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

Efforts to reduce the number of American troops in Iraq are being adjusted to handle a growing security problem in the northern part of the country where civil war between Arabs and Kurds is at risk of breaking out. U.S. ArmyGeneral Ray Odierno an...   read more

Figuring out which foreign governments or corporations are lobbying Congress, and how much they’re spending, has been difficult to do using data published by the Department of Justice. But now, thanks to the Sunlight Foundation and ProPublica, rec...   read more

President Barack Obama’s vision for creating “a better, freer world” apparently includes the continued use of renditions to capture fugitives in foreign countries wanted by federal authorities. Instead of working through normal diplomatic channels...   read more

Residents of the town of Fort Edward, in upstate New York, are wondering why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allowed its private contractor, General Electric, to dredge a portion of the Hudson River where historical remains were damaged, ...   read more

Environmental conservation efforts regarding privately owned land will be under the stewardship of a committed conservationist with more than thirty years of service in the field. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack named career conservationist D...   read more

Dr. Faranak Argani is going back to court to face charges of medical malpractice after the Montana Supreme Court ruled his first trial should not have continued after he assisted a juror who nearly fainted. During the trial, the attorney for plain...   read more

Outrage over compensation paid to financial executives and their advisers has reached the point where even judges with free-market philosophies are calling pay levels excessive and out of control, leading to speculation as to how the U.S. Supreme ...   read more

Judge Sharon Keller, dubbed “Sharon Killer” by death penalty opponents because of her rulings favoring capital punishment, went on trial Monday on charges stemming from her decision to close the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals before a death row i...   read more

The modern craze with zombie stories, first begun by George Romero’s seminal work Night of the Living Dead in 1968, has even gotten into the brains of academic researchers from Canada, who decided to use the undead for a mathematical modeling exer...   read more

It used to be the only “emergency” declared by the U.S. Forest Service involved cutting down trees to avoid a potential forest fire. Now, government foresters can claim a section of forest needs to be chopped down to avoid “imminent economic loss,...   read more

Citizens in Azerbaijan who voted in the Eurovision Song Contest (Europe’s version of American Idol, only much bigger and much older) for an act from Armenia found themselves being interrogated by Azerbaijan’s police for being disloyal. Approximate...   read more

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s determination to win re-election this week has included not only pushing a controversial law to appeal to Shia male voters, but also bringing back a former warlord accused of massacring thousands of Taliban for...   read more

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent arming, supplying and beefing up the U.S. military to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet the Obama administration feels the need to divert money from “lower-priority” operations to tempo...   read more

America’s currency has a coke problem. A sampling of U.S. paper money from across the country revealed 90% contained trace amounts of cocaine, presumably from users’ habit of rolling up greenbacks to snort the drug.   Researchers from the Univer...   read more

Christopher R. Hill, President Barack Obama’s choice for ambassador to Iraq, is a career diplomat who was Washington’s top nuclear negotiator with North Korea. He speaks three languages—Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian—but not Arabic, which i...   read more

While U.S. imports have almost doubled since the late 1990s, inspections by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) at America’s ports have declined, and quite steeply in recent years. In 1999, the CPSC gathered 1,348 product samples at port...   read more