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 ugly truth about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program soon may wind up on trial, now that a controversial civil case has been cleared to proceed. The Ninth Circuit appellate court ruled on Tuesday that five foreign nationals who claim the...   read more

If it holds up among all parties involved, a plan brokered by the federal government would give controlling interest of battered car maker Chrysler to the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. UAW would command a 55% stake, with Italian car company Fia...   read more

Last year, Forbes ranked Sheila Bair the second most powerful woman in the world behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), believes there is no financial juggernaut too big for the ...   read more

When Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, the oil giant also bought responsibility for a lawsuit that now threatens to yield the largest penalties ever in an environmental case. In 1993 lawyers in Ecuador filed suit claiming Texaco had caused widespre...   read more

To help hold President Barack Obama to his pledge of creating a “new era of openness” in government, the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law has released a report card that grades how transparent the administration ...   read more

The U.S. government is preparing to go on the offensive against the growing threat of cyber-warfare, a New York Times investigation has determined. Like the Cold War, during which American officials planned not only defensive but also “first strik...   read more

An unusual clash has developed in the environmental movement between forces that are usually allied: advocates of renewable energy and supporters of wildlife habitats. In response to the Bureau of Land Management’s recently approved, large-scale s...   read more

John Kiriakou was the man who made waterboarding okay for Americans to accept. Back in December 2007, just as the use of the controversial interrogation technique was first becoming known by the public, the former CIA officer appeared on numerous ...   read more

When the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was created in 2003, its purpose was to provide immigration and counter-terrorism enforcement to prevent future attacks on the U.S. Six years later, the efficacy of the CBP along the U.S. border ...   read more

Not only are women in Saudi Arabia banned from driving and have to cover their entire bodies in public, but now they can’t even work up a good sweat at a women-only gym. Government officials recently began to shut down “unlicensed” sports clubs an...   read more

When it comes to hosting the latest in bioterror defense, don’t mess with Texas. A coalition of nonprofit and business groups calling itself the Texas Biological and Agro-Defense Consortium has filed a lawsuit to stop the Department of Homeland Se...   read more

The current decade has not been a good one when it comes to the government cracking down on a wide range of illegal activities. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, prosecutions by the Justice Department are down since Janu...   read more

A physician and professor who has dedicated her career to combating diabetes, Yvette Roudideaux is the first Native American woman to head the Indian Health Service since it was founded in 1955.   Born in 1963, Roubideaux is a member of her fath...   read more

Lost amid the panic over the growing swine flu epidemic is a key question: How did it start? According to sources in the United States and Mexico, the culprit may be Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest owner of hog farms, which operates hog-rais...   read more

Almost $400 million has been spent since the late 1990s by the Defense Department to develop new technologies for soldiers to control urban populations without resorting to lethal force. But the return on this pricey investment has been exactly no...   read more

Relations between Washington and Baghdad have become strained following the public demands of Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for the United States to turn over the American soldiers involved in a weekend raid that left two Iraqis dead and six...   read more