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

From approximately 8,000 appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court hears about 80 cases a year. This is barely half of what the high court used to hear in the 1980s, when the average yearly workload was 150 cases. Yale’s law school recently conducted a conf...   read more

In the end, the federal government had virtually nothing substantial on Guantánamo detainee Fouad al Rabiah, prompting U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to call the evidence against him “surprisingly bare” while ordering his release. “If ...   read more

“Medicare-for-All,” touted by liberals who want a government-run solution, is not the answer to the nation’s health care crisis, argues physician Deane Waldman. First of all, the existing Medicare program, unlike Medicaid, was never intended to be...   read more

A Utah attorney conducting his own investigation of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing managed to get the FBI to release four different videotapes of the area around the former Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of the explosi...   read more

FBI agents combed the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans on Saturday looking for evidence related to the shooting of six individuals by local police only days following Hurricane Katrina. Two people were killed and another four wounded during the inci...   read more

In an effort to save money and become more efficient, the U.S. armed forces is embracing the idea of joint military bases for the first time, merging Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps personnel under a single command. In southern New Jersey, ...   read more

Who says the Republican “big tent” isn’t large enough to accommodate people of all stripes… and polytheistic persuasions. In the New York suburb of Queens, Republican leaders have rallied around lawyer Dan Halloran, a city council candidate and wo...   read more

Next week, Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada will be a free man. As the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq, Watada has waged legal battles for three years with the Army, which tried to court-martial him for insubordination and cond...   read more

Huge donations by Wall Street to Congress, the reemergence of segregated education in America, and the pirating of Somalia’s territorial waters by foreign businesses are just some of the top stories that have gone underreported by the media, accor...   read more

The warning signs were there, nearly 10 years before the housing crash, but officials at the Federal Reserve ignored them. In Chicago, where subprime mortgages were handed out to minority communities on the city’s south and west side, community gr...   read more

Deadly exposure to harmful chemicals and other fatal workplace conditions now represents the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the advocacy group PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility). This problem...   read more

When it’s not trying to get rid of golf courses, the government of President Hugo Chávez is going after popular American cartoon shows. Television stations in Venezuela have been told by government officials not to air episodes of Family Guy becau...   read more

A recent study funded by the Foundation for Child Development found that children of immigrants to the United States suffer from high levels of obesity. The study, which used data from the Department of Education, tracked 21,000 children from kind...   read more

There’s a reason why the United States doesn’t need health care reform—Americans don’t want it. According to conservative activist Janice Shaw Crouse, polls show that 90% of people in the United States are satisfied with their health care coverage...   read more

Treece, Kansas, may soon be no more. The tiny community near the Oklahoma border is so polluted with chat—mining waste filled with lead and zinc—that the Environmental Protection Agency wants to buy out those left in Treece and level it in an effo...   read more

While throwing out part of the lawsuit, a California judge recently ruled that Kobe Bryant’s former housekeeper can continue her case on grounds of “personal insult” to which Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, subjected Maria Jimenez. Orange County Superior ...   read more