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

It is no coincidence that as the number of overweight Americans has gone up, so too has the nation’s costs for health care, according to researchers. While experts do not solely blame rising obesity rates for skyrocketing medical expenses, the gro...   read more

Next time your airline cancels a flight and leaves you stewing at the airport, just think of James Hunter and you might not feel so bad about your predicament. Hunter, an airport security specialist employed by Global Strategies Group, was sent ...   read more

It’s bad enough when immigration officials mistakenly jail American citizens because of assumptions stemming from racial profiling, but it’s worse if they insist on keeping them detained even after they have presented a slew of evidence proving th...   read more

Douglas Elmendorf is arguably the most important nomination that President Barack Obama has no say over. Chosen by the leaders of the House and Senate, the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) holds considerable sway on Capitol Hill b...   read more

It is time for agricultural biotech companies that produce genetically-modified (GM) seeds to end their restrictions on independent research, write the editors of Scientific American, one of the nation’s leading science journals. They point out th...   read more

On April 8, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he was appointing H. Marshall Jarrett, since 1998 the Chief Counsel and Director of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), the new Director of the Office...   read more

While members of Congress dicker about overhauling the nation’s health care system, a majority of Americans are in favor of solutions their representatives are not even considering. These include single-payer and government-run models, as well as ...   read more

Since returning home from the war in Iraq, numerous soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Carson, Colorado, have been accused of a laundry list of crimes, including multiple counts of murder. A...   read more

Continuing to argue that former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with prosecutors in the Valerie Plame leak case should not be publicized, the Obama administration pleaded with a federal judge last week to keep the transcript locked away for...   read more

Film festivals in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco have provoked fierce opposition from China and Israel over the screenings of documentaries about an exiled Uighur leader and a young American killed while trying to defend a Palestinian hom...   read more

Accustomed to adrenaline rushing through their veins while driving at high speeds to avoid being attacked, returning war veterans are having a tough time driving “normal” once they get back to the United States. The urge to drive recklessly is so ...   read more

South African officials can take solace in knowing the new U.S. ambassador to their country at least has a direct line to President Barack Obama. For what Donald H. Gips lacks in experience as a diplomat or involvement in South African affairs is ...   read more

If Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius ever longs for her days back in Kansas, she can always wander down the hall and visit with her old pal, Kathy J. Greenlee. The new head of the Administration on Aging is a longtime aide o...   read more

A new food study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals there are approximately nine million Americans who lack sufficient food to eat., It is estimated (based on a 2001 survey) that 3.1% of the U.S. population “sometimes or often did not h...   read more

The Bush administration’s refusal to acknowledge the danger of global warming included withholding from the public startling satellite images of disappearing ice packs off the coast of Alaska. The photos taken several years ago by orbiting satelli...   read more

Congressman Larry Kissell’s (D-NC) latest “Buy America” tactic has provoked anger from representatives of the European Union over a one-line amendment that requires the federal government to buy automobiles only from the Big Three car manufacturer...   read more