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

When detainee Mohammed Al-Adahi testified via secure video link in June from Guantánamo Bay, the Department of Defense was supposed to record his testimony, on orders from U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler. Al-Adahi was testifying remotely for hi...   read more

What a person earns isn’t as important as what they bring to society, according to the New Economics Foundation (NEF). The self-described “think-and-do tank” examined a range of high- and low-paying jobs in British society and concluded that banke...   read more

House Democrats narrowly passed a Wall Street reform plan on Friday, sending to the Senate a mixed bag of changes that was both praised and criticized by consumer advocates. Detractors of the financial industry were happy with the idea of creating...   read more

First there was “astroturfing”—the creation of phony grass roots movements that give politicians the impression of popular feelings on an issue. Now, there’s “virtual-turfing,” in which the health insurance industry is using online games to get Fa...   read more

Following up on President Barack Obama’s pledge to focus illegal immigration crackdowns on violent criminals, 400 agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service last week conducted its largest sweep ever of dangerous undocumente...   read more

Since NBC doesn’t bother to point out the conflicts of interest held by oft-used military analyst Barry McCaffrey, Huffington Post and others have. McCaffrey has appeared on the network’s cable subsidiary, MSNBC, no less than 10 times in the past ...   read more

It took a federal employee contest for the Department of Veterans Affairs to realize that throwing out medicine constitutes a waste of money. Last spring, President Barack Obama asked government employees to submit their cost-savings ideas to make...   read more

Even though growth in the U.S. prison population has been declining this decade, the total number of people behind bars still is greater than the number of Americans living in almost one quarter of the states. From 2007 to 2008 the prison populati...   read more

Acknowledging a wrong committed at the outbreak of World War II that cost hundreds of Americans their college education, the University of California system has awarded honorary degrees this month to Japanese-Americans who were forcefully relocate...   read more

States have not been allowed to ban politicians from public office on religious grounds for almost 50 years, but that’s not stopping residents in Asheville, North Carolina, a town of 75,000, from trying to unseat a newly-elected atheist from the c...   read more

Friending a Florida judge on Facebook is okay as long as you’re not an attorney. So says the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, which ruled last month it’s better that justices and lawyers not give the wrong impression of being virtual fr...   read more

“Stupid and complex” is how author and attorney William Cox characterizes the current system of taxation in the United States. Over time, the burden of taxes has increasingly fallen upon the middle-class, and that needs to change, Cox argues. Ther...   read more

If a group of Indiana National Guardsmen win their legal battle against defense contractor KBR Inc., Jim Gentry will not be one to enjoy the victory. Gentry, a former commanding officer and plaintiff in the case, died last week from a rare form of...   read more

Nurses from one end of the United States to another have formed the largest nurses union to date to give them a greater voice in the health care debate and expand their ranks. The new National Nurses United will represent about 150,000 nurses foll...   read more

More than three dozen mortgage companies with shady histories of lending were given the stamp of approval by Ginnie Mae (aka the Government National Mortgage Association), which played a significant role in the housing crisis by helping banks pack...   read more

Zero tolerance means just that in Serbia, where drinking at soccer stadiums is strictly forbidden. The country’s president, Boris Tadić, found this out after he was slapped with a fine of 400 euros ($584) for popping open a champagne bottle in a V...   read more