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

Supporting Barack Obama for president is proving to be an occupational hazard. Following a Kansas salesman’s claim of being fired for voting for Obama, Julia James of New York is suing her former employer for allegedly terminating her for attendin...   read more

American children stand a better chance of getting a safe meal at Jack in the Box than they do from their school lunch program. An investigation by USA Today found the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which provides meat and poultry to schoo...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to maintain former President George W. Bush’s policy on biological weapons, which rejected the idea of international verification to ensure countries are not developing such agents. The Biological Weapons Conve...   read more

America’s labor force is made up of more immigrants today than anytime since the early 20th century, comprising 16% of all workers. Not since before 1920, when the rate was 21%, have so many foreign-born individuals held jobs in the United States....   read more

If President Barack Obama wants to increase the number of college graduates in order to make the United States more competitive internationally, he will have to find ways to make financial assistance more available. A new study from the Bill & Mel...   read more

Root root root for the home team would be advisable for incumbent politicians facing a tight re-election battle. Voters, as they are wont to do, don’t always make their voting decisions entirely on the merits of a candidate’s record in office, and...   read more

To demonstrate President Barack Obama’s commitment to making the U.S. government more transparent and accessible to Americans, the White House has issued an Open Government directive which spells out how various federal agencies will make certain ...   read more

One out of every six Americans in recent years has been exposed to contaminated drinking water, according to an investigation by The New York Times. A review of government records found numerous water districts throughout the United States have fa...   read more

In the world of partisan politics, even bathroom breaks are exploited in order to seize power. That’s what happened in North Carolina on Monday when Republicans on the Wake County Board of Commissioners took advantage of Democrat Betty Lou Ward’s ...   read more

Ending one of the longest and most complicated lawsuits ever brought against the U.S. government, attorneys representing American Indians have won a $3.4 billion settlement from the Department of the Interior. The suit was brought because of alleg...   read more

Police in Brazil’s two largest cities, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, have functioned as judge, jury and executioner in recent years by summarily executing suspects and then covering up the killings with false reports. According to a new report b...   read more

Taxi drivers can be a source of valuable information, from how to get to an important meeting on time to where to stay when in town. But relying on them for military intelligence that helped start the decade’s most controversial war?   According...   read more

Between uncertainty over what to change and an unwillingness to impose serious reforms, Congress is expected to leave the credit ratings industry largely untouched, even though its role in the economic collapse was paramount. At the heart of the p...   read more

On June 10, 2006, three Saudi prisoners at Guantánamo Bay were found hanging in their separate cells—hands and feet tied, gags in their mouths—but the U.S. military ruled the deaths a well-coordinated group suicide intended to make the United Stat...   read more

Estimates of the number of cars in the United States today vary from 140 million to 250 million. But in order for the U.S. to spew as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as it does from coal-burning power plants, the nation would have to run n...   read more

On May 1, 2009, Adam E. Namm took over as acting director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), a State Department agency responsible for the buildings that house America’s overseas embassies, consulates and missions, including mor...   read more