Trump announced that from now on the NFL will be known as the NTL: The National Trump League. The Super Bowl will be renamed the Trump Bowl, and professional players must be called Trumpball Players. Anyone, on any level, who refuses to comply with Trump’s orders will be arrested and charged with being a threat to national security.   read more

App developer Josh Begley received an email this week from Apple saying that “We found that your app contains content that many audiences would find objectionable.” Before that, the company rejected the app on grounds of it being “not useful.”   read more

The focus of the audit was the Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) program, which was established in 1996 to provide individuals ineligible for Social Security numbers, in particular resident aliens, with ID numbers for tax purposes. Nearly three million tax returns were filed in 2011 using ITINs, involving tax refunds totaling $6.8 billion, most of it as a result of applying the Additional Child Tax Credit.   read more

The 7/20 Recovery Committee charged with distributing the donations does not include any victims or their families. 7/20 Committee spokesman Rich Audsley said, “This committee will not be having the victims decide how the dollars are allocated. It will be done by the committee with input by victims.”   read more

An Arizona-based trucking company specializing in explosives hauling has been ordered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to reinstate a whistleblower fired for refusing to travel with a co-driver who smoked.   read more

Following the 2010 census, Texas received four additional congressional districts as a result of the state’s population growing by more than four million people. Latinos accounted for 65% of the increase, blacks 13.4% and Asian-Americans 10.1%. Latino make up 38% of Texas’ population, but only 25% of registered voters.   read more

The environmental group says the new goal of 54.5 mpg by 2025 will more likely be reduced to 47 mpg once certain credits, such as those for air-conditioning units, and “flexibilities” are factored in. Not including electric cars, the current commonly available car with the best fuel efficiency rating is the Toyota Prius at 42 mpg.   read more

CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf was quoted as saying it made “sense to get behind the winning horse...Mark and Kathryn’s movie is going to be the first and the biggest. It’s got the most money behind it, and two Oscar winners on board.”   read more

AIDS activists were outraged once they heard how much Gilead intends to charge for the new drug. Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, called the pricing “shockingly irresponsible….It’s just unsustainable at these levels,” he told The New York Times. Industry analysts project Gilead could earn $2.5 billion from sales of Stribild by 2015.   read more

In a particularly bizarre twist of words, Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob Moore told Blomquist that company managers “communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend.”   read more

Instead of government scientists testing new flavorings or preservatives, manufacturers’ own labs or those they contract with perform the assessments. This system has resulted in “the vast majority of new ingredients added to U.S. food” over the last 15 years never receiving a safety determination from the government,” according to the Chicago Tribune.   read more

Most of the decrease is likely due to global warming, itself the consequence of pollution and the cutting down of forests, according to scientists. NASA’s researchers attribute this year’s unusually large loss to Arctic ice not to warm weather this year, but to increased temperatures in previous years that broke down thicker ice cover.   read more

Congress has adopted more than 330 laws that grant the use of administrative subpoena power to dozens of federal offices. This has resulted in agencies issuing hundreds of thousands of these subpoenas every year, without having to officially report just how many of them are being served.   read more

Some banned items came as no surprise: guns, knives, explosives. But so were baseballs, fresh whole fruit, bottled water, flashlights and disposable coffee cups. Footballs, however, are fair game to be tossed around on the convention floor.   read more

Andrea, a former entertainment lawyer, then met physician Todd Katzman, whom she agreed to marry. The two registered for gifts at Bloomingdale’s and participated in a ceremony in Palm Springs on May 2, 2009, after which Andrea told her children she considered herself married to Katzman. She and Katzman even signed a Jewish marriage contract known as a ketubah.   read more

The $66.3 billion in 2011 represented more than 77% of all international arms sales, which totaled $85.3 billion. Russia was the second leading dealer in military goods, selling only $4.8 billion. The enormous U.S. haul was driven largely by deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.   read more

This statistical fact would be just another example of income inequality in America were it not for the fact that U.S. taxpayers are paying for defense contracts, and the CEOs’ salaries are factored into the tab for the contracts which, in some cases, are awarded without competition.   read more