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

If Google does pull out of China, it will yield its 36% market share to rival Baidu, a Chinese Internet portal and search service that’s not as “home grown” as Beijing claims. Baidu got to where it is today, controlling 58% of the Chinese Net sear...   read more

A former police officer and FBI agent, Erroll Southers has spent the last several years helping run security for one of the world’s busiest airports—Los Angeles International — while also teaching classes and working at an anti-terrorism center fo...   read more

Porn has been bad for The Beaver. As Canada’s venerable historical journal, The Beaver spent 90 years educating Canadians about important people and events of the past, but the modern euphemism “beaver” forced publishers of the magazine to change ...   read more

With Haiti in shambles from the recent 7.0 earthquake, the Department of Homeland Security has decided to temporarily halt all deportations to the island nation. Approximately 30,000 Haitians living illegally in the U.S. were subject to arrest and...   read more

With refugee crises unfolding on every inhabited continent, the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has its work cut out for it. New Bureau Director Eric P. Schwartz, who was confirmed June 19, 2009, has broad experience ...   read more

The public will have to wait eight years to find out the details of the AIG bailout that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner oversaw in 2008 while running the New York operation of the Federal Reserve. Last May, the Securities and Exchange Commi...   read more

Google, which previously caved into demands by China’s government to censor Internet searches in order to enter the Chinese market, is now threatening to pull out of the country altogether. Beijing’s atrocious record on human rights did not keep G...   read more

Use a cell phone to videotape a police arrest and go to jail. That’s what has happened to some Massachusetts residents who have tried to capture images of police apprehending criminal suspects.   Jon Surmacz pulled out his phone to record police...   read more

When it comes to government programs that provide medical care and inspect food, the White House has been slow to appoint leaders. A year into the Obama administration and the $450-billion Medicare program is without someone to run it, leaving the...   read more

Mozart does wonders for the human body. Following up on earlier research that found the symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart helped boost the intelligence levels of college students, a group of pediatricians decided to apply the “Mozart effect” t...   read more

John McLaughlin, President Barack Obama’s choice to uncover the intelligence failures surrounding the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt and the Fort Hood shootings, has been called one of the brightest minds of the intelligence community. But ...   read more

The Federal Reserve continues to block attempts by the business newswire Bloomberg to obtain the names of banks rescued by the federal government since the beginning of the financial crisis. Bloomberg won a lower court ruling that instructed the F...   read more

Brandon Neely did not enjoy his time spent at Camp X-Ray, where he says the U.S. abused many of the suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Bay naval facility. An Army specialist, Neely was one of the guards who kept watch over detainees like Ruhal...   read more

With thousands of wounded troops in need of special housing after leaving the hospital, the U.S. Army has decided to spend $1.2 billion to build specialized barracks and transition centers for soldiers facing an average of seven months of recovery...   read more

Two missing letters from an intelligence document cost John Dullahan his spy job with the Department of Defense, he claims in a lawsuit filed against much of the intelligence community. Dullahan, who spent two decades serving as an Army intelligen...   read more

As a congressman from Michigan for the last 54 years, Democrat John Dingell Jr. has paid close attention to the needs of his state’s flagship industry: automobile manufacturing. But Dingell’s relationship with one of the Big Three automakers has t...   read more