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

Monday’s publication of the CIA inspector general report on detainee interrogations was not the first time an edited version of the document had been released. In 2008, the Bush administration declassified a heavily redacted version of “Counterter...   read more

The Federal Reserve, which has long enjoyed a tight cloak of secrecy around its financial decision making, lost a key ruling in federal court on Monday that will require it to turn over documents detailing which banks received emergency loans duri...   read more

Reporters seeking to cover the war in Afghanistan may not get the chance to embed with U.S. military units if their previous coverage of the conflict is deemed too negative. The Pentagon is relying on the controversial public relations firm, The R...   read more

For the second year in a row, migrant children left to survive on their own in Greece have gone on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment on a Greek island where conditions have been described as “abominable” by one European human rights bo...   read more

Among the decisions left over from the Bush administration for President Barack Obama to decide upon is whether the federal government should pay a $1 billion settlement to the people of a tiny South Pacific island who were exposed to U.S. nuclear...   read more

If a health reform plan manages to become enacted, insurance companies and hospitals will by no means come out on the short end financially. An aggressive, well-orchestrated lobbying campaign by insurers, and a shrewd bit of bargaining by hospital...   read more

Five years after it was written, and 15 months after the Bush administration released a heavily redacted version, the Obama administration has published a less censored version of the report by the CIA’s inspector general that reviewed the early i...   read more

In preparation for the thousands of English-speaking visitors expected to attend next year’s World Expo fair, the city of Shanghai is working on correcting its many lost-in-translation signs found in restaurants and public places. The plan is to e...   read more

While it might seem counterintuitive, a great way to stimulate the economy would be to encourage older Americans to leave the employment sector by lowering the retirement age to 55, argues progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann. For the plan to ...   read more

Experts on Wall Street have come up with a plan for moving the billions of dollars in mortgages that are still clogging the financial system and keeping banks from offering new loans: Take some bad loans, package them with some good ones, and sell...   read more

Kathleen Martinez’s nomination as the Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy came the day after President Barack Obama joked with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show about how his poor bowling score compared with those...   read more

At a time when many people are contemplating human rights abuses committed by Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, William Calley, more than 40 years after he led one of the most notorious attacks in U.S. military history, publicly apologized for th...   read more

After months of closely following the public debate over health care reform, a trio of reporters from Congressional Quarterly decided to expose the half truths and outright lies promulgated by both Democrats and Republicans and their support group...   read more

Energy trader Andrew J. Hall is set to receive $98 million from CitiGroup for his work buying and selling oil shares on behalf of the bank. The fact that CitiGroup is preparing to pay this bonus is politically volatile for the Obama administration...   read more

“Absurd” is not a word often found amid the dry accounting investigations performed by inspectors general of the federal government. But the IG for the Department of Veterans Affairs couldn’t help but use the word, and others like “nepotism,” to d...   read more

The new chief federal official for K-12 education empathizes easily with students who face difficulties in school. Born in 1958 to Mexican immigrants, Dr. Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana arrived at kindergarten unable to speak or read English, and fo...   read more