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

One-fifth of the human genome is currently controlled by companies that have received patents issued by the U.S. government. More than 40,000 gene patents have been awarded to biotechnology businesses, with even more on the way, what with three mi...   read more

Advocates for changing American immigration law received new information to fuel their argument that children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. should not receive automatic citizenship. A study released by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that ...   read more

Credit cards are no longer the biggest personal debt problem for Americans. As of June, outstanding student loans totaled $829.8 billion, while credit card debt was $826.5 billion. Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, told The...   read more

Nearly 2,000 civil rights complaints were filed against employees of the Department of Justice in the first half of 2010, but the agency’s inspector general only bothered to investigate one of the cases. The IG reported that almost all of the 1,99...   read more

Major League Baseball (MLB) has been more than willing to hire minorities to coach first base, a position that’s not as prestigious or strategically important to the game as the third-base coach position, which is considered a major stepping stone...   read more

Like the old Soviet government did in downplaying the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, Russian officials are publicly minimizing the risk posed by wildfires in the same region that is still contaminated by radiation. Of particular concern are thre...   read more

Only weeks after BP’s undersea well began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists from two universities conducted early studies revealing that large amounts of oil were accumulating at the bottom of the ocean. But the U.S. Coast Guard and ...   read more

Going to college is costing considerably more than just two years ago, forcing the majority of minority students to live at home. A new survey produced by Sallie Mae found the average cost of attending a university or college in 2009-2010 was $18,...   read more

Only a year ago, the Department of Defense announced a commitment to reduce the number of contractors it uses for various services and functions. That plan has already been discarded by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who quietly dropped the go...   read more

The FBI’s forensic laboratory is having a tough time keeping up with demand for DNA analyses from its agents, as well helping local and state law enforcement deal with DNA testing. An investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general ...   read more

BP is being sued by the state of Texas for excess pollution that has nothing to do with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In April and May, while all eyes were on the broken well that released millions of gallons of oil into the ocean, BP’s Texas City...   read more

The U.S. Navy has gotten the okay from the National Marine Fisheries Service to harm up to 27 different Pacific Ocean species during its training exercises scheduled near the Mariana Islands. The authorization includes killing up to 10 beaked whal...   read more

Despite complaints from officials in Israel, the Obama administration plans to sell $30 billion in advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, making it one of the biggest weapons sales of its kind.   Israel, which has long maintained military superi...   read more

Metropolis, Illinois, has two powerful distinctions that separate it from all other cities in America. One, it’s the self-proclaimed hometown of Superman. Two, it’s home to the nation’s only uranium conversion plant—where striking workers are refu...   read more

Every weekend for the past four years, Pastor Bill Dunfee of the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw, Ohio, has led his flock in protesting the existence of the Foxhole strip club. Having grown tired of the picketing and videotaping of cust...   read more

The August 9 edition of Time featured a cover photo of an Afghan woman who had her nose chopped off, along with the headline: “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.” The implication was that, despite the increasing unpopularity of the war, the U.S...   read more