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

A ban on building roads in National Forests was disregarded by the Obama administration this week when Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack approved a plan to open up to logging a stretch of forest on Revillagigedo Island in Tongass National Forest i...   read more

Where are you when we need you, Steven McQueen? The star of the 1958 film, The Blob, knew what to do about that gelatinous, man-eating monster, but officials in Alaska are stumped over what exactly is floating off the state’s coast in the Chukchi ...   read more

Fulfilling his promise of appointing Republicans to his administration, President Obama has turned to Republican Congressman John M. McHugh to serve as Secretary of the Army. McHugh represents New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which includes...   read more

The U.S. Naval Academy reportedly graduated its first pregnant midshipman in May, even though school policy dictates women are not supposed to marry or begin families before completing their studies. Normally, pregnant midshipmen are allowed to ta...   read more

Older workers are at greater risk of being laid off because of their age in the current economic recession, the federal government and advocates warned this week at a congressional hearing. According to statistics from the Equal Employment Opportu...   read more

With a $26 billion deficit to fill, California needs to take advantage of something it does more than any other state—grow marijuana plants—according to Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. The San Francisco lawmaker has introduced AB 390, which wo...   read more

Heroin smugglers in Central Asia are saying “Thanks, America!” for the $37 million bridge built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2007. Intended to help expand trade between poverty-stricken Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the bridge across the P...   read more

Not satisfied with just one uranium mine in his corporate empire, billionaire and arms merchant James Neal Blue has now purchased an adjoining mine in Australia used to supply radioactive material for civilian nuclear reactors in the United States...   read more

A killer is on the loose in Sydney, Australia, prompting officials to hire two sharpshooters to protect a tiny colony of fairy penguins, the world’s smallest penguins. Nine of the birds were found mauled to death within a 10-day period, which repr...   read more

When mandatory helmet laws for motorcyclists were first adopted, advocates argued the requirement was a win-win for everyone—from riders to the health care system. Well, perhaps not. Researchers at Michigan State University have concluded that hel...   read more

The City of Angels is not where you want to be if you’re homeless, according to a new report by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless. The advocacy groups say cities across America are increa...   read more

Whether “Car Czar” Steven Rattner has stepped down because of a growing public corruption probe by New York’s attorney general or because his specialty is no longer needed, the job of finishing the Obama administration’s repair of the auto industr...   read more

Vowing to protect the “dignity and sacredness of human life,” Republican U.S. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas is sponsoring legislation that would ban the creation of genetically-spliced humans and animals. “Creating human-animal hybrids, which pe...   read more

Until President Barack Obama announced John V. Roos to be the next ambassador to Japan, the assumption among many in the U.S. and Japan was that this posting would go to Harvard professor Joseph Nye, a specialist in international affairs. Instead,...   read more

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has had a brief, if not unwelcome, existence in the White House. Created by Congress in 2004 at the behest of the 9/11 Commission, the board was supposed to oversee the federal government’s actions o...   read more

There’s no denying Americans favor small businesses over big corporations, radio host Michael Medved writes, even though he insists this love of the underdog makes little sense. Poll after poll clearly shows how people see virtue and trust in the ...   read more