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

Switzerland is big on animal rights, so much so that voters today cast their ballots on whether the government should provide lawyers to animals that have been abused. Backers of the measure, which received 144,000 signatures to get on the ballot,...   read more

In compliance with the reform legislation adopted last year by Congress, the Federal Reserve board is proposing new rules to limit credit card issuers from unloading “unreasonable” late payments on consumers and hiking interest rates. Fed official...   read more

Karol Cabrera, a controversial journalist in Honduras, survived an assassination attempt last week that took place while she conducted a radio interview via phone in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Cabrera was traveling by car with Joseph Hernández Oc...   read more

Valued at $5 million, the September 2009 purchase of Premier Election Solutions Inc. by Election Systems & Software Inc. (ES&S) was not something that immediately captured headlines. But what the deal lacked in purchase price, it made up for in c...   read more

Estimates for the civilian casualty rate in Pakistan from U.S. drone attacks have varied widely depending on the source, according to the New America Foundation. The rate at which non-militants have died or been injured in aerial assaults by Preda...   read more

Insisting science has eliminated the need for sexual orientation-profiling when it comes to blood donations, 18 U.S. senators have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to eliminate the ban on homosexuals giving blood. The government impose...   read more

Breasts, even those made of snow and shaped in the figure of famous artwork, were too much for one New Jersey community to handle. Rahway, New Jersey, police told Maria Conneran and her family that the snow woman they built in their front yard, wh...   read more

More than one million taxpayers did not file returns with the IRS in 2006, leaving the government sitting on more than $1.3 billion worth of possible refunds. Americans who did not file four years ago can still send in their returns, but they must...   read more

Putting aside the economic reality facing thousands of their constituents, eight Republican U.S. senators voted this week against the 30-day extension of unemployment benefits for Americans still looking for work. The legislation was held up prima...   read more

Accused of being behind hundreds of kidnappings and murders has not ruined Hakim al-Zamili’s chances of getting elected to Iraq’s parliament, thanks to his connections within Shiite political circles.   Al-Zamili was accused and put on trial for...   read more

Food poisoning is not taken seriously enough in the United States, contends the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts.   Some studies, such as those produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), have pegge...   read more

Facebook is not the place to post classified information about cross-boarder raids if you’re in Israel’s military. Using his cell phone, a soldier recently wrote on his Facebook page about his unit’s plans to slip into Palestinian territory, and m...   read more

As part of his efforts to rein in government spending, President Barack Obama wants to eliminate the International Labor Comparisons (ILC) office, a move that has upset unions, academics and business leaders. Costing about $2 million a year, the I...   read more

Doing business in Columbia has proven to be expensive for food company Chiquita, which has paid millions of dollars in ransoms to terrorists and now is being sued by Americans whose relatives were killed by the same groups. Chiquita’s payment of a...   read more

Accused of performing faulty electrical work that may have led to the deaths of American soldiers, defense contractor KBR should have no trouble making up for the $25 million it lost after the Department of Defense decided to withhold payment on c...   read more

Paxil, one of the nation’s leading anti-depressant medications, has cost its manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, nearly $1 billion in damages from numerous lawsuits since the drug first became available in 1992.   The review and approval process by t...   read more