While the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of D.C. v. Heller represents a landmark victory for firearms rights advocates, its immediate legal effect was only to overturn a District ... Read More

Here's a big question for you and thousands of trial lawyers across the nation: Now that the Supreme Court, in its D.C. v. Heller decision, has established that the Second ... Read More

The same hormones that control growth in insects has led to a new treatment for high blood pressure (hypertension) in humans, thanks to research conducted through the U.S. Department of ... Read More

In a landmark gun control decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today issued a 5-4 ruling overturning a District of Columbia law banning the possession of handguns. In its decision in ... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along with its WaterSense Program have just released a draft copy of their new specifications for building water-efficient new single-family homes. Builders will be required ... Read More

The Veterans Administration (VA) is making a special effort to assist veterans who are having trouble making their home mortgage payments. "VA is reaching out to veterans -- both those who ... Read More

When the U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) used the term "500-year flood" to describe the recent devastating flooding in the Midwest, many people in the region who recalled the Great Midwest ... Read More

A series of recent events suggests that our nation's long-held definition of "oil independence" may be changing from independence from foreign oil to independence from all oil. Has the cumulative ... Read More

A climate featuring extreme drought in the West, downpours in the East and excessive heat everywhere is in store -- sooner rather than later -- for the U.S. as a ... Read More

Have you ever noticed how some TV commercials sound louder than the programs you are watching? U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-California, 14th) has noticed, says it’s done on purpose, ... Read More

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded four grants ranging from nearly $530,000 to just over $1.3 million to fund research leading to answers for the "enduring questions of life." While ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned 23 U.S. companies and two foreign individuals to stop selling and advertising products claiming to prevent and cure cancer. The products, boasting claims ... Read More

At least 45 percent of the American households are still at risk of losing some or all of their television service on Feb. 17, 2009, due to the government mandated ... Read More

All recreational sport fishermen and spearfishers who fish in federal ocean waters will be required to register with the government before fishing in 2009, under a new federal regulation being ... Read More

Americans expect every new president to accomplish the same thing: reform the government itself to make it work better and solve all the nation's problems. That's all. Of course, we ... Read More

After the crew of a commercial aircraft apparently went to sleep at the wheel and flew right over their destination airport, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that ... Read More

Population growth is not necessarily a bad thing, except when the growing population lives in a nation's jails. In just a bit of good incarceration news, the Bureau of Justice ... Read More

It’s the fastest computer on the planet. It has broken the "petaflop" computing speed barrier. It's the Department of Energy’s new Roadrunner supercomputer. It will be used to ensure that ... Read More

The U.S. States are suffering the same economic woes as the rest of the nation, according to data just released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) showing that ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced several amendments to regulations intended to enhance and enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The amended regulations will, for the first time, ... Read More

Along with some happiness and frustration, the tax rebates spawned a larger than normal number of tax-related scams, including a particularly dangerous identity theft email scheme disguised as a surprise ... Read More

America's radioactive nuclear waste has entered what could be the last bend along its long and bumpy bureaucratic road to burial at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the Department of Energy ... Read More

Working to fill the "Drug Pusher's Hall of Fame," President Bush has designated four individuals and three organizations as Foreign Narcotics Kingpins, worthy of sanctions under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin ... Read More

Pure confusion with the complex process causes far too many American homebuyers to overpay by thousands of dollars in closing costs when they purchase their homes, according to a new ... Read More