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

Judge Durwood Moore of Dickson County, Tennessee, used to force spectators in his courtroom to submit to random drug tests—until the state’s judicial oversight body censured Moore for violating peoples’ constitutional rights. Moore finally went to...   read more

Amanda Simpson would like to be known for who she is and her professional qualities, rather than what she was in the past. But because she had a sex change operation, making her the first transgender person to serve in an administration by preside...   read more

A law in the United Kingdom once intended to pursue Nazi war criminals is today being used to go after Israeli military and civilian officials accused of wrongly killing Palestinians. Under British law, judges are allowed to issue secret arrest wa...   read more

Americans are not a happy lot when it comes to their jobs. Only 45% of those surveyed say they are satisfied with their work, the lowest level ever recorded in the 22 years of polling by The Conference Board. Last year, the figure was 49%, whereas...   read more

Leading scientists from academia, industry and government are now gaining access to information on climate change that’s collected by spy agencies. The data, which includes high resolution images taken from intelligence satellites, is helping rese...   read more

Five states currently allow homosexuals to marry, a right that’s been slow to spread because of complaints that such unions would pervert the institution of marriage. Meanwhile, more than 50% of the nation’s states do permit first cousins to marry...   read more

For those people who wish they could be in two places at the same time, and have a couple hundred thousand dollars to blow, Japan has the Actroid to offer. Manufactured by Kokoro, Actroids are doppelganger robots made to look and behave similarly ...   read more

Civilian fatalities in Afghanistan increased in 2009, but the United States and its allies were not responsible for the majority of the deaths. According to statistics compiled by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Afghan deaths went up nea...   read more

American soldiers have been going it alone in Iraq since last summer, when the last partners of President George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing” pulled out. But the name, Multinational Force Iraq, didn’t officially change until the New Year f...   read more

The United States lost 45,000 businesses in 2009, including some that had been around for more than 100 years. CNNMoney.com featured a half dozen of the centurys-old companies that went under last year.   Holcomb’s Education Resource of Clevelan...   read more

Approximately 17,000 different chemicals used by private industry in the United States are kept secret, leaving the public and most government officials in the dark about the physical properties and potential dangers posed to Americans. This situa...   read more

Credit card issuers are producing new fees and deals to make up for the $50 billion in revenue they expect to lose as a result of the Credit Card Act of 2009. Some store-based cards, like those offered by sporting-goods chain Gander Mountain, will...   read more

As if selling complex, volatile investment deals weren’t bad enough, Goldman Sachs utilized off-shore accounts in the Cayman Islands to help themselves and other Wall Street institutions hide the true nature of their high-stakes schemes that contr...   read more

Former Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff has been all over the airwaves since the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, advising the nation that it should invest in full-body scanners for airports. What Chertoff fail...   read more

Brits who decided to spend New Year’s Eve at the Tan Hill Inn got more than they had hoped for, thanks to inclement weather. Heavy snow falls forced revelers to spend not one, not two but three nights at the pub once roads were closed due to drift...   read more

Iraqis were stunned to learn last week that charges against five Blackwater guards accused of the September 16, 2007, killing of 17 civilians and wounding of 20 have been dropped completely.   The federal government’s mishandling of the Blackwat...   read more