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

Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since July 2002, has been ordered released by a federal judge who said Hatim’s confessions of being a terrorist were tainted by torture. U.S. officials have insisted Hatim was part of al-Qae...   read more

When local governments need more cash, cities and counties look for new ways to raise revenue. Some municipalities have turned to shortening yellow lights at intersections in order to catch more people running red lights, and thus generate more tr...   read more

Today, there are only 100 panthers left alive in the state of Florida. The precariously low total makes the death of any of the native cats a cause for concern, which is why one conservation group is especially alarmed about the number of panthers...   read more

Bank robberies could become a thing of the past if financial institutions follow the lead of those in Illinois. Two years ago, banks in that state began inserting GPS tracking devices into bundles of bills, and since then, robberies have declined....   read more

On April 3, 2009, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Martha Johnson to be the next Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency that provides procurement services to federal agencies, manages c...   read more

After failing to gain political support for the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Hurley, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), President Barack Obama turned to congressional aide Da...   read more

President Obama rewarded one of his most prominent conservative Catholic supporters by nominating Douglas W. Kmiec to be ambassador to Malta, a tiny Mediterranean island nation with an overwhelmingly Catholic population and little present-day stra...   read more

Since March 2009, the elected Chair of the United States Access Board has been Douglas J. Anderson. The Board is an independent Federal agency that works to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities. It operates with about thirty staff and...   read more

In nominating Earl F. Gohl, Jr. to serve as the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, President Barack Obama played up Gohl’s years of experience in Pennsylvania state and local government. Left out of the November 16, 2009, ann...   read more

Imagine this question on the game show Family Feud: Corporations Americans Hate Most. Answer: AIG.   This conclusion was reached by the website 24/7 Wall St.com, which examined hundreds of companies using data based on employee impressions, retu...   read more

What if American soldiers had flying cars with which to travel around countries like Afghanistan, so as to avoid running over roadside bombs planted by the enemy? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) thinks this idea might just be...   read more

In 1997, the city of Portland, Oregon, launched a program to award more construction contracts to minority-owned businesses. Twelve years later, an audit of the Sheltered Market Program found that the biggest recipients were white men, who receive...   read more

One clear indicator of why the economy did so poorly last year was found in the construction industry, whose status can greatly affect the health of the nation. In 2009, more than 95% of 337 cities examined by the Associated General Contractors of...   read more

For the third year in a row, the Internal Revenue Service is expected to answer fewer calls from taxpayers seeking answers about their taxes. In 2007, IRS customer service representatives managed to answer 83% of all incoming calls—in 2008, the ra...   read more

Despite two years of recession, cities throughout the United States are reporting progress in getting chronic homeless individuals off the streets. The United States Conference of Mayors, which conducts an annual survey on homelessness, has repo...   read more

December was not a month to remember for auto manufacturer Chrysler, and neither was the year it wrapped up. The bad news for Chrysler came in many forms: auto sales declined 4% last month compared to the same time in 2008; sales overall for 2009 ...   read more