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

Army Specialist Marc Hall will not undergo a court martial trial, and instead has been released from his military service. Hall, a.k.a. hip hop artist Marc Watercus, was arrested in December after he refused to be sent back to Iraq and produced a ...   read more

An estimated 20 billion birds in recent decades have altered their migratory habits in response to climate change, says a leading ornithologist, Miguel Ferrer, of Spain. This means approximately 70% of the world’s migrating birds changed either th...   read more

Going green can entail not only how a person lives life on the planet, but how they leave it as well. Jane Hillhouse, founder of FinalFootprint.com, is part of a growing movement to offer environmentally-friendly burials that eliminate toxic chemi...   read more

Caring for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental illnesses is costing the federal government billions of dollars a year, and will continue to do so for years to come. According to an analysis of Department ...   read more

Described as a change long overdue by gay rights activists, hospitals will soon have to allow visitation rights to homosexual partners, under orders from President Barack Obama. The new rule will be enforced through the federal government’s Medica...   read more

The boom times for military contractors may be coming to an end if the Obama administration follows through on plans to cut back on outsourcing defense jobs to the private sector. During the previous decade, the Department of Defense, under Presid...   read more

Wanting to prove its weapons are safe to use, even on subjects who have ingested methamphetamine, Taser International sponsored a research study that drugged more than two dozen sheep and subjected them to the electric-shock weapon. The company fe...   read more

Conservative attorney and author Ken Connor is not willing to go along with reforms to the legal system that big business and many on the right have been advocating. Using the recent mining disaster in West Virginia as an example, Connor points ou...   read more

A lot of Americans on both the left and the right have been wondering if the bankers and Wall Street investors who caused the economic collapse that began in 2008 would ever have to pay the price for what they did to the country. Goldman Sachs emp...   read more

Taking a husband’s name comes at a price for married women. Dutch researchers have determined wives who change their name can wind up making less money—$1,162 a month—because of cultural perceptions in comparison to women who keep their pre-marria...   read more

What once required hundreds of sailors may soon need only dozens as the U.S. Navy moves to a new fleet of high-tech, innovative coastal vessels known as littoral ships. Naval commanders are deciding between two different designs of littorals—one b...   read more

Despite losing two court decisions, banks have decided to continue the fight against the media publishing the names of institutions bailed out by the Federal Reserve during the worst of the financial crisis in 2008.   The Clearing House Payment ...   read more

Regardless of the rhetorical attacks Republicans have lobbed at him for being soft on terrorism, President Barack Obama is continuing much of his predecessor’s policies and strategies for the war on terror, argues Eli Lake at Reason.com.   Sure,...   read more

Not known for its public displays of new weaponry, Israel’s military sent a message to Iran recently by unveiling its latest “breakthrough” in unmanned aircraft, the Heron TP, nicknamed Eitan, which is Hebrew for “strong.”   The Eitan is the wor...   read more

A huge scandal involving allegations of game rigging and bribery has erupted in South Korea, where online video entertainment attracts serious, big-money players. South Korea has professional leagues associated with 21 different video games, but t...   read more

First, it was radio music. Now, it is school bells that have been outlawed in Somalia, under orders from al-Shabab, the country’s most powerful Islamist insurgent group. Al-Shabab ordered teachers in the town of Jowhar, north of the capital city o...   read more