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

Background In a recent survey conducted by the well-respected Field Poll, 56% of registered voters in the state of California said that they favored legalization of marijuana and only 32% opposed it. Because a bill was introduced in the State Ass...   read more

If the health care reform plan crafted by the Senate becomes law, Nebraska will be a big winner, while some of the nation’s most populous states and labor unions will lose out. Nebraska is set to receive an extra $100 million in Medicaid funds und...   read more

Fed up with the greed and recklessness of large national banks, critics of Wall Street are pointing to North Dakota as an alternative for reshaping the banking industry. North Dakota is the only state in the country to own its own bank, the Bank ...   read more

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is patents that make new businesses a reality in a world of contracts and laws. Patent applications, however, are backing up at the federal office in charge of processing them, thanks to repeated bu...   read more

It took six years and 10 months, but the United States finally made it through a month in Iraq without an American soldier dying in combat. December 2009 was the first time since the invasion in March 2003 that no U.S. troop succumbed to injuries ...   read more

The year 2009 was an improvement as far as global wars were concerned, according to the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research. The institute’s annual conflict analysis found there were a total of 365 political trouble spots in 2...   read more

The decade closed out with mixed results for police officers killed in the line of duty. The good news for 2009 was a 7% drop from the previous year in law enforcement deaths, with a total of 124 reported. That figured represented the lowest numbe...   read more

Since 2006-2007, when several high-profile accidents captured national attention, mining-related deaths have dropped in each of the last two years, down to the lowest levels ever recorded. Thirty-four miners died on the job last year, and 52 in 20...   read more

Stretching nearly a half mile into the sky, the world’s tallest building will be officially unveiled Monday (January 4) in Dubai, where the sheikdom is trying to pay off mammoth debts incurred in part from just such ambitious real estate ventures....   read more

Legislation intended to reform Wall Street and protect consumers is currently waddling along in the House of Representatives, moving as best a 1,200-page document can. Bloomberg columnist David Reilly decided to read all of HR 4173 (the “Wall Stre...   read more

Demonstrating the financial industry isn’t entirely back on its feet again, GMAC, the finance branch of General Motors, came under the control of the federal government just before New Year’s, as Washington pumped another $3.8 billion into the stu...   read more

Washington’s generosity towards Israel has amounted to $3 billion a year in military aid since 1985, and extends even further back to the mid-20th century. According to a Congressional Research Service report, no other country has received more fo...   read more

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress began to make preparations for meeting remotely in the event of another threat to the nation’s capital. But even without a crisis, would having an e-Congress be so bad, asks Conor Friedersdorf at AOL’s...   read more

Solving the problem of global warming requires discarding the cap-and-trade policy currently popular with public officials and going instead with something called fee-and-dividend, says scientist James Hansen, the director of the NASA Goddard Inst...   read more

According to his own campaign manager, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) lost the 2008 presidential contest because he was on the wrong side of the Wall Street debacle, siding with the pro-business philosophies that helped create the mess. Now, the ...   read more

Sounding like a character from the film Armageddon, Russia’s leading space official, Anatoly Perminov, warned this week that action must be taken to keep an asteroid from striking the earth in 2036. Perminov said “lives are at stake” unless Russi...   read more