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

“Derivatives” is just another word for gambling, as far as U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is concerned, so she wants anti-gambling laws applied to Wall Street in an effort to end the era of “casino capitalism.” In the wake of last year’s finan...   read more

Two of the nation’s most respected newspapers have expressed through their editorial pages a diametrical position from that of the general public on the Afghanistan war, according to an analysis by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). A majo...   read more

Mike McTimoney has the distinction of becoming the first Tweeter-in-residence in the United Kingdom, following his hiring by the town of Darlington in County Durham in the northeast of England. McTimoney, an IT lecturer at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Fo...   read more

School officials in Addyston, Ohio, are suing a foreign-owned plastics company over cancer-causing air pollution from a local factory that forced the closure of an elementary school four years ago. Meredith Hitchens Elementary was shuttered in 200...   read more

Millions of secret government documents are scheduled to be declassified at the end of this year—unless President Barack Obama extends the deadline like his predecessors have done. Reports out of Washington indicate the White House is hurriedly pr...   read more

There’s no denying the importance of coal to the nation’s energy supply, providing nearly half of the electricity used by Americans. But a group of medical researchers has decided to make clear the price that the human body pays for the U.S. relyi...   read more

Alexander Stern of Los Angeles can’t play Sony’s role-playing video games like EverQuest because of his disabilities, so he’s suing the company under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Due to problems with his eyesight and “multiple learning dis...   read more

While the Maldives chose to go down (underwater) to draw attention to the dangers of global warming, Nepal has selected to go up—way up. This week, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will lead his senior ministers up Mount Everest to conduct the hi...   read more

The National Park Service could soon enjoy a new revenue stream thanks to an unlikely source: bacteria. For years now scientists have been “bioprospecting” in national parks, looking for new sources of medicine or scientific capability and coming ...   read more

Confirmed on August 6, 2009, President Obama’s Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a twenty-five year veteran of the agency who was put forward for the position by Democratic Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the powerful Senate Majorit...   read more

Heir to the Oreck vacuum-cleaning fortune, Bruce Oreck was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Finland August 12, 2009. His experiences have run the gamut from tax attorney to body building to major player in Democratic Party politics. Having contribut...   read more

While President Barack Obama prepares to announce his decision regarding a troop increase for Afghanistan, Senate Democrats have released a report that argues that the Bush administration failed to capture Osama bin Laden when it had the chance in...   read more

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and other health industry companies were responsible for the biggest fraud settlements obtained last year by the Department of Justice. Companies like Cephalon Inc. and Merck & Co. paid more than $1 billion combined fo...   read more

While hoping for a future of cooperation with other nations, the U.S. Navy is simultaneously planning for potential combat situations that may arise once global warming has melted the Arctic Ocean’s summer ice within two decades. A 35-page memo fr...   read more

Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars loaned by the federal government to the nation’s largest banks, the financial industry continues to be stingy with loans itself, creating a big drag on economic recovery. Lending fell by 3% ($210.4 billi...   read more

If enduring superstitions, discrimination and a high risk of skin cancer weren’t enough, albinos living in Africa have to worry about being killed for their body parts. Murders of albinos in East Africa have been on the rise since 2007, with 44 ki...   read more