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

Appearing before a congressional committee investigating the Christmas Day bomb attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers this week that a special anti-terrorism unit known as the “High Val...   read more

Using what it calls a “completely unscientific but accurate statistical equation,” the Advocate magazine has compiled a list of the 15 gayest cities in the United States. The point of the ranking is to show how homosexuals are continuing to becom...   read more

Macho B, the last known surviving jaguar in the United States, was euthanized early last year after being caught in a trap intentionally set by Arizona wildlife officials. A federal investigation found that the jaguar was captured in a leg-hold sn...   read more

Military veterans William Hauser and Jerome Slater want to bring back the draft—the likes of which America has never experienced. Hauser, a retired Army colonel and Vietnam veteran, and Slater, professor emeritus of political science at SUNY Buffa...   read more

President Barack Obama appointed a new ambassador for the South American nation of Suriname, a relatively prosperous country in northern South America with a fairly well-developed mining and manufacturing sector, whose population is almost evenly ...   read more

President Obama has chosen a career diplomat, Judith (Judy) G. Garber, to represent the U.S. as ambassador to Latvia, the first career diplomat to the small Baltic nation since Brian E. Carlson served in Riga from 2001 to 2004. Garber’s two immedi...   read more

The former head of Somalia’s military is now the focus of a potential landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court which will decide whether foreign officials now living in the country can be subject to U.S. law.   Mohamed Ali Samantar, once Soma...   read more

The American suburb is losing its luster as the symbol of middle-class comfort and prosperity. The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program says poverty is significantly up in the ‘burbs, growing by 25% from 9.9 million people in 2000 t...   read more

When members of Congress travel overseas at the expense of the Department of Defense, they are treated to thousands of dollars worth of alcohol and other amenities. A review by The Wall Street Journal of congressional disclosure documents for 43 t...   read more

If President Barack Obama is looking for evidence to show moderates and conservatives that he’s not the knee-jerk liberal they claim, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has just provided some. The pro-gun-control organization has reviewed ...   read more

Photographer José Luis Rodríguez has been stripped of his award as Wildlife Photographer of the Year, presented by the Natural History Museum of London and BBC Wildlife Magazine, after judges concluded Rodríguez used a trained wolf for his winning...   read more

Congressional delays of President Barack Obama’s appointments to federal posts are considerably worse than they were during the beginning of former President George W. Bush’s first term. After one year in office, Bush was still waiting for 70 appo...   read more

Twenty-five states have run out of money to pay for unemployment insurance, forcing them to borrow at least $25 billion in order to keep sending out benefits checks. Those in the red, according to ProPublica, include the nation’s largest and most ...   read more

Written off by the military as not only “suicides” but also deliberate attempts to make the U.S. look bad, the deaths of three detainees at Guantánamo Bay in 2006 may have been in fact the result of torture by interrogators at a secret location wh...   read more

Some good may have come out of the devastation that hit New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Although the city’s health care system took a beating from the storm and subsequent flooding, a new network of clinics has sprung up—and is now providing ...   read more

Sometimes a deal is not only too good to be true, but it also will get you sued. In 2007, Tammie Townsend of Hopkins, Minnesota, leased a Chrysler Pacifica, before later asking the dealership, Walser Chrysler, if she could buy it. A salesman told ...   read more