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

Legal powerhouse Bingham McCutchen is loading up on former federal regulators who failed to catch many of the highest profile Wall Street disasters in recent years. After hiring former chairman Christopher Cox and enforcement official Herbert Jani...   read more

The 372nd Military Police Company, which became infamous during the Abu Ghraib scandal six years ago, may be sent back to Iraq later this year. The Army Reserve unit is scheduled to undergo one to three months of training at Fort Bliss, Texas, be...   read more

The General Services Administration is in trouble with the American Small Business League (ASBL), which is alleging in a lawsuit that federal contracts intended for small companies are being awarded to large corporations. ASBL, which represents 10...   read more

President Barack Obama’s plan to revamp the nation’s space program is not sitting well with two of NASA’s biggest aerospace contractors, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Under the new vision put forth by Obama, NASA would scrap its return to the moon a...   read more

District Attorney Scott Southworth of Juneau County, Wisconsin, does not like the state’s new sex education law and is threatening to charge teachers with contributing to the delinquency of children if they teach students about using condoms and t...   read more

Federal prosecutors are investigating a small jail in Buffalo, New York, where six inmates have committed suicide in the past five years. That total, for the 680-bed Erie County Holding Facility, is considerably out of proportion compared with Ri...   read more

The pending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens means not only the loss of the U.S. Supreme Court’s oldest member, but also its only Protestant. This development has raised the question among legal observers whether President Barack Obama shou...   read more

After waiting more than a year for her confirmation, Dawn Johnsen withdrew her nomination on Friday as head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).In a statement released by the White House, Johnsen blamed Republican oppositi...   read more

In the wake of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia, the United States’ worst mining disaster in four decades, media scrutiny has turned to the federal agency whose mission is to prevent such accidents from happening   The Mine S...   read more

Nearly 300,000 American troops have served three, four or more times in Iraq and/or Afghanistan, while cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have risen dramatically since the wars began. The possible correlation between these two facts ha...   read more

Ken Hayworth, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, has come up with an unusual potential form of immortality by preserving the human brain in a computer. Most theories of extending life, such as using experimental supplements or super-sensitive healt...   read more

Development of a nuclear energy program is gaining political support within Iraq, according to a research paper produced for the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. Norman Cigar, a U.S. Marine Corps research fellow, writes that “t...   read more

What do Oppenheimer & Co., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Fremont General Corp., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, State Street Corp. and Bank United Corp. all have in common? In addition to being financial institutions, they’ve each been sued f...   read more

Less than 7% of corporate fraud cases are uncovered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), based on an academic study of 216 instances of criminal behavior by companies. The analysis (“Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?”) determin...   read more

It’s not every day that Major John Bini, a U.S. military surgeon, dons body armor before going into the operating room. But he did just that after an Afghan soldier was brought in on March 18 with an unusual head wound—a nearly three-inch unexplod...   read more

Now is the time to revisit the New Deal’s Work Progress Administration (WPA), which was created 75 years ago, writes Mike Elk at Campaign for America’s Future. The WPA provided more than three million jobs for a struggling economy in the 1930s, gi...   read more