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

Hog farmers want everyone to know that the fear over the swine—sorry, H1N1—flu epidemic goes both ways. While people may be scared of catching the illness from eating pork, which experts say can’t happen, farmers have their own worries humans carr...   read more

The foreclosure of thousands of homes during the economic crisis has left bank headquarters across the country confronted by the long arm of the law from the West Coast. In Indio, CA, local law enforcement has threatened Citigroup officials in St....   read more

Millions of textbooks donated and paid for by the United States and foreign donors meant for schools in Afghanistan never make it to their destinations. In fact, about one third of the school books meant for the 2008 school schedule were never del...   read more

Doctors Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were paid $1,000 a day by the CIA to serve as the architects of the agency’s secret interrogation program, during which they assured their bosses that waterboarding was not only safe, but also effective in ext...   read more

Nur Munir, a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, and U.S. resident for more than ten years, is likely to be deported to Indonesia, where he faces the possibility of political retaliation from the former military supporters of President Su...   read more

In the midst of testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates let drop a piece of news that unsettled civil libertarians: between 50 and 100 of the prisoners currently being held at Guantánamo Bay...   read more

Multiple class-action lawsuits have been filed by American soldiers against Halliburton and its subsidiary, KBR Inc., over its open-pit burning of garbage in Iraq and Afghanistan. KBR is accused of releasing harmful toxins into the air from fires ...   read more

Mark Lyttle is a U.S. citizen born in North Carolina. He does not speak a lick of Spanish. His biological father was part Puerto Rican, giving Lyttle a dark complexion. That, some mental illness, and a miscommunication was all it took for U.S. Imm...   read more

This week was not a good one for drug manufacturer Allergan. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first real competition to the California-based company’s big money maker, Botox, and the very next day, FDA officials de...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to maintain a high ethical standard in his administration hasn’t stopped the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from employing a former top executive from a major FEMA contractor to serve as the agency’s lea...   read more

The only man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, may be transferred from Scotland to finish his sentence at home in a Libyan prison. Megrahi was convicted of murder for the bombing of the Pan Am...   read more

Kenya is once again poised on the brink of political violence between factions, prompting one leading female attorney to propose a novel solution for resolving the crisis: Don’t sleep with your husband. Taking a page from the ancient Greek play, L...   read more

The federal government may finally be moving towards eliminating the unequal sentencing in U.S. drug laws that punish users of crack more than cocaine. Key government and judicial officials testified at a congressional hearing on Wednesday that th...   read more

American officials fighting against Islamic terrorism should utilize a war-of-words to marginalize militant extremists, according to a new comprehensive study, the “Militant Ideology Atlas,” commissioned by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point....   read more

Perhaps the most worried Americans during the current swine flu epidemic are pig farmers, who have dreaded the widespread association of the illness with their livelihood. Since the outbreak began, the pork industry has lobbied hard to change the ...   read more

The trend in recent years of grandparents raising their grandchildren has reached all the way to the military. There are about 2.5 million grandparents across the country caring for their children’s children, and while the military does not have i...   read more