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

Concerns over the reliability and loyalty of Pakistan’s government in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda are well established. But the compromised nature of Pakistan’s military and intelligence service has not stopped U.S. defense contra...   read more

Humans are responsible for about half of the recent melting of polar ice, according to scientists at the nation’s leading climate research center.   Using supercomputers and advanced climate models, scientists at the National Center for Atmosp...   read more

The Department of Defense’s inspector general is launching a series of audits aimed at examining all contracts issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since Regina Dugan became its director in June 2009. DARPA funds proje...   read more

Executives in charge of San Antonio’s public utility are in serious trouble after a local news station discovered that CPS Energy contributed several thousand dollars—provided by taxpayers—to the Republican Party.   The $5,000 contribution was...   read more

Stepping foot outside in Orlando, Florida—as well as many of the state’s other large cities—can be a life-threatening experience. The risk has nothing to do with pollution or extreme weather, but everything to do with automobiles.   On an aver...   read more

District of Columbia v. Heller was supposed to bring legal salvation to gun-rights advocates, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in June 2008, invalidated the District of Columbia’s strict gun-control law. Another 5-4 pro-gun ruling...   read more

Based on the large, and expensive, legal team he has assembled, Rupert Murdoch appears to be gearing up for a big legal fight, both in the United Kingdom and the U.S., over the phone-hacking scandal.   According to John Dean, writing in The Gu...   read more

House Republicans seem bent on biting the hands that feed them…and every other American.   Farmers, usually stalwart supporters of the GOP, are upset over a Republican bill that would require them to verify the immigration status of field work...   read more

Rather than allow residents to exercise their rights to free speech, operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area decided last week to shut down cell phone service to four stations where a protest was plann...   read more

Language specialists with the U.S. Army have decided the service needs to wean itself of some acronyms and jargon. A team of “terminologists” is working on redoing the Army’s Field Manual (FM 1-02), which currently is bloated with nearly 1,100 a...   read more

The Obama administration has vehemently denied a report out of the United Kingdom that nearly 170 children have been killed in Pakistan by American drone strikes over the past seven years.   The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism ...   read more

Millionaire and “Obamacare” basher Governor Rick Scott pays only $360 a year for his health insurance, by taking advantage of Florida’s low-cost program financed by taxpayers.   Scott, a former hospital chain executive who once ran Conservativ...   read more

David Turkheimer is suing his former employer, pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck & Co., because he was fired—either because he crashed his car while sleepwalking or he refused to do his boss’ biding and illegally market a drug.   According to ...   read more

Afraid of potential backlash from the public, supervisors at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) manipulated the performance evaluation process for employees in order to avoid awarding raises and bonuses that might be seen as excessive in light of th...   read more

The Acting Director of the Office of Indian Education since August 2010, Jenelle Leonard has more than 30 years of experience as an educator, including work as a public school teacher and administrator, a technology implementation and training c...   read more

Saddled with almost a quarter of a million foreclosed homes, the federal government is looking for ways to turn the empty properties into rental opportunities.   The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Developme...   read more