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

Despite the addition of 100,000 new jobs to the federal workforce by the end of last year, representation of Hispanics in U.S. government jobs did not increase, says the Coalition for Fairness for Hispanics in Government. This development upset th...   read more

Millions of gallons of spilled oil aren’t the only danger to whales living in the Gulf of Mexico. The use of powerful sound waves by the oil industry to perform seismic surveys of the ocean floor has endangered the well-being of whales and dolphi...   read more

Public schools in Fort Wayne, Indiana, have been accused of allowing Christian churches to bring trailers onto campuses in order to provide “religious release time” to students—instead of attending their regular classes. The parents of one third g...   read more

America’s honey industry is pleading with the Food and Drug Administration to create national standards for the sweet product in order to curb China’s efforts to dominate the U.S. market. Lobbyists and members of Congress believe China has been sn...   read more

They’re back, and they're as smelly as ever. The portable trailers used in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to house thousands of people who lost their homes—and that were discovered to contain unhealthy levels of formaldehyde—have returned to the Gu...   read more

About 40% of all unemployed workers had been jobless for six months or longer by the end of 2009—the highest rate ever recorded by the federal government going back to 1948. This percentage of long-term unemployed represented 6.1 million Americans...   read more

America’s major daily newspapers were happy to call waterboarding torture last decade if the interrogation technique was used by a country other than the United States. But the newspapers “almost never” referred to the method of simulated drowning...   read more

It has been nearly four decades since a soldier performed actions that the Department of Defense deemed worthy of being awarded the Medal of Honor, while still alive. But that could change soon if the White House goes along with the Pentagon’s rec...   read more

More than 1,800 veterans were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center thanks to poorly sanitized dental equipment. The exposure, which VA officials insisted was “low risk,” took place over a year b...   read more

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP), does not think much of the way the Department of the Treasury has stayed on top of financial institutions that were bailed out by the government during the f...   read more

The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are not following the government’s own forest plan for the Uinta National Forest in north-central Utah, according to three conservation groups that have filed an injunction to stop the re-leasi...   read more

Lawyers for Pfizer were unsuccessful this week in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant over its testing of a drug that killed 11 children in Nigeria and left many others disabled.   The high cour...   read more

Fraudulent birth certificates have become such a problem in Puerto Rico that government officials have taken the drastic step of invalidating all such documents issued before July 1 of this year. The 4 million residents of the island, plus the 1.2...   read more

Four individuals are suing the Florida Department of State over the choice of language in a ballot summary for the November election. At issue is the description of Amendment 9, which was put on the ballot by state lawmakers unhappy with the feder...   read more

In what could become the first step towards allowing genetically-engineered animals into the American diet, the Food and Drug Administration is debating whether to approve a new breed of salmon that can grow twice as fast as natural salmon.   Aq...   read more

Military officials have ambitious plans for conducting psychological operations (PSYOP) against America’s enemies, at a cost of about $1 billion. But the Department of Defense is not sufficiently staffed to implement all of its PSYOP goals, so it’...   read more