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

Not knowing English apparently disqualifies a woman from being a good mother, according to some health officials in Mississippi. Cirila Baltazar Cruz is a 34-year-old illegal immigrant and restaurant worker from Mexico who speaks neither English n...   read more

Twenty years after his death, Nobel Prize-winning physicist William B. Shockley is still creating controversy because of his support for eugenics, the long discredited belief that intelligence is hereditary and racially based, thus justifying huma...   read more

NBA players who compare big games to that of going to war have nothing on Tim James. The former first-round draft pick of the Miami Heat gave up his basketball career last year and joined the U.S. Army, becoming the first former NBA player to serv...   read more

On June 11, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated a career diplomat with extensive experience in the Middle East to be the next ambassador to Oman. Richard J. Schmierer was born in New Jersey circa 1952, and earned a B.A. from Lehigh University i...   read more

Not since the end of the Vietnam War has the U.S. military faced as large a task of hauling home weapons and equipment as it does in Iraq. More 1.5 million pieces of hardware, ranging from the 65-ton Abrams tank to antennas weighing a few pounds, ...   read more

Global warming may wind up giving the U.S. Navy a new job. With the arctic ice pack shrinking rapidly, the North Pole could be entirely free of ice during the summer season within just 20 years. Such a development would create a brand new sea lane...   read more

The conservation group Sequoia Forestkeeper has sued to stop the U.S. Forest Service from logging 639 trees in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the southern Sierra Nevada in Central California. The logging has been proposed by government for...   read more

All Mohammed Zakaria Memon wanted to do was pray five times a day while working as an IT consultant for Wal-Mart in their Arkansas-based corporate offices. But this rite of Islam was allegedly unacceptable to Wal-Mart, according to a lawsuit filed...   read more

Young Latinas do not lack for professional aspirations, but the inability of many to complete high school on time is preventing them from realizing their career goals. A new study sponsored by the National Women’s Law Center and the Mexican Americ...   read more

For the second month in a row, a new record high in combat fatalities has been reached in Afghanistan for the U.S. military. A total of 45 American service members died in August, surpassing the 44 killed in July, which was the previous high mar...   read more

Although a shuttle launched into space travels thousands of miles, for Jose Hernández, the meaning of a long, arduous journey is all too familiar. Hernández, one of the six astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery, has had a remarkable success st...   read more

Less than 2,000 men are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year, compared with 192,000 cases for women. The rare occurrence of this condition in men has many wondering about the water supply at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, one...   read more

The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will feature the glass-topped casket that once displayed the remains of Emmett Till, whose murder became an early rallying point during the Civil Rights movement. Till’s...   read more

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who became internationally famous for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released from prison on September 14. The 30-year-old reporter was sentenced to three years in prison aft...   read more

It’s tough to spend money, and thus help stimulate the economy, when stuck behind bars. So then why were 3,900 inmates nationwide sent stimulus checks like most other Americans? That’s the question many in Washington are asking since the news brok...   read more

On June 1, 2009, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed William J. Taggart to be chief operating officer (COO) of the department's Federal Student Aid office (FSA). FSA is a Performance Based Organization (PBO), which is intended to cre...   read more