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

Tamarah Grimes, a Justice Department employee who accused Republican prosecutors of misconduct in the case against former Democratic Governor Donald Siegelman of Alabama, was fired last month for what she says was retaliation for her actions bac...   read more

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Obama administration intends to shake up the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the agency in charge of providing security for all federal government buildings, after learning how easy it is to carry bomb-ma...   read more

Among the most overlooked victims of the nation’s dual wars have been the children of military personnel, who it turns out are more than ever in need of mental health services. Statistics compiled by the Defense Department reveal that the number o...   read more

Attorneys at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been shaking their heads over President Barack Obama’s choice of Ignacia Moreno to lead the Department of Justice’s environment division.   An investigation by ProPublica found six...   read more

Wanted: Female (preferable) willing to live in cave, cast spells, and cackle on command. That’s what the British tourist site Wookey Hole is looking for, now that its “witch” has retired.   Wookey officials are willing to pay £50,000 a year for ...   read more

Operators of one of the largest coal-burning plants in Iowa have been manipulating air pollution findings by changing the type of coal burned at critical times. Whenever the wind shifts direction near the Grain Processing Corp. facility in Muscati...   read more

A major fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Laurie S. Fulton, the new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, has spent most of her career in Washington, DC, first in the U.S. Senate, where she met her first husband, Tom Daschle, and later as a partner in ...   read more

President Barack Obama’s $75 billion plan to keep millions of Americans from losing their homes to foreclosure may be doomed to fail because banks simply don’t want to refinance mortgages. That is the conclusion of a study conducted by the Federal...   read more

The V-22 Osprey has always been something of a problem child for the military. The hybrid part-helicopter-part-airplane suffered through enough development problems back in the 1980s that Dick Cheney, when he was Secretary of Defense under Ronald ...   read more

Like his recent predecessors, President Barack Obama has turned to a major financial contributor, rather than a career diplomat, to serve as Ambassador to Great Britain. Louis B. Susman is a retired lawyer, business executive and banker. Although ...   read more

It is illegal for anyone working on Wall Street to use non-public information to help them make investment decisions in the stock market. But the same insider trading restrictions do not apply to Congress, whose members and staffers are free to us...   read more

In the 25 years since the United States established formal diplomatic ties with the Vatican, Miguel H. Diaz represents the first time a Catholic academic expert (and Hispanic) has been selected to be U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. A theologian a...   read more

President Obama has chosen a former astronaut and Marine Corps aviator with strong ties to the defense industry to lead NASA in its transition from the Space Shuttle era to the next phase of space exploration. Born in the Jim Crow South, retired M...   read more

Whenever military officials label a secret activity “Operational Preparation of the Environment (OPE),” it prevents lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee from overseeing the clandestine work. The problem is that the Department of Defense (...   read more

Have things deteriorated so much for higher education in the United States that it is no longer a wise investment to attend college? Jack Hough at SmartMoney says “yes,” based on the combination of staggering tuitions and the declining value of c...   read more

While the Obama administration would like Americans to think the fanfare over American soldiers pulling out of Iraqi cities demonstrates the United States is on the way out of Iraq, the reality is that U.S. forces are still maintaining a strong pr...   read more