one. But neither country, nor most other industrial nations, is at risk of suffering from the wors...   read more

Criticizing the leader of Turkey has cost the media group, Doğan Yayin, dearly. The government’s Tax Ministry fined Doğan—a conglomerate of newspapers and television stations that includes CNN-Turk, a Turkish-language version of CNN jointly owned ...   read more