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 survived Hurricane Camille in 1969. It survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It survived more than a century’s worth of economic recessions and depressions. But P&J Oyster Company couldn’t withstand the oil spill of 2010.   First opened for bus...   read more

Until now, federal regulators relied on a U.S.-based inspection operation to certify organic goods imported from China. But after discovering that the inspector—Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) of Nebraska—was using Chinese government e...   read more

President Barack Obama turned to an agency veteran, Leocadia I. Zak to lead the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). USTDA is an independent agency responsible for helping promote development in other countries while also advancing economic ...   read more

Sentencing reform for non-violent offenders could lead to billion-dollar reductions in state and local corrections budgets, argues the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in a new report.   The authors of “The High Budgetary Costs of ...   read more

Japan’s effort to overturn the moratorium on commercial whaling may have hit a snag following an investigation by the Sunday Times of London that found Japanese officials are bribing officials on the International Whaling Commission (IWC).   Pos...   read more

One of President Obama’s most controversial nominations has been that of Joseph Pizarchik to be the Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), a bureau within the US Department of the Interior (DOI) charged with th...   read more

If confirmed as chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission, Tracie Stevens would become the first woman to lead the oversight body for the $27 billion Indian gaming industry.   A member of the Tulalip Tribes in Washington State, Stevens was ...   read more

Days after the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk, the first official estimate of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was 200 barrels a day. It then changed to 1,000 barrels, and then 5,000. Now, scientists are talking about 20,000 barrels a ...   read more

Hispanics are exiting Arizona before the state’s controversial immigration law goes into effect in July. Citing anecdotal evidence, USA Today reported that schools in Hispanic neighborhoods are experiencing unusual declines in enrollment and busin...   read more

Federal prosecutors filed indictments on Friday against five current or former New Orleans police officers for the killing of Henry Glover days after Hurricane Katrina in September 2, 2005. The U.S. Department of Justice claims rookie officer Davi...   read more

Perhaps bowing to public pressure to stop the oil spill, the U.S. Coast Guard has decided to reverse its earlier position to not reach out to the private sector for solutions to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The Coast Guard Research and Develop...   read more

In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP’s stock value has plummeted, prompting news stories identifying the company’s largest investors. Oddly enough, some media outlets have failed to identify the largest BP shareholder: the U.S. investme...   read more

Both the State Department and Department of Defense need to improve or expand their ranks of foreign language specialists, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO in its report on national security programs criticized Stat...   read more

So much for double jeopardy. The provision in law that forbids an individual from being tried twice for the same crime has not applied to Curtis Flowers. The African-American man is now facing his sixth trial for allegedly killing four people at a...   read more

At least 211 graves at Arlington National Cemetery have been mishandled, provoking scorn and promises of investigation by lawmakers in Congress. The discovery was made by the inspector general for the U.S. Army who found remains interred at the hi...   read more

Dolphins have become a regular part of the U.S. Navy’s defense and counterterrorism efforts, both in the United States and abroad. The Navy has deployed 80 specially-trained dolphins (and sea lions) on missions in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterrane...   read more