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

A 30-year failure to develop a permanent site for storing nuclear waste has cost the federal government billions of dollars in fines paid to power companies. After putting all of its hopes in the Yucca Mountain repository, Washington now is starti...   read more

After enduring the murders of his children by his wife in February 2007, Bouchaib Moqadem of Belgium is now being asked to pay for the prosecution of his wife, Genevieve Lhermitte. The government spent 72,743 euros ($97,000) to convict Lhermitte o...   read more

The tax news has been all good lately for some of the nation’s leading banks. First, JPMorgan Chase found out it will receive a fat refund from the federal government, and now Bank of America and Wells Fargo won’t have to pay federal income taxes ...   read more

For $5 million the Department of Defense got 43 minutes of work—a month—out of each mechanic hired by defense contractor KBR Inc. to repair vehicles at Joint Base Balad near Baghdad, Iraq. This enormous waste of taxpayer dollars was uncovered by t...   read more

More than four million prescriptions were filled last year for nitroglycerin tablets that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This represents 80% of all under-the-tongue nitroglycerin prescriptions. But the FDA is now dem...   read more

Florida has earned a reputation for relying on “cash register justice” to help pay for its court system, according to a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law. What this amounts to is individuals—both t...   read more

Despite having a reputation for traffic congestion, Los Angeles managed to land only one freeway among the 10 worst bottlenecks in the United States. According to INRIX’s annual traffic scorecard, New York City has the highest number of the most t...   read more

Michael Chertoff, the former homeland security chief who’s not been shy about exploiting terrorist threats for the benefit of his clients, has decided to join a top defense contractor that defrauded the U.S. government.   The one-time head of th...   read more

A bipartisan group of 29 governors is calling for a national renewable energy standard which would mean greater use of wind-generated power. The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition released a report that calls for streamlining the process of developi...   read more

New to Seattle and unsure which Christian congregation to join? Check out ChurchRater.com, a website that provides reviews and rankings of local churches. Church Rater is the creation of former evangelical pastor Jim Henderson and atheist Matt Cas...   read more

Spicy would not do justice to describe the bhut jolokia. Measured to be the hottest chili pepper in the world, the bhut jolokia is being put to use not just in the kitchens of India but in defense research laboratories as well.   Indian military...   read more

Deans of admissions at universities would be advised to pray for gloomy weather on visitation days. A study by a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania found that prospective students are more likely to choose a college ...   read more

The housing market recorded its worst month ever for new homes sales in February. The 308,000 total was the lowest since the federal government began tracking such data in 1963, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the ...   read more

It’s okay for judges to surf the Internet during trial proceedings in order to validate assumptions used to make a ruling, according to a federal appeals court. The issue of accessing the Web arose during a hearing to decide if convicted bank robb...   read more

JPMorgan Chase & Co. may enjoy two helpings of tax relief thanks to a little publicized stimulus provision that permits banks and businesses to apply loses from 2008 or 2009 against taxes paid in the previous five years. This break could mean a ta...   read more

As the Arctic heats up, so does international interest in the previously inaccessible region. A lack of territory adjacent to the Arctic Ocean has not stopped China from preparing for the day when ships will be able to sail through the once-frozen...   read more