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

School districts throughout California took on an additional $1 billion in debt this decade as a result of bond refinancing schemes encouraged by banks—and now deemed unconstitutional by Attorney General Jerry Brown. About 200 cash-strapped distri...   read more

If pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Wyeth are allowed to merge, the result will be higher drugs prices, lower quality, and the loss of thousands of jobs, according to a lawsuit seeking to halt the $68 billion merger. The challenge has been filed b...   read more

Monday’s publication of the CIA inspector general report on detainee interrogations was not the first time an edited version of the document had been released. In 2008, the Bush administration declassified a heavily redacted version of “Counterter...   read more

The Federal Reserve, which has long enjoyed a tight cloak of secrecy around its financial decision making, lost a key ruling in federal court on Monday that will require it to turn over documents detailing which banks received emergency loans duri...   read more

Reporters seeking to cover the war in Afghanistan may not get the chance to embed with U.S. military units if their previous coverage of the conflict is deemed too negative. The Pentagon is relying on the controversial public relations firm, The R...   read more

For the second year in a row, migrant children left to survive on their own in Greece have gone on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment on a Greek island where conditions have been described as “abominable” by one European human rights bo...   read more

Among the decisions left over from the Bush administration for President Barack Obama to decide upon is whether the federal government should pay a $1 billion settlement to the people of a tiny South Pacific island who were exposed to U.S. nuclear...   read more

If a health reform plan manages to become enacted, insurance companies and hospitals will by no means come out on the short end financially. An aggressive, well-orchestrated lobbying campaign by insurers, and a shrewd bit of bargaining by hospital...   read more

Five years after it was written, and 15 months after the Bush administration released a heavily redacted version, the Obama administration has published a less censored version of the report by the CIA’s inspector general that reviewed the early i...   read more

In preparation for the thousands of English-speaking visitors expected to attend next year’s World Expo fair, the city of Shanghai is working on correcting its many lost-in-translation signs found in restaurants and public places. The plan is to e...   read more

While it might seem counterintuitive, a great way to stimulate the economy would be to encourage older Americans to leave the employment sector by lowering the retirement age to 55, argues progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann. For the plan to ...   read more

Experts on Wall Street have come up with a plan for moving the billions of dollars in mortgages that are still clogging the financial system and keeping banks from offering new loans: Take some bad loans, package them with some good ones, and sell...   read more

Kathleen Martinez’s nomination as the Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy came the day after President Barack Obama joked with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show about how his poor bowling score compared with those...   read more

At a time when many people are contemplating human rights abuses committed by Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, William Calley, more than 40 years after he led one of the most notorious attacks in U.S. military history, publicly apologized for th...   read more

After months of closely following the public debate over health care reform, a trio of reporters from Congressional Quarterly decided to expose the half truths and outright lies promulgated by both Democrats and Republicans and their support group...   read more

Energy trader Andrew J. Hall is set to receive $98 million from CitiGroup for his work buying and selling oil shares on behalf of the bank. The fact that CitiGroup is preparing to pay this bonus is politically volatile for the Obama administration...   read more