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 ball is now in Congress’ court following a decision on Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency to declare carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions a danger to the public’s health. President Barack Obama would prefer that Congres...   read more

Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has been asked by lawyers of one Guantánamo Bay detainee not to dismantle the secret prisons used to interrogate suspected terrorists. The counsel for Abd al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed al-Nash...   read more

On Monday, the first ladies of fifteen African nations will gather in Beverly Hills for The African First Ladies Summit and Gala— a two-day meeting (April 20-21) that will focus on combating HIV/AIDs and will also address women’s issues. They will...   read more

Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) releases a list of the top 10 books libraries or schools have been asked to ban. According to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, 513 complaints were filed in 2008 from individuals or groups cla...   read more

Although they shed new light on the secret authorizations of the Bush administration, the Justice Department memos released last Friday are, to a certain extent, just the tip of the iceberg. According to an assessment by ProPublica, there remain a...   read more

A new push for federal funding of genetically-modified (GM) crops has touched off a battle among non-profit organizations seeking to help developing countries and ease world hunger. On one side is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Chicag...   read more

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) made an unusual move last week in attempting to save the failing New Frontier Bank in Greeley, CO. Normally, the FDIC finds a larger bank to buy the floundering bank and the problem is solved withou...   read more

In a move with ominous implications for Constitutional rights in the United States, President Barack Obama announced on Thursday that his administration would not prosecute CIA employees or contractors who participated in the torturing of detainee...   read more

The Department of Justice on Thursday released four declassified memos authored during the Bush administration that were used to justify the methods of torture to be used against suspected terrorists. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had ...   read more

Private security and logistics contractors who come home wounded from Afghanistan and Iraq face an insurance-created nightmare, according to a joint investigation by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times. Unlike wounded members of the US military, ...   read more

“Holy crap” was the response, in all seriousness, by one Washington state environmental expert upon learning that the source pollution in a long contaminated stream flowing through Vancouver City was none other than her own office’s bathrooms. The...   read more

Wesam al-Delaema, a 36-year-old Iraqi-born citizen of the Netherlands, became the first Iraq war insurgent to be prosecuted in an American court on Thursday, receiving a 25-year sentence for plotting to kill US soldiers. But al-Delaema will not se...   read more

As President Barack Obama arrives in Trinidad for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, one of the key issues to be discussed will be the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba. Despite the fact that Americans are legally banned from visiting Cuba, there is...   read more

When it comes to toxic assets, Lehman Brothers has got everyone beat on Wall Street. Thanks to a commodities trading contract from before it went bankrupt, Lehman is sitting on half a million pounds of uranium “yellowcake”—enough material to power...   read more

With the recent economic plunge and the steep rise in unemployment, more and more Americans are being affected. Stay-at-home moms, who had previously set their resumes down in exchange for being with the children as they grew up, are now being for...   read more

The secret trial of freelance journalist Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American arrested in Tehran in January, began on Monday. Charged with spying for the United States, Saberi went to Iran six years ago, filing reports for the BBC and National Publi...   read more