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

Described as a once in a half century event by scientists, an enormous iceberg smashed into a peninsula of ice in Antarctica, causing the protruding ice shelf to break off and become an iceberg the size of Luxembourg. The now free-floating iceberg...   read more

Emails discussing the early development of the Bush administration’s use of torture against detainees were deleted several years ago by a key Department of Justice (DOJ) official, prompting the National Archives and Records Administration and othe...   read more

Although the timing is not ideal from a seller’s standpoint, California is looking to unload two dozen state office buildings in order to pay off some of the state’s long-term debt. Among the buildings going up for sale is the twin-towered Ronald ...   read more

Efforts by the U.S. Census Bureau to encourage Americans to participate in this year’s national headcount include paying a fortune cookie company to print promotional messages on those tiny slips of wonder that come with plates of fried rice. For ...   read more

After learning that the Department of Veterans Affairs was under-diagnosing cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among soldiers, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sought documents from the age...   read more

Another subsidiary of CBS has demonstrated again the recent rightward tilt of the broadcast network corporation. CBS Outdoor is allowing right-to-life groups to display controversial messages on billboards in Atlanta that claim African-American ch...   read more

One year into the Obama administration and gun rights advocates have had little to fear. In fact, movements are underway across the country to adopt legislation aiding those who own firearms, contrary to fearful predictions early last year that th...   read more

Somehow, in spite of a fumbling economy and high unemployment, Wall Street bonuses are on the rise again.   Five years ago securities and investment firms paid out a record total of $25.6 billion in compensation. The 2009 mark is lower, but with...   read more

Nuclear power can’t seem to escape the word “risk” even when new technologies offer promises of safer reactor designs. Because of its reputation as a dangerous source of power, efforts to develop new power plants come with considerable financial r...   read more

Prior the Wall Street collapse of 2008, Commerzbank of Germany informed employees of how much they could expect their bonuses to be at the end of the year, which amounted to $500 million in total. But Commerzbank’s profits nosedived after the fina...   read more

Following congressional orders adopted in the credit card reform bill of last year, the Federal Trade Commission has issued new rules to limit offers that try to con consumers to pay for allegedly free credit reports. As of April 1, businesses adv...   read more

More than half of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is made up of private contractors, a revelation that produced shock among the Senate committee that oversees the agency. Of the 388,000 people working for DHS, over 200,000 are private wo...   read more

If the United States really wants to help earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken Haiti, it can do more than just send emergency relief, says foreign policy analyst Robert Naiman. Washington could use its influence to convince the Haitian govern...   read more

For the first time in almost 40 years, a political prisoner in Cuba has died from a hunger strike. Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a 42-year-old plumber and bricklayer, was arrested in 2003 for his participation in several dissident groups. He began a hung...   read more

As if existing air and water pollution aren’t enough to worry about for countries like China, India and others, waste from consumer and home electronics is threatening to become a huge problem unto itself. A new report from the United Nations Envi...   read more

Unless Congress decides to overrule the Department of Defense, women will finally be cleared to serve on nuclear submarines in about a month. The change follows an announcement last fall by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf...   read more