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

From readership participation to fundraising, political blogs vary markedly between liberals and conservatives. Researchers at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society studied more than 150 blogs during a two-week span of the 2...   read more

Massey Energy Co., owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that killed 29 workers in early April, was caught recently operating three other mines where safety rules were violated and miners had to be evacuated by inspectors for the Min...   read more

American soldiers exposed in 2003 to smoke from the burning Mishraq Sulfur Mine in northern Iraq have developed serious lung disorders not identifiable using x-rays or CT scans. In June 2003, Iraqi forces opposing the U.S. invasion set fire to the...   read more

In the frozen reaches of Canada, warmer temperatures brought on by climate change have yielded a bounty of historical information for archaeologists. Using the new discipline of ice patch archeology, scientists in recent years have uncovered in th...   read more

Cigarette companies soon will no longer be able to market tobacco products that happen to share the same name as non-tobacco brands owned by other companies, under rules adopted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But this restriction is a...   read more

After winning a $20 million settlement from the federal government, a group of veterans has decided to donate more than half of the money to two organizations that assist soldiers and their families.   The plaintiffs in the data theft lawsuit ag...   read more

Some Wall Street critics believe Goldman Sachs’ list of alleged frauds should include the use of high-speed manipulative trading techniques, some of which may be deemed illegal in the near future by the Securities and Exchange Commission.   Gold...   read more

Former drug kingpins have been on the move, with the United States playing both receiver and sender in two high-level extraditions.   After wanting for years to get their hands on Juan José Quintero Payán (aka Don Juanjo), U.S. law enforcement o...   read more

A sexual discrimination case against Wal-Mart nearly 10 years old is continuing to move forward, although the merits of the class action lawsuit have yet to be vetted in court.   First filed in 2001, the civil case potentially involved 1.6 milli...   read more

Heavily criticized by federal and local officials in the wake of the West Virginia mining accident, Massey Energy Co. is now facing a lawsuit from some of its shareholders.   The civil case, filed by the New Jersey Building Laborers Pension Fund...   read more

It took 346 years, but the Vermont towns of St. George (population: 698) and Shelburne (population: 6,944) finally have an established border between them. The neighboring communities, chartered in 1763, were given overlapping maps during colonial...   read more

Some of the biggest financial players on Wall Street have been helping California’s government sell its general obligation bonds and municipal debt issuances—while at the same time betting against the very same bonds. By participating in credit de...   read more

No shortage of controversy will surround the first military tribunal of a Guantánamo detainee under the Obama administration, scheduled to begin on April 27. On trial will be Omar Khadr, 23, who was 15 when U.S. Special Operations soldiers capture...   read more

Americans could surely use some relief from the burden of healthcare costs, but whatever benefits the recently passed reform plan has to offer are not being realized by a confused population.   When it comes to spending on medical care, the U.S....   read more

For renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, there’s no question that life does exist beyond earth in the universe. But whether we want to actually meet up with other beings, that’s another question, Hawking argues.   In a new documentary produced fo...   read more

Inmates in federal penitentiaries will now be able to publish articles with bylines in magazines and newspapers, following a court-ordered change in Federal Bureau of Prisons’ regulations.   Three years ago, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rul...   read more