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

Efforts by Americans to pay down their debts have not yielded more available credit. The Federal Reserve has reported that consumer credit plunged $17.5 billion in November, as banks continued to pull back on lending. From September 2008 through N...   read more

At least nine churches in Malaysia have been vandalized this month since the country’s highest court overturned a ban on the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims. Malaysia’s High Court ruled in favor of the Catholic Church on December 31, allowi...   read more

Unable to use lead in products it sells to the United States, manufacturers of children’s jewelry in China are turning instead to cadmium—a heavy metal known to cause cancer. The Associated Press had a laboratory test a random sampling of Chinese-...   read more

A U.S. Supreme Court ban on executions of mentally-retarded murderers has not stopped Texas from keeping such convicts on Death Row. In Atkins v. Virginia, the high court in 2002 left it to states to decide their own definition of retarded, creati...   read more

The climate for judges and prosecutors who work for the U.S. government has turned dangerous recently. Threats have more than doubled within the past five years, according to a new study by the Department of Justice’s inspector general that examin...   read more

Ken Brown, a shareholder of Goldman Sachs, claims the firm is supposed to spend about 50% of its net revenue on salaries and bonuses. But in 2008 Goldman dished out $4.82 billion in bonuses despite earnings of only $2.32 billion..In the first quar...   read more

Have no fear “Lost” fans, the President of the United States will not be messing with your season premiere. Ever since the White House indicated that President Barack Obama might move back his State of the Union (SOTU) address from late January ...   read more

As required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, the Department of Justice conducted its first-ever study to determine how many minors are being sexually assaulted in prison. After surveying more than 26,000 incarcerated youths (91% male, 9...   read more

Sometimes a political contributor can give handsomely to the losing side and still come out a winner. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis is one such example. Daughter of a real estate tycoon and California political player, Tsakopoulos Kounalakis raised...   read more

As the South goes with its public schools so goes the rest of the nation, and that could lead to significant challenges for the U.S. economy. More than half of all public school students in the South are poor and members of a minority group—the fi...   read more

Exposure to lead at an early age can result in higher risks of committing crimes as an adult, according to researchers in Cincinnati, Ohio. Experts from the University of Cincinnati spent 30 years working on their study, following the offspring of...   read more

Some Republicans are taking revisionist history to a new and bizarre partisan level in their attempts to convince the American people that GOP leaders are good at protecting the country from terrorism, while Democrats aren’t. On Friday, former New...   read more

Like those who served before him in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama intends to disregard certain parts of new laws adopted by Congress—only in a quieter and less transparent manner. In the first half of 2009, Obama issued several “signing ...   read more

California Highway Patrol (CHP) Sergeant Richard Fuentes thought he had made a successful drug bust when he caught Saguro Doven, 33, with 60 pounds of marijuana in his car. But Doven claimed at his trial that he was transporting the pot as part of...   read more

The great Chihuahua airlift has begun. Flooded with thousands of the tiny dogs, animal shelters in California have made arrangements to ship Chihuahuas to the East Coast, where there’s plenty of demand for and little supply of the animals.   Rec...   read more

Specialist Marc Hall, aka hip hop artist Marc Watercus, was looking forward to the end of his U.S. Army service in February and never going back to Iraq, when commanders decided to “stop-loss” him—the policy that allows military officials to keep ...   read more