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 coalition of anti-smoking groups claims a majority of Americans want every state in the nation to raise their tax on cigarettes by $1 a pack. They cite polling data showing that 60% of respondents favor a cigarette tax boost that would bring in ...   read more

Avoiding what legal experts said could have been a first-of-its-kind case, the U.S. Army agreed this week not to court-martial a young female soldier who refused deployment because she had no one to care for her child. Instead of trying Specialist...   read more

In another move demonstrating a rightward title in its advertising choices, CBS has rejected a video billboard ad for Times Square that advocated for the legalization of marijuana.   The NORML Foundation, part of the National Organization for th...   read more

Even members of Congress are not above the navel gazing so many Americans express through their postings on Twitter. Amelia Hassani at OhMyGov! tracked over a period of several months all the U.S. senators and representatives who tweet and then co...   read more

He may not be the original discoverer of the flying disc, but Walter Frederick “Fred” Morrison will undoubtedly go down in history for his achievement. In the late 1950s, fledgling toy manufacturer Wham-O began selling the Frisbee, a simple plasti...   read more

President Obama’s selection to serve in the Department of Energy as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Dr. James J. Markowsky, is an energy industry veteran with a strong technical background in research and development. While exciting and nov...   read more

Daryl J. Boness, nominated on January 19, 2010, by President Barack Obama to be the next chairman of the Marine Mammal Commission, is a retired scientist who spent most of his career working at the National Zoo and studying seals, sea lions and wa...   read more

Enormous Wall Street bonuses have been roundly criticized by President Barack Obama in the past, calling them “obscene,” “shameful,” an “outrage” and a violation “our fundamental values.” But now Obama doesn’t feel the need to “begrudge” the combi...   read more

Not only did economic growth and job opportunities plummet during the Great Recession, but so did illegal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security has released new statistics showing the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. fell f...   read more

Blackwater, the controversial security firm responsible for numerous shootings and deaths of civilians, has been kicked out of Iraq. About 250 former and current employees of the company, which now operates under the name Xe, were told they had se...   read more

A movement calling itself the “Robin Hood Tax” wants world leaders to tax banks and other financial institutions that gamble with speculative investments, the kind helped bring about the 2008 economic crisis. Supporters of the tax claim it could r...   read more

American tax dollars are being spent on the construction or maintenance of approximately 700 military or security bases in Afghanistan, raising questions about President Barack Obama’s promise to begin pulling out of the country next year. An asse...   read more

Melanie Sloan, head of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, in Washington, put it best when she remarked that it’s not a crime to be a hypocrite in Washington, DC. If it were, a lot of lawmakers would be in trouble, especiall...   read more

The first military trial of a Guantánamo detainee under President Barack Obama is likely to feature a young Canadian who was only 15 when captured in Afghanistan in 2002. Omar Khadr was seized by U.S. Special Forces following an attack on an Afgha...   read more

The potential prison time continues to grow for those accused of being involved in the biggest insider trading scandal ever involving hedge funds. Federal prosecutors this week submitted a revised indictment against Raj Rajaratnam, a former portfo...   read more

Doling out $700 billion to bail out banks required a lot of manpower, according to the Department of the Treasury, which turned to private accounting and legal firms to help run the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). But there are concerns that...   read more