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 American people have spoken. As President Barack Obama’s transition team wrapped things up before he officially took office in January, staffers compiled a list of the most pressing issues facing the country, based on feedback from the populac...   read more

Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, the man who told of a phony connection between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while being tortured, has died in a Libyan prison, allegedly of suicide. Al-Libi was the unnamed source that former Secretary o...   read more

The U.S. military has launched a full-scale public relations battle over an attack in Afghanistan last week that apparently involved a chemical outlawed by international treaties. At issue is who used white phosphorus on the people of Farah provin...   read more

In April 2009, President Obama proposed Carlos Pascual as the next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. This was a controversial choice because his specialty is not Latin America, but rather converting newly independent or failed states to democracy and fre...   read more

Throughout the United States’ “War on Terror,” various services have been contracted out to private firms. These service contracts, which can range from equipment and weapons manufacturing to diplomatic security details, are often awarded without ...   read more

“Who’s next?” was the question being asked by Wall Street executives and consumer advocates alike following the landmark decision by Goldman Sachs & Company to pay up to $60 million for brokering risky home loans during the subprime mortgage craze...   read more

Andy Ostroy, Democrat and entrepreneur, thinks the Internet is largely to blame for not only the current economic troubles, but also the fraying of the nation’s social fabric. It all boils down to that nasty word: free. The Internet is all about t...   read more

In the midst of the U.S. economic downturn, China has surpassed the United States as Brazil’s biggest trading partner, a role the U.S. has played for the last 70-80 years. In April, the sum of China’s trade with Brazil reached $3.2 billion, exceed...   read more

Of all the torture techniques banned by President Barack Obama, the one that CIA leaders wanted most to retain was sleep deprivation. The reason was two-fold: sleep deprivation was both effective in getting suspected terrorists to talk, and it was...   read more

While the pork industry has been sweating out the swine flu panic, fearing a loss of markets and profits, another industry has been gearing up to make a killing off the virus: pharmaceutical companies. Responding to the hysteria over a potential p...   read more

After rejecting similar appeals for the past 10 years, the Mormon Church has agreed to encourage the Department of the Interior to grant National Historic Landmark status for Mountain Meadows, the southern Utah site where 120 pioneers were massacr...   read more

President Barack Obama wants to spend $150 billion over the next decade to create “a clean energy future” by developing alternative sources of energy. But the most important players in this ambitious plan—oil companies—don’t want to participate. D...   read more

Even after the scandals involving Enron, Tyco, WorldCom and Xerox, some big-time auditors continue to be part of the problem instead of acting like the financial watchdogs they’re supposed to be. Two top 10 audit firms—BDO Seidman and McGladrey & ...   read more

“Kudos to Obama for working for needed balance [between crack and powder cocaine sentencing] but he could do more,” argues Debra J. Saunders, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which impl...   read more

Disagreements between the Israeli Defense Ministry and the Pentagon about access to computers continue to stall Israel’s order of 75 new F-35 stealth fighter jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Access to the F-35’s computer remains at the hear...   read more

What’s bad for polar bears and walruses is actually quite golden for Shell and other oil companies. While scientists, environmentalists and policymakers fret over the shrinking of the polar icecap, oil executives are planning to take advantage of ...   read more