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

Dutch author Arthur Japin was conducting research for his next novel when he made a startling discovery at Leiden University Medical Centre: the nearly 200-year-old head of an African king. Badu Bonsu II was once chief of the Ahanta, a tribe livin...   read more

While spending months fighting post-election legal battles to claim his U.S. Senate seat, Al Franken had plenty of time to work on his legislative agenda. So once Franken was cleared to become the junior senator from Minnesota, he wasted little ti...   read more

With a long career in public health, Thomas R. Frieden’s credits include spearheading successful programs to curb tuberculosis in New York City and India. President Barack Obama’s choice to take over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...   read more

The past week was a good one for the FBI, as agents captured two men on the bureau’s famed “10 Most Wanted” list. First, there was gang member Emigdio Preciado, Jr. (aka “Junior,” “Trigger,” “Spooky,” and “Snyper,”), who was apprehended in Mexico ...   read more

According to data compiled by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Bank of America isn’t quite the friend of small business it claims to be. The overwhelming majority of loans made through the Small Business Administration are called ...   read more

Take humans out of nature, squeeze them into cramped, urban environments, and violence and bad behavior go up. Apparently, it’s the same for monkeys in India, who increasingly have turned aggressive and destructive as deforestation in Punjab has f...   read more

Faster than a speeding bullet, the new super traders of Wall Street are today utilizing powerful computers and advanced mathematics to buy, sell and even manipulate stock markets like never before. “High-frequency” trading uses advanced algorithms...   read more

Hussam Mohammed Amin has been described as having the most impossible job in Iraq before the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The major general was responsible for overseeing the compilation of a massive volume of data showing that Iraq had no weapons...   read more

President Barack Obama’s stated goal to make government more open has not extended to requests by United Nations officials to visit the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay or learn more about secret prisons once operated by the CIA. Last month, S...   read more

Military families outpaced the rest of the country in using food stamps last year by a considerable margin, according to the Department of Defense. From 2007 to 2008, the use of food stamps by military personnel and their dependants increased 25%,...   read more

Officials at the Department of Energy might want to review their mission statement. One of their primary tasks is to be a leader in the efficient use of energy while operating offices and laboratories across the country. But much of the agency has...   read more

Scott Janke’s career as a city official has ranged from rubbing elbows with Sarah Palin in Alaska to getting fired recently in Florida for being married to a porn star. Janke’s last job was as city manager for the small, conservative town of Fort ...   read more

Proper storage of deadly nerve gas agents at military facilities requires the use of monitoring devices to ensure the protection of base personnel and local communities from possible leaks. But the operators of the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentuck...   read more

Despite President Barack Obama’s denunciations of last month’s coup in Honduras and promises to cut ties with its military, the U.S. government is still training Honduran officers at the controversial Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Coop...   read more

Not only were interrogators from China allowed to question Uighur prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, but U.S. military personnel helped out in the process, according to testimony provided at a congressional hearing last week.   Three Uighurs who ...   read more

The national obsession with “Three Strikes” laws and other mandatory sentencing rules that began decades ago has produced today a record number of prisoners serving life sentences. This comes at a time when government budgets are squeezed more tha...   read more