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

While drug-related violence continues to spiral out of control in Mexico, the federal government has dallied in its efforts to spend more than a billion dollars that Congress authorized to fight drug trafficking south of the border. Out of $1.4 bi...   read more

Because the federal government leases public lands to ranchers to graze livestock, conflicts often develop between wild animals and domesticated cattle and sheep. Grazing leases have economic value and ranchers often sell them to one another, and ...   read more

A new bestselling book, Unhappy China, is stirring debate in China and alarm in the West because of its aggressive nationalism. Millions of web pages have sprung up to address the book since its release last month. In the book, five Chinese schola...   read more

The financial crisis in the United States seems to be having a direct effect on Guatemala’s economy. Remittances from Guatemalan migrants in the United States to their native country in Central America have dropped dramatically in the past year. A...   read more

Questions remain unanswered following the discovery of the body of Deputy U.S. Marshal Vicente Paul Bustamante. Bustamante, 48, was found dead Wednesday, March 25, in an irrigation canal in east Juárez, Chihuahua. He had multiple gunshot wounds to...   read more

Drowsy driving has become a growing concern among drivers and lawmakers alike and is finally beginning to receive the kind of attention that drunk driving started to receive 30 years ago. Recent studies have shown that drowsy driving causes betwee...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge not to hire lobbyists in his administration has not prevented potential conflicts-of-interest for some of his key advisers. Take, for instance, Lawrence Summers. As chairman of the National Economic Council, Summers...   read more

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing hard to be given broad new powers over the financial industry, arguing, “We’re having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision.” This is the same Timothy Geithner who previo...   read more

In recent years, the world has had to come to terms with the fact that pirates are not just a romantic phenomenon of another era, but still exist today. Now Americans are seeing the return of another lost category of criminals: cattle rustlers. Ca...   read more

What’s the easiest way to make a cool $8 billion this year? Take one part “black liquor,” add a dash of diesel fuel, and voila! In no time you’ll be receiving a fat check from the IRS—if you’re the paper industry, that is. Here’s how it works. In ...   read more

Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to settle the largest case ever of fraud involving military procurement, valued at $325 million. However, the federal government won’t see any net gain from the settlement, but the defense giant will. That’s becau...   read more

Thomas Perez, selected by President Barack Obama on March 27thto be the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, awaits Congressional confirmation of his appointment amid anticipation of protests from conservative groups. The position has hist...   read more

If the Obama administration was planning to ship detainees to Afghanistan as part of its closure plans for Guantanamo Bay, then a federal judge has thrown a wrench into those preparations. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled on Thursday that t...   read more

The state of Washington now finds itself without an executioner, following the abrupt resignation of its lethal injection team. The four volunteers who administer lethal injections to death-row inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla...   read more

The United States wanted to bring democracy to Afghanistan, and now they have it, including the ugly side of electoral politics. In a move to shore up his support for the upcoming election, President Hamid Karzai signed a law that legalizes rape w...   read more

It took numerous complaints, two critical reports, and demands from Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama fire him, but finally NASA’s inspector general has stepped down. Robert “Moose” Cobb first got into hot water in 2007 when his close assoc...   read more