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

For first time in its history, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rescinded a clean water permit for a coal mining operation, a move that is likely to provoke backlash from the industry.   The decision in effect kills the Spruc...   read more

The Department of Defense is on the hook for paying more than $1 billion just to feed the U.S. Marine Corps, now that a contract with a France-based company has swelled with added costs.   What was supposed to cost $881 million is now looking ...   read more

With the war in Afghanistan spilling over into Pakistan, where the CIA has launched numerous drone attacks on insurgents, the Obama administration selected Cameron Munter, a veteran diplomat with experience in Iraq, to run the U.S. embassy in Is...   read more

Asif Chaudhry has been the U.S. ambassador to Moldova, a small country in southeast Europe sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, since July 11, 2008. Moldova, which declared its independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, has seen a suc...   read more

For the past seven years, federal law has severely limited the tracing of gun sales by merchants, keeping researchers and the public in the dark over unscrupulous stores that sell to criminals. President Barack Obama vowed during the 2008 campai...   read more

Perhaps Americans can learn something from their northern neighbor regarding home finance and staving off mortgage disasters.   While the U.S. has struggled with its crippled housing market since 2008, Canada is doing just fine. Not a single C...   read more

Celebrity Courtney Love has gone too far this time, says fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir (a.k.a. Dawn Younger-Smith). The singer/provocateur is being sued for insulting remarks she posted via Twitter about Simorangkir, who is owed $4,000 for c...   read more

What’s good for today could wreak bankruptcy tomorrow for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), says Republican Newt Gingrich about the plan regarding “Forever Stamps.”   U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue wants to go exclusively with forever sta...   read more

It has been nearly 47 years since Frank Morris, an African-American business owner in Ferriday, Louisiana, was killed when members of the Ku Klux Klan set fire to his shoe store in 1964. The identity of the culprits has remained unknown, but a l...   read more

It turns out that the great tax compromise hammered out between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans will not prevent taxes from going up for many Americans, mainly low-income earners.   An analysis of the tax bill by the Urban...   read more

It’s not so much a matter of what Lockheed Martin does for the U.S. government, but what it doesn’t do. The super-sized defense contractor does, to say the least, a lot of business with Uncle Sam, who has been very generous towards the company…a...   read more

Figuring out how many foreign military bases the United States is about as certain as guessing the correct number of marbles in a glass bowl.   Writer Nick Turse, who’s written on the subject of U.S. overseas bases, can’t even come up with a s...   read more

Having moved on from being fired during President George W. Bush’s first term in office, Teresa Chambers was pleasantly surprised to learn she can have her old job back as chief of the United States Park Police.   Chambers, the first woman and...   read more

Frustrated over the lack of fee collections that support its work, the Louisiana Public Defender Board has sued nearly two dozen judges in New Orleans.   The public defenders say 23 municipal judges have not been collecting a mandatory $35 fee...   read more

For the first time ever, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) plans to make public thousands of complaints it receives from Americans about harmful products. Consumer advocates have hailed the decision to create a Web-based database con...   read more

Only 3% percent of those serving in the U.S. military today consider themselves evangelical Christians. And yet the percentage of evangelical chaplains serving the religious needs of soldiers and officers is 33%, according to information from th...   read more