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

A new study published in the journal Pediatrics is again raising the question: Why are girls reaching puberty at a younger age?   Following up on research published in 1997 that showed similar results, the new study revealed more girls age seven...   read more

For the first time, the American Psychological Association (APA) has publicly questioned the ethics of a military psychologist who oversaw the CIA’s torture of a detainee during the Bush administration.   The APA wrote a letter to the Texas lice...   read more

The Government Printing Office (GPO) may not be very large, but it has its share of unhappy employees. One of the smaller agencies in the U.S. government, the GPO, with about 2,300 workers, recorded the highest rate of discrimination complaints (2...   read more

Dr. David Egilman, a professor at Brown University who contends it’s possible to contract lung cancer from eating too much microwave popcorn, filed an appeal in a lawsuit to which he was only an expert witness, not a plaintiff.   Egilman testifi...   read more

Although no formal policy has been adopted for dealing with the problem, defense officials are moving closer to acknowledging the health consequences of open-pit burning on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Some soldiers who have devel...   read more

Vilma S. Martínez, the U.S. ambassador to Argentina, has a long history of straddling the worlds of corporate boardrooms and legal defense of minorities.  One of the leading voices in Hispanic civil rights since the 1970s, Martínez has run the Mex...   read more

Fort Detrick in Maryland is responsible for numerous cases of cancer, including three in one family, according to local residents. Base officials have admitted Agent Orange was used there a long time ago, along with industrial solvents, but the cl...   read more

Bank officials in Romania have come under fire from Holocaust experts for issuing a special coin honoring Miron Cristea, a former prime minister who demonized Jews prior to the outbreak of World War II.   Cristea led Romania’s Orthodox Church be...   read more

Faulty sewage infrastructure in Allentown, Pennsylvania, caused raw sewage to spill into Little Lehigh Creek from 1999 to 2008, resulting in more than 33 million gallons of untreated waste to flow into the tributary. An investigation by the Allent...   read more

When the Federal Reserve Bank of New York helped bail out Bear Stearns two years ago, it didn’t anticipate becoming the bad guy and having to foreclose on American homeowners and business owners. But that’s the ugly situation facing the New York F...   read more

President Barack Obama has turned to an old pro to take over the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Jacob “Jack” J. Lew, who ran OMB during the last three years of the Clinton administration, when the federal budget ran a billion-dollar surplu...   read more

President Barack Obama considers himself a devout Christian who uses the teachings of Jesus Christ to guide his conduct and ideals—but how does that jive with Obama’s gusto for warfare, writes John Whitehead, founder and president of The Rutherfor...   read more

With the eventual sale of the Tuttle farm in Dover, New Hampshire, the end will come for a remarkable tale of living history. The farm was first established in 1632 by John Tuttle, who arrived from England and, with a land grant from King Charles ...   read more

Like those before him, Thomas Tidwell has risen up through the ranks of the U.S. Forest Service during his 32-year career before being appointed chief of the agency on June 17, 2009, by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.   After growing up in Bo...   read more

Eight foreign aid workers, including six Americans, were murdered in Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. The six were medical workers belonging to the Christian aid group International Assistance Mission. Two Afghan interprete...   read more

Mentally ill individuals detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are not provided legal representation when facing deportation hearings. This means those incapable of representing themselves before an immigration judge face a greater r...   read more