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 best way to save money and improve the caliber of officers in the U.S. military would be to shut down the training academies for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, argues Thomas E. Ricks, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, ...   read more

An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) has found that the American water supply has increasingly become a dumping ground for pharmaceutical ingredients by industry and consumers. The AP calculated that at least 271 million pounds of pharmac...   read more

Last year was a bad year for many giants of industry, according to Fortune magazine’s annual ranking of top companies, which reported the profits of the largest 500 companies fell collectively by 85% from 2007 to 2008. But 2008 wasn’t so bad for t...   read more

Researchers in Britain have determined that the more people weigh, the more they contribute to global warming. A study by Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Population ...   read more

Since 1996, local police have been enlisted to help enforce immigration violations. Now questions are being raised as to whether some jurisdictions are using the program to arrest illegal immigrants for traffic violations, and thus reducing the re...   read more

Cyber-bullying that led to the suicide of an actress and the fleeing of “dog poop girl” from her hometown provided impetus for a new Cyber Defamation Law in South Korea requiring that the real name of a user be published with any of the user’s upl...   read more

As the United States searches for sources of domestically produced energy, interest has developed in the possibility of using the oceans to create power. Although the field is in its infancy, the long-term prospects are intriguing.   Earlier thi...   read more

Susan Boyle became the talk of the Internet on both sides of the Atlantic following her surprising appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent,” when she stepped on stage with her frumpy appearance and middle-aged spread and wowed audience and judges alik...   read more

CIA interrogators believed they had already extracted everything useful from detainee Abu Zubaydah, a top al Qaeda official, when agency leaders in Washington, DC, ordered the use of harsher techniques in August 2002. Zubaydah, whom the CIA believ...   read more

The destructive earthquake that struck Italy two weeks ago has produced one small, but important piece of good news for art conservationists and residents of the village of Rocca di Cambio. Like many of the buildings in the small mountainous town,...   read more

According to a recent study conducted by the Washington D.C.-based Sentencing Project, a demographic shift is taking place with regards to those sentenced for drug offenses. Between 1999 to 2005 there was a 22% decrease in the number of black drug...   read more

The conservation organization American Rivers has released its 2009 report on America’s Most Endangered Rivers. At the top of the list sits the Sacramento- San Joaquin River System in California, which supplies drinking water  to almost 25 million...   read more

The growing use of robots by the U.S. military to reduce battlefield casualties is coming at the expense of civilians, and it could have ramifications as well for the ability of the government to sell future wars to the American people. In 2008, t...   read more

Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American accused of spying on behalf of the United States, was sentenced to eight years in prison over the weekend by a secret tribunal in Iran. Saberi’s sentence was the most severe of those handed down by Iran’s judicia...   read more

The last time Californians were enduring a worst spate of unemployment than now was January 1941, according to the latest figures released by the state Employment Development Department. The jobless rate for March hit 11.2% in California, only fiv...   read more

In an unusual appeal for help, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has begun tapping into university and college marketing programs in an effort to revamp its image and expand recruitment. The Bush Administration mandated the National Clandestin...   read more