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

A long time Latino civil rights attorney, John Trasviña was confirmed as the assistant secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity on May 1, 2009. He comes to the Department of Housing and Urban Development after serving as president of the M...   read more

Arguing that credit card companies are acting more like loan sharks than businesses, Senator Bernard Sanders (I-VT) wants to cap interest rates on consumer credit cards at 15%. But the majority of his Senate colleagues, including many Democrats, b...   read more

Torture saved America. That’s essentially what former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials want everyone to believe. But according to Ali Soufan, one of the FBI’s top experts on al Qaeda—a man who personally interroga...   read more

The U.S. Social Security Administration has released the top 1000 names for boys and girls born in the United States; in fact, its website provides the rankings of each name from as far back as 1882. In 2008, Emma finally hit #1, dethroning Emily,...   read more

Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winning democracy advocate who has spent much of the past two decades under house arrest, is scheduled to go on trial May 18 for violating the terms of her confinement. Media reports say Suu Kyi got into t...   read more

Add water to the list of vital necessities that American soldiers have had to do without while fighting the war in arid Iraq. In addition to lacking sufficient body armor and explosive-proof vehicles, U.S. soldiers have at times gone without enoug...   read more

The two American journalists from Current TV, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were arrested in North Korea on March 17th, are now facing trial in early June. The women have been indicted on charges of illegally entering the country and for committing...   read more

President Barack Obama has quietly presented a proposal that would allow him to bypass Congress in his efforts to reduce global warming. It is the “Endangerment Finding,” which is a scientific finding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) d...   read more

If confirmed by the Senate, the Treasury Department’s top lawyer will earn nearly ten times more in compensation from his former employer than he will from his government salary. George W. Madison has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be...   read more

Former IRA prisoner Pol Brennan is set to be deported May 18. His only hope of staying in the US is if Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano grants him a special deportation waiver due to the hardship his deportation would cause his Amer...   read more

If President Barack Obama manages to serve two terms in office, he will leave the White House just as the nation’s most important health care program collapses—based on current projections and if nothing is done to shore up Medicare. It’s not exac...   read more

A staple of American breakfasts since World War II, Cheerios has run afoul of the Food and Drug Administration. For two years now, the maker of the cereal, General Mills, has claimed on Cheerios boxes that its product can “lower your cholesterol 4...   read more

The Department of Energy, overseer of the nation’s most toxic cleanup operation, allowed a private contractor to authorize its own payments for work billed to the government, according to the department’s inspector general (IG). The audit that tur...   read more

When the federal government decided to deregulate the airline industry in the late 1970s, it had to ensure that small town America wasn’t left behind once commercial carriers were given the right to decide where they flew and how much to charge....   read more

Nearly half of the billion dollars the U.S. government spends each year on office printing is unnecessary, according to a new survey. Federal employees spend $1.3 billion annually printing out documents, much of which they don’t really need. The p...   read more

After 110 days in office, President Obama is trying to take a big step in reversing an important trend that he opposed during the presidential election campaign. The new proposed federal budget, which was released last week, outlines the administr...   read more