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

Federal judges in Washington, DC, have ruled over the last year that 28 detainees at Guantanamo Bay were being unlawfully held, and ordered their release. But, according to an investigation by ProPublica, 19 of these men are still at the detention...   read more

Frosted Mini-Wheats are not quite so nutritious after all, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which recently ruled that Kellogg Company, the world’s largest producer of cereal, had lied in its advertisements claiming the breakfast fo...   read more

Self-thinking military robots, not unlike the killing machines featured in the Terminator movies, are by no means the stuff of science fiction, warns Professor Noel Sharkey, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics at the University ...   read more

Thanks to the lean economic times, the U.S. government is hungry for cash, as tax receipts across the board have dropped the most in one year since the Great Depression. Overall, tax revenues are expected to be down 18% from 2008’s total, a declin...   read more

Later this year when it releases the 2008 American Community Survey, the Department of Commerce will do something it never has done before: Provide data on the number of same-sex marriages in the United States. This decision represents a reversal ...   read more

Heath, Ohio, has a population of about 9,000 residents, but managed to wrack up more than 10,000 traffic violations in a single month. This disparity helps to explain the widespread anger felt across the small town after city officials approved th...   read more

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Fox News to learn which banks were loaned money by the Federal Reserve during last year’s financial crisis was rejected last week by a federal judge in New York. But the effort to force the Fed to tur...   read more

A moderate Democrat and first-term governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland has served as the states’ co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission since January.   Born on August 4, 1941, in Lucasville, Ohio, Strickland was one of nine children. His ...   read more

A recent Gallup poll revealed that less than 30% of Americans believe members of Congress can relate to the current problems with health care, and it’s no wonder. When taking into account the wealth of options lawmakers have when it comes to medic...   read more

A growing trend in the sale of military goods versus civilian manufacturing has left some observers wondering if the United States is headed towards a military-based economy. Since the beginning of this decade, military durable goods have steadily...   read more

It’s getting to the point where being a Good Samaritan can be an occupational hazard. First, Troy Schafer of Round Rock, Texas, was fired for pursuing a purse snatcher fleeing his grocery store, and now, just days later, Jim Nicholson of Seattle, ...   read more

Former President Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea to negotiate the release of American reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were imprisoned by the North Korean dictatorship, which accused them of illegally crossing the border. While polit...   read more

Among the European countries receiving a new U.S. ambassador who raised substantial amounts of money for President Barack Obama, France got an entertainment industry executive, while Belgium and Denmark each got well-known Washington, DC, attorney...   read more

A judge in India last Friday ordered the arrest of Warren Anderson, former head of Union Carbide Corp., whose chemical plant in Bhopal released deadly gas killing at least 10,000 people in 1984. Another 50,000 were permanently disabled. Anderson w...   read more

S. Elizabeth (Liz) Birnbaum was sworn in as the Director of the Mineral's Management Service (MMS) on July 15, 2009. The Minerals Management Service is located within the US Department of the Interior, and manages the natural gas, oil and other mi...   read more

Suicide has become the biggest killer in the U.S. military, surpassing combat-related deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far in 2009 there have been 129 reported suicides by active duty soldiers and reservists, which is more than the number killed...   read more