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

It’s taken more than 60 years, but finally the U.S. government is sending a representative to the Hiroshima memorial service on August 6 in Japan. U.S. Ambassador John Roos will attend the event, along with diplomats from the United Kingdom and Fr...   read more

A former Air Force translator, Peter A. Prahar, is the latest ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a country of tiny, scattered islands in the Western Pacific. In 1983, the US and FSM governments entered into a status of Free As...   read more

Edward J. DeMarco has served since September 1, 2009, as acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which regulates Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks.    DeMarco attended college at the University of N...   read more

The United States is already the biggest supplier of weapons in the world, but President Barack Obama is not satisfied. As part of his plan to double the amount of U.S. exports by 2015, Obama wants to ease certain restrictions on military hardware...   read more

Getting a paper receipt with your next purchase may be wise fiscal management, but dangerous for your health. Laboratory testing commissioned by the Environmental Working Group found high levels of bisphenol A (BPA) on 40% of receipts sampled from...   read more

Unlike most Obama administration appointees, Michael R. Bromwich won’t merely be asked to run his new agency—but completely reshape it while resurrecting the federal government’s reputation for regulating oil and gas leases. Bromwich also is unlik...   read more

The current U.S. ambassador to Serbia enjoys an unusually close relationship to the U.S. ambassador to neighboring Bulgaria, not because of any quesstionable dealings, but because the two diplomats in question are married to one another. Mary Burc...   read more

The current U.S. ambassador to Bulgaria enjoys unusually close access to the new U.S. ambassador to neighboring Serbia, not because of any nefarious dealings, but because the two diplomats in question are married to one another. James B. Warlick, ...   read more

Insurance companies contracting with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide life insurance to soldiers have been profiting off monies intended for survivors of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.   Instead of paying lump sums to ben...   read more

As part of the National Security Letters (NSL) process, which permits the government to obtain records related to terrorist threats without a warrant, the Obama administration wants the FBI to gain access to a user’s Web browser history. Under the...   read more

BP plans to write off nearly $10 billion in oil spill expenses when it pays its corporate taxes to the federal government—an amount that’s about half of what it pledged to spend to help victims living on the gulf coast. In its latest earnings repo...   read more

Those looking to defraud the Small Business Administration need only be persistent and good at counterfeiting. That’s what the Government Accountability Office (GAO) discovered when it submitted documents for phony businesses to SBA’s Historically...   read more

Parameswaran Subramanyam, a Tamil refugee in the United Kingdom who went 23 days without eating, received nearly £80,000 ($125,000) and a public apology from two British tabloids that accused him of eating McDonald’s hamburgers during his protest....   read more

After a federal judge nullified the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore oil drilling, federal lawyers have turned to a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit appellate court to get the ban reinstated. But two of the three judges set to h...   read more

In the current climate of “No” on Capitol Hill, Democrats might well consider Republicans Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma the biggest “nattering nabobs of negativity” in the Senate.   After reviewing 21 years of voting ...   read more

After enjoying a 50-year low in deaths last year, law enforcement is suffering through a significant rise in 2010 in on-duty fatalities among officers. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, so far this year 87 law enfor...   read more