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

Researchers at Keele University in England have concluded that the use of expletives may be beneficial when experiencing physical pain. Psychologists had student volunteers submerge their hands into icy water, and those who swore felt less pain an...   read more

For the second year in a row the city of Los Angeles is funding a special program to remove the urban shadows that have allowed street gangs to rule the night across South Central. “Summer Night Lights” keeps 16 parks across crime-ridden neighborh...   read more

President Obama’s choice to be in charge of the American Battle Monuments Commission is a grievously wounded Vietnam veteran, twice decorated for bravery. Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland, who lost his Senate seat in an ugly and controversial re-el...   read more

Normally, if a U.S. president objects to a law passed by Congress, he vetoes it. But there is another mechanism that presidents claim allows them to ignore a certain section of a law if the president says he considers it unconstitutional or that i...   read more

Recent statistics showing an uptick in the housing market are skewed by the fact that almost half of all homes sales in April were resells of foreclosures, in large part because traditional sales have been dulled by what some call “idiotic” standa...   read more

The FBI is now investigating the mysterious death of Henry Glover of New Orleans, who died on September 2, 2005, during the flooding of the city by Hurricane Katrina. According to resident Will Tanner, he found Glover, an African American, with a ...   read more

Tourists from the United States have managed to expand the definition of “ugly American” in the latest Expedia survey ranking the worst travelers around the world. American tourists took top honors for being loudest, sloppiest, biggest complainers...   read more

If we step back and really look at the condition of state government in the country, we see a mass of political failure, argues syndicated columnist Neal Peirce. Ten states ended their fiscal years still trying to resolve billion-dollar deficits, ...   read more

Instead of telling his Cabinet to make minor reductions in their budgets, President Barack Obama might want to ask the IRS to start collecting more than $1 billion in back taxes that the agency has forgotten about. A new report from the Treasury I...   read more

Imagine if Alaska, the largest state in the union, completely disappeared from the earth. That’s roughly what happened to an enormous amount of ice in the Arctic over just four years, NASA scientists concluded, after conducting the first comprehen...   read more

For Umar Abdulayev the only thing worse than spending seven years at Guantánamo Bay is going home to Tajikistan, which is why the detainee prefers to stay behind bars. The Bush and Obama administrations accused Abdulayev of having connections with...   read more

It would appear that the Republican Party has alienated yet another group of voters: scientists. A recent survey conducted by The Pew Research Center for People & the Press found only 6% of more than 2,500 scientists polled identified themselves a...   read more

It’s a wonder there’s anything left at all of historic Babylon, after more than a century of ruinous encroachment on the ancient city’s remains by Europeans, Iraqis, and American soldiers and contractors.   The center of the Babylonian Dynasty, ...   read more

Amid accusations that the CIA has repeatedly lied to Congress since 2001, President Barack Obama is threatening to veto legislation that would force the White House to disclose to Congress internal documents pertaining to covert operations. The bi...   read more

Using his own experience as an Army veteran, Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) is taking up the charge to revoke the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, arguing that soldiers don’t care whether someone is gay or straight as long as everyone sticks tog...   read more

According to the Department of Defense, Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil needs to be watched because he is a potential terrorist threat, even after being released from his six-year stint at Guantánamo Bay. But high-level officials in Afghanistan disagree...   read more