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 mighty Green Dam of China, a computer software program intended to block pornography on Chinese PCs (and carry out other censorship and spying activities) is also capable of shutting out images of some of America’s favorite exports: Paris Hilt...   read more

Calling it the beginning of a historic effort, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on Monday that the U.S. government will set aside 670,000 acres of public land for the creation of solar farms. Federal officials intend to create 24 en...   read more

Germany’s governing parties came to an agreement on Wednesday on a blanket measure involving the overturning of Nazi-era rulings convicting about 30,000 individuals of desertion or treason. These convictions carried with them the death penalty and...   read more

Better late than never. Nearly 60 years after his death in the Korean War, Sergeant First Class Lincoln “Cliff” May received the funeral he deserved in Plainville, Connecticut, at West Cemetery. May, then 22 years old and engaged to be married, wa...   read more

It is estimated that between one-quarter and one-third of all Americans eligible to vote are not registered to participate in elections—which is why the Brennan Center for Justice is calling for a radical change in the way voters are signed up. In...   read more

More than 50% of all consumer products recalled in 2008 by the federal government were made in China, which continues to sell faulty and dangerous goods due to a lack of accountability in the court systems of both countries. Recalls by the Consume...   read more

While the U.S. Army has struggled to meet recruiting goals, resulting in lower standards and the enlistment of Neo-Nazis, the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is turning away people who don’t meet its tougher standards to become one of “the few, the proud...   read more

Almost two weeks after Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) publicly questioned its need for secrecy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released on Monday a list of 44 coal-fired power plant waste sites in 10 states that pose a “high hazard” risk t...   read more

Is the issue of why men don’t like to wear condoms worth almost half a million dollars in taxpayer money? That’s the question some government watchdogs are asking over the decision by the National Institutes of Health to pay Indiana University’s K...   read more

City officials in Toronto, Canada, are so big on pushing diversity that they doctored the cover photo for their summer events guide, digitally adding the image of an African American man to what appears to be a Latino family. None of the people in...   read more

President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Federal Housing Administration, David H. Stevens was born in New York City and raised in Connecticut. After graduating from University of Colorado at Boulder, Stevens joined California’s World Savings Bank i...   read more

On April 29, 2009, the Senate confirmed transportation industry insider Peter H. Appel to be the next administrator of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the Department of Transportation. Born in 1964, Appel earned his bachel...   read more

A $75 billion plan to prevent millions of families from losing their homes has become bogged down as a result of mortgage lenders reacting too slowly to the crisis, leading some experts to wonder if banks are deliberately undermining President Bar...   read more

Mohamed Farah Aideed, the Somali warlord who became Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States in the early 1990s, received arms and other aid from one of Saudi Arabia’s leading charities, according to a recently discovered Defense Department intelli...   read more

When the federal government fired Franklin Kameny in 1957 for being a homosexual, it unknowingly launched the young astronomer into a new career as a leading gay rights activist. After losing his civilian job for the U.S. Army’s mapping service, K...   read more

Even after decades of public discourse on the inequality of the criminal justice system, the United States continues to punish minorities, especially African Americans, who are arrested at rates far higher than Caucasians who are arrested. A new s...   read more