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

Piracy in Somalia is a booming business that is getting more violent and deadly. With the world economy in crisis and their anarchic nation topping an annual list of failed states for the fifth straight year, Somali pirates in 2011 took in an es...   read more

A new ethics watchdog for federal employees is on the way. Walter M. Shaub, Jr., was nominated by President Obama on May 24 to serve a five-year term as Director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), succeeding Robert I. Cusick, Jr., whose t...   read more

Workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel in downtown Chicago went on strike in 2003 to protest low wages and benefits being offered by management.   The members of Unite Here Local 1 are still on strike, although most of the employees who walked ou...   read more

Erika Bonilla is suing the U.S. Department of Justice because she was discriminated against … for being too attractive.   Formerly an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bonilla moonlighted as a professi...   read more

A federal judge has invalidated a lawsuit by victims of U.S. experiments involving venereal disease in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s.   For at least eight years, the U.S. Public Health Service experimented on Guatemalans without their k...   read more

The Department of Defense agency that provides global information and technology assistance through online services for the military has a leader who stepped into controversy almost from the very beginning of his tenure. Lieutenant General Ronni...   read more

President Barack Obama on Wednesday blocked the release of documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun controversy, setting up a showdown with House Republicans who may vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.   Republicans h...   read more

Seven newly released intelligence documents have revealed that the Bush administration ignored multiple warnings prior to September 11, 2001, about planned attacks by Osama bin Laden.   The declassified, but heavily censored, documents, obtain...   read more

Facing a potentially costly class-action lawsuit, the National Football League stands accused of hiding the dangers of head injuries and long-term health problems associated with them.   More than 2,000 former players are giving up their indiv...   read more

Many of the nation’s largest pizza chains are fighting Washington over a proposed requirement to disclose how many calories are in the food they sell.   Banding together as the recently formed American Pizza Community, companies including Domi...   read more

Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana is suing the Department of Defense to stop it from moving a wing of fighter jets—and the hundreds of jobs associated with it—to another state.   As part of a restructuring effort, the U.S. Air Force wants t...   read more

Facing political pressure from both left and right, President Barack Obama announced last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer deport persons simply because they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Speci...   read more

Despite economic and financial problems of their own, European nations have continued to expand renewable energy sources. The United States, meanwhile, has not progressed in terms of what it gets from solar, wind and other non-fossil fuel source...   read more

Drug dealers are successfully using Florida’s controversial stand-your-ground law to get away with murder.   The law, which has gained national attention since the Trayvon Martin shooting, was intended to help citizens avoid punishment when de...   read more

Six years after Congress authorized a new incentive program for tax whistleblowers, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has paid less than a handful of awards to those exposing tax cheats. The result has been demoralizing for whistleblowers, acco...   read more

A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that the University of Cincinnati’s anti-protest policy constitutes a violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech and must be amended.   The university’s chapter of the Ron Paul-inspired Young Amer...   read more