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 the Defense Department first submitted its budget request to fund American military propaganda campaigns, it asked Congress for $988 million. After the House chopped the budget in half, Pentagon officials begged lawmakers to reconsider—and ad...   read more

With local government budgets getting squeezed tighter and tighter, officials in Miami-Dade County, Florida, are considering whether to decriminalize minor offenses that often are dismissed by the courts. A total of 18 minor infractions are curren...   read more

A consumer advocate is suing Delta Air Lines for allegedly hacking computer information she was compiling to win passage of an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights in Congress. Kathleen Hanni, founder of Flyersrights.org, says the computer infiltratio...   read more

Despite the presence of a mixed-race president in the White House, Keith Bardwell believes interracial marriages are a bad idea because of how children from such unions can be mistreated by society. So the justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Paris...   read more

From a purely fiscal advantage, it’s not difficult to understand why some in Washington are calling for a shift in war policy in Afghanistan and placing the onus on the Afghan army instead of America’s sophisticated, and expensive, military. The D...   read more

President Barack Obama has said he wants to create a new consumer protection agency that will regulate the financial industry when it comes to credit cards, insurance and mortgages. But this new government body can only be created with help from C...   read more

The U.S. military has been banning media traveling with soldiers in eastern Afghanistan from taking photos or video of American soldiers killed in action. The change in policy was quietly implemented in early September following the controversial ...   read more

It was all so unnecessary, it turns out. Those wasted seconds, collectively adding up to hours and days, typing in the two forward slashes (“//”) as part of website addresses. That’s what Internet guru Tim Berners-Lee has to say now, looking back ...   read more

In the name of granting the defendants a fair trial, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina decided on Wednesday to close the pretrial hearings of five Blackwater guards involved in a Baghdad shooting in 2007 that left 14 Iraqis dead. Urbina said he w...   read more

After two terms of a Bush presidency that was reluctant, if not hostile, towards regulatory action, the Obama administration is unleashing a vigorous assault on businesses selling dangerous or illegal products and services.   At the Food and Dru...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to keep hidden photos of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan is moving closer to becoming law. Administration officials recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to postpone weighing in on the matter in the hope that...   read more

Approximately 200,000 Vietnam veterans may soon be able to receive disability benefits for illnesses stemming from their exposure 40 years ago to Agent Orange. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to propose this week new rules that add Parkin...   read more

Maxi Sopo apparently never learned one of the basic rules of being a criminal on the run: keep a low profile. The 26-year-old from Cameroon decided to brag on Facebook about what a great time he was having in Mexico while hiding out from U.S. auth...   read more

Having failed to get the justice he sought in China, expatriate Liu Bo Shan has sued the recently opened New York branch of his former Chinese employer to prove his claims of being tortured for exposing corruption. Shan, who now lives in Flushing,...   read more

Since President Barack Obama’s announcement in March that the United States would be sending additional soldiers to Afghanistan, the number repeatedly cited by administration officials has been 21,000. But in actuality the number heading overseas...   read more

Conducting the nation’s business on Capitol Hill involves more than just the members of Congress. Behind every senator and representative are staffers upon whom lawmakers rely heavily to make decisions on important issues, such health care reform....   read more