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

It looks like the debt ceiling battle in Washington, D.C., writ small.   Energized Republican legislators demanding budget cuts; a Democratic chief executive seeking a compromise that includes increased tax revenues. And an 11-day government ...   read more

Seeking to eliminate a repeat of last year’s vote-buying scandal, the United Kingdom has proposed reforms to the International Whaling Commission that would alter how nations fund the international body.   A British media investigation in 2010 u...   read more

Has Rupert Murdoch manifested his own Watergate scandal? Allegations have surfaced that in addition to celebrities and relatives of murder victims, political figures—including former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown—were targets of illegal data...   read more

Now that the party is over, the task of nation building begins for the new Republic of South Sudan, which officially gained independence over the weekend.   South Sudan’s first order of business: Securing its oil-based economy. Currently, 98% of...   read more

Things are not what they used to be along the U.S.-Mexico border, which has been characterized for generations as a place where illegal Mexicans sneak onto American soil in ever growing numbers to take advantage of economic opportunities.   Thes...   read more

Faced with billion-dollar budget deficits, the U.S. Postal Service is considering drastic reductions in the number of post offices nationwide. The impact of this decision could be punishing for African Americans, who rely on government jobs more t...   read more

Environmentalists are hoping Americans are ready to contribute to the cause of saving domestic species under attack from foreign invaders—by eating them.   Invasive species, those plants and creatures not native to the U.S., have been growing in...   read more

Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, sponsor of the nation’s most controversial anti-immigration law, has become the first legislator in his state’s history to face a recall election.   Pearce was the author of SB 1070, Arizona’s law requi...   read more

It doesn’t take a bean-counter to run a hospital. In fact, the better run a hospital is—from a patient standpoint—the more likely a doctor is in charge.   A study out of Germany, but focused on 300 top-ranked American medical facilities, says ...   read more

JPMorgan Chase has become the third major bank to settle charges of improperly gaining access to the local bond business of local governments.   The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, bank regulators and 25 state...   read more

The U.S. government has been hit with a double whammy in a new report showing job discrimination complaints—and retaliation for making said complaints—on the rise among federal employees and applicants.   According to the Equal Employment Oppo...   read more

Serge Mombouli has served as ambassador of the Republic of Congo to the United States since July 2001.   Born on July 22, 1959, in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, Mombouli grew up the son of a diplomat and Congolese statesman, in a family of ...   read more

Heroin, LSD, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, methaqualone and, still … marijuana.   For the third time in 40 years, the federal government denied a petition to reclassify the Class I drug marijuana because it “has a high potential for abuse, has ...   read more

To demonstrate her conservative bona fides with Iowa voters, Republican Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign a pledge by a religious right group, The Family Leader, that contains 14 points addressing everything from opp...   read more

Republican anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist famously once said he wanted to reduce government “to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” He made some headway in June.   While the private sector added a disa...   read more

Zhang Yesui was named China’s Ambassador to the United States in March 2010.   Zhang was born in Hubei Province in October 1953. He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1975, and attended the London School of Economics from 1975 ...   read more