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

In a complete reversal from the previous administration, South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed a class action lawsuit filed in U.S. courts against American corporations that did business in South Africa when apartheid was still in effect...   read more

Overdraft fees have become a lucrative business for banks, especially in recent times when consumers easily run short of cash in their checking accounts. Banks are expected to reap $27 billion in overdraft charges on ATM card transactions alone th...   read more

Republicans and conservative Democrats in support of health care reform want any plan adopted by Congress to include a curb on medical malpractice lawsuits. They argue that such a change would help bring down health care costs—by reducing the habi...   read more

Chicago is not only the Windy City but also the most stressed out. This finding is according to Forbes’ annual survey for 2009 ranking the top cities in America where stress is overflowing. The magazine took into consideration several quality-of-l...   read more

On Monday, a British jury convicted three British Muslims of plotting to blow up more than half a dozen planes over the Atlantic, but three years ago, officials in the United Kingdom were worried that their investigation of the plot was almost foi...   read more

The Obama administration is rushing to submit to Congress a Strategic Implementation Plan that will include a host of statistics (or metrics) that will define “success” in the Afghanistan war. But author Tom Engelhardt has produced his own set of ...   read more

Battered by disclosures of the Bush administration’s interrogation program and news of a pending investigation by a special prosecutor, the CIA decided recently to share some goods news about its work combating terrorists. In an interview with Jef...   read more

The Obama administration has managed to make the U.S. government more open and transparent, although serious concerns still exist, according to a special project involving more than 70 public interest groups.   The report published by OpenTheGov...   read more

When it comes to disposing of old merchant vessels, the U.S. government can’t even give them away. A drop in steel prices, combined with stringent environmental rules, has undercut the value of aging maritime ships in the eyes of salvage companies...   read more

American soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division raided a hospital last week looking for Taliban warriors, according to officials with the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, which runs the hospital and has been active in Afghanistan f...   read more

While American soldiers pull out from Iraq, Americans of another stripe keep arriving in country. Private security contractors from the U.S. and other countries are pouring into Iraq to take over the guarding of key installations and bases—at an e...   read more

To say that Americans are confused by the healthcare debate is an understatement. So, as the nation prepares for the next round, to be kicked off by President Obama’s speech to the Congress, I thought it might be useful to provide a beginner’s gui...   read more

The United States is indeed No. 1…when it comes to selling weapons to developing nations and throughout the entire world. Despite a global recession that has put a crimp in worldwide arms sales, business is booming for U.S. weapons manufacturers, ...   read more

According to the latest report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) on Wall Street compensation, executives of the top 20 banks that accepted federal bailout money received an average of $32 million each from 2006-2008. The same banks have be...   read more

Defiant as ever, journalist Lubna Hussein entered the courtroom on Monday in Khartoum wearing the same outfit that got her into trouble with Sudan’s Islamic government: pants. Hussein was arrested in July for wearing trousers in public, which is c...   read more

Going by the conventional definition of unemployment, the jobless rate in the U.S. stood at 9.7% in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But this figure only includes out-of-work Americans who have sought employment within the last...   read more