Zelenskyy explained, “I told him that if he gave us the weapons we need and stopped supporting Putin, we would let him build Trump-branded hotels and other Trump-branded buildings in Ukraine’s ten largest cities, as well as Trump golf courses in the countryside. He was quite excited.”   read more

J. Randolph “Randy” Babbitt, an aviation consultant and former pilot-union boss, will take over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as it tries to overhaul air-traffic control equipment through the NextGen project, a billion-dollar effort to...   read more

Lawmakers in California are considering whether to allow school districts to do away with printed textbooks in favor of e-books that would be read using school computers. Current law requires school districts to first buy plenty of textbooks befor...   read more

Earlier this month, gray wolves were taken off the Endangered Species List by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, exposing them up once again to being hunted. However, many argue that this move was premature and that the wolves have not yet reache...   read more

A commando unit created by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been behind the worst attacks in Afghanistan involving civilians, military and foreign news sources have discovered. U.S. Marines Corps’ Special Operations Command (MarSOC) wa...   read more

In a relatively new twist in the operation of the U.S. military, the Pentagon is leasing surveillance drones from Boeing, rather than buying them. Rear Admiral Bill Shannon, executive officer for the unmanned aviation program, says that leasing th...   read more

A new book by historian José Maria Zavala claims that former dictator Francisco Franco of Spain was a monorchid, meaning he had only one testicle. Zavala bases his assertion on an account by physician Ana Puigvert, whose grandfather Antonio Puigve...   read more

As technology for cell phones and electric vehicles develops rapidly, the world is looking to a new source of energy: the vast salt flats of Bolivia. The poorest nation in South America is home to the world’s largest reserves of lithium, a metal t...   read more

The U.S. Census Bureau last week announced some of the latest demographic changes among states and counties with respect to ethnic composition, age and gender. According to new statistics, more counties continued to become “majority-minority”—mean...   read more

Federal anti-drug officials announced last week that the latest scientific data shows marijuana has become an increasingly potent and dangerous drug—a claim that has been proven false or exaggerated after other government warnings, according to cr...   read more

While district attorneys have embraced DNA testing to convict thousands of criminals, many of them have vigorously fought the use of genetic testing to allow prisoners to challenge their convictions. Forty-six states have passed laws to enable inm...   read more

Former presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) is no fan of the Federal Reserve. In fact, he wants it abolished. The Federal Reserve, according to Paul, is the root of inflationary troubles and retarded economic growth, thanks to it...   read more

After going back through their final report and interviewing key participants, NBC News determined that key sections of the 9/11 Commission’s findings were based on information obtained from the CIA’s torturing of suspected terrorists. In fact, it...   read more

The reason President Obama and his supporters gave for refusing to comply with a court order to release 44 photos of the abuse of detainees is that the photos would inflame anti-American sentiment and endanger U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...   read more

Police in Guatemala have freed a Twitter user accused of inciting financial panic. Jean Anleu Fernández, 37, who was arrested on May 14 for posting a 96-character tweet, was released on Q50,000 (roughly $6,500) bail. Most of the money was collecte...   read more

First-term Congressman Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), a former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, accused the Army’s top leaders this week of changing the standards by which service members are awarded the Medal of Honor, noting that not a ...   read more

Prior to being selected by President Barack Obama to lead all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Lt. General Stanley McChrystal led the military’s Special Operations command, and in this capacity, he helped oversee one of the more infamous torture progra...   read more