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

About an hour after midnight on May 28, police received word of a burglar alarm going off at 409 Havenwood Lane. Officers B.B. Hanlon and R.P. Hoeppner responded, but showed up at 404 Havenwood. The officers said poor lighting caused them to visit the wrong home. At 404 Havenwood, the officers encountered homeowner Jerry Waller, 72, who was holding a handgun “near the corner of the home,” according to the affidavit.   read more

It can vacuum up emails, phone calls, text messages from all over the country and the globe, and sift through mountains of metadata looking for signs of terrorists plots. But the National Security Agency (NSA) can’t conduct a common search of its own emails. Elliott was told by an NSA official that they couldn’t complete his request because their email system is too “antiquated and archaic” to perform bulk searches.   read more

About one quarter of the top 250 administration officials are 60 or older. In 2009, only 18% were 60 or older. Over on Capitol Hill, the experience level among House members has gone down. Currently, 46% of representatives are “junior members” (defined as those who have completed fewer than three terms in office).   read more

As of the second quarter of 2013, the Chamber has allocated $1,002,845,680 on lobbying over the past 15 years. No other lobbying force in Washington, DC, has spent a billion dollars to influence decision-making, or come even close to that amount. General Electric, the next highest spender, has spent only $294 million over the same period.   read more

But in Washington, DC, about 20% took a drink without paying. The least honest (after DC) were West Virginia (85% paid) and Texas and Kentucky (both 87%). The morality level in DC was so low that someone even stole a bicycle belonging to the Honest Tea’s founder.   read more

Americans under the age of 30 are particularly fed up with politics, and are significantly less likely than their parents to say participating in politics is a worthwhile expenditure of their time. Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University, told USA Today, added that among the students he teaches, he sees “a general sense that politics is for losers, for ne’er-do-wells, for the corrupt and for the under-motivated and greedy.”   read more

XTO Energy is accused of polluting groundwater with fracking waste from its natural gas well pad and storage facility in Hughesville, Lycoming County, according to the lawsuit. The U.S. Department of Justice claims XTO Energy allowed flowback fluid and wastewater byproduct to reach water supplies.   read more

Tim Reed of Health Action International added: “It underlines the fact that patient groups who are in the pay of the pharmaceutical industry will go into battle for them. There’s a hidden agenda here. The patient groups will say they think it’s a great idea to keep clinical trials data secret. Why would they do that? They would do that because they are fronts for the pharmaceutical industry.”   read more

At least 147 of the dead were civilians, including 94 children. The figures run contrary to what the U.S. government has said about the strikes. Officials in the Obama administration have insisted that no more than 50 to 60 ‘non-combatants’ have been killed in the Central Intelligence Agency missions during nine years of bombings.   read more

Naval commanders insisted the unexploded weapons—which weighed a total of 1.8 tons and included two unarmed laser-guided bombs and two inert practice bombs—were not a danger to the reef’s fragile ecosystem. But members of environmental organizations and the Australian government demanded answers about the incident, and for the U.S. to remove the bombs.   read more

Last year, Corey prosecuted Marissa Alexander, an African-American woman who fired a warning shot at her abusive husband. Alexander had never been arrested before the incident, but that didn’t stop Corey from going after the domestic abuse victim. Alexander was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison.   read more

Analyzing data from Florida, the Post found that “If the AMA time estimates are correct, then 41 percent of gastroenterologists, 23 percent of ophthalmologists and 17 percent of orthopedic surgeons were typically performing 12 hours or more of procedures in a day, which is longer than the typical outpatient surgery center is open.”   read more

By shuffling the aluminum around, it increases the storage time and thus the amount Goldman charges manufacturers that use the metal, such as for soda cans or beer cans. According to the Times report, since Goldman bought Metro in 2010, the average wait time for customers to have their purchases located and delivered has grown from six weeks to sixteen months.   read more

The researchers identified three other factors that contributed to economic mobility besides geography: “upward mobility tended to be higher in metropolitan areas where poor families were more dispersed among mixed-income neighborhoods;” income mobility was higher in areas with more two-parent households; and areas with better schools and more involvement in religious groups and community groups.   read more

When he signed the bill, Gov. Perry said the law “was designed...to protect the market share of the Big Tobacco manufacturers.” The plaintiffs agree, saying Big Tobacco’s lobbyists pushed lawmakers into adopting the legislation.   read more

Privacy advocates welcomed a rare win last week, as the New Jersey Supreme Court expanded privacy rights in the state, becoming the nation’s first state supreme court to rule that police must first obtain a search warrant if they want to track a suspect by tracing their cell phone signals, unless an emergency or other generally recognized exception to the warrant requirement applies.   read more