Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Clarksville decided to train several dozen of its teachers and staff to qualify as armed security rather than “tying our money up in [hiring] a guard 24/7,” according to Hopkins. The cost to the school district for Clarksville’s program is $50,000 for training and ammunition, and $1,100 per participant for the purchase of a handgun and holster. The training sessions involve role-playing scenarios, performed on the campus.   read more

The biggest mistakes were made by USDA's Risk Management Agency, which issues crop insurance. Between 2008 and 2012, the agency paid 3,434 policyholders a combined $22 million in subsidies one or two years after their death. Similar mistakes were made by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which paid out $10.6 million to 1,103 individuals one year or more after their death.   read more

Anyone can use wget to store downloaded files, and yet the government managed to convince the military court that Manning’s use of it amounted to computer fraud. Prosecutors argued that wget was not on the list of “approved” programs for use in the facility where Manning worked. They also claimed that using an unauthorized program to help store the secret documents amounted to a digital “trespass,” thus computer fraud.   read more

A city was placed on the list if 25% of its current population lives below what scientists project will be future high-tide levels. Among those taking this threat seriously is the Pentagon, which has plans in the works for relocation of its bases to avoid the expected calamity. One of those is the nation’s largest naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, whose installations on the waterfront are expected to find themselves submerged by the 2040s.   read more

Senior CIA officials, including then-CIA Director George Tenet, approved the operation even though Nasr wasn’t wanted in Egypt and wasn’t on the U.S. list of top al-Qaeda terrorists. Condoleezza Rice, then the White House national security adviser, also had misgivings about the case, especially what Italy would do if the CIA were caught, but she eventually agreed to it and recommended that President Bush approve the abduction.   read more

The word carcinoma should not apply to this condition and others, they argued, because too many patients become frightened by the diagnosis and have treatments that aren’t needed and do more harm than good, such as mastectomies. Many lesions detected during breast, prostate, thyroid, lung and other cancer screenings should not be called cancer at all, but should instead be reclassified as IDLE conditions, which stands for “indolent lesions of epithelial origin,” according to the panel.   read more

Out in California, home to the biggest solar market in the U.S., three major utilities want state officials to save them from a subsidy program that they claim could soon drain them of $1.4 billion annually. Advocates of renewable energy scoff at such statements, saying utility companies are exaggerating their losses. They also wonder why company profits should take precedent over the finances of individual American citizens.   read more

Colorado has experienced a huge surge this year in permits to carry concealed weapons, following the passage of gun control measures by the state legislature. The new laws include requiring universal background checks for gun sales, a 15-round limit on firearm magazines, and banning online-only concealed-carry certification training.   read more

Khuzami, who once referred to the concept of the revolving door as a “myth” that creates “unfounded cynicism about public institutions and public servants,” will be required to wait one year before he can represent Kirkland clients before the SEC.   read more

It used to be that American kids were potty trained (and out of diapers) by 18 months of age. This was the case in the 1950s. But by 2001 the average age of potty training rose to 35 months for girls and 39 months for boys. Some parents report that their children aren’t potty trained until they are three-, four- even five-years old. The longer kids stay in diapers, the more money companies like Procter & Gamble make off delayed potty training.   read more

In the past two years, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office has arrested at least 12 men for sodomy, otherwise known as homosexual sex. All of the defendants were approached by Sheriff’s deputies working undercover who asked the men if they wanted to have consensual sex. Louisiana’s anti-sodomy law, which is still on the books, was invalidated along with others like it when the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas back in 2003.   read more

Four out of five U.S. adults will struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives—products of growing income inequality and the outsourcing of American jobs, particularly in the manufacturing sector, since the 1970s.   read more

JLENS, manufactured by defense contractor Raytheon, is essentially a blimp 75 yards in length that carries sophisticated radar and lenses that can see 320 miles in any direction, while hovering about 10,000 feet above the earth.   read more

The Pentagon is refusing to release the names of the enemies the U.S. is currently fighting on the grounds that the information is classified. A Pentagon spokesman told the journalism website ProPublica that revealing the list could cause “serious damage to national security” by allowing listed organizations to use their inclusion to inflate their importance, “build credibility … [and] strengthen their ranks.”   read more

During a two-year period ending December 31, 2012, the 217 “no” voters received on average more than twice as much cash ($41,635) from the defense and intelligence industries than did the 205 “yes” voters ($18,765). The donations totaled $12.97 million. Of the top 10 recipients of defense dollars, only one House member—Rep. Jim Moran (D-Virginia)—voted to end the program   read more

Stung by a century of investigations and exposés into animal cruelty and unhygienic conditions at sites where animals are raised, slaughtered and chopped up for consumption, corporate interests have lobbied lawmakers in six states to pass “Ag-Gag” laws that make it a crime to take videos or photos at agro-industrial sites that reveal illegal or unethical practices toward livestock, or to apply for a job at a factory farm with the intent to conduct an undercover   read more