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

Patrick Donahoe assumed the office of Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service (USPS) on December 3, 2010. He oversees an agency that has about 580,000 employees in more than 33,000 facilities, delivering nearly half the world’s ma...   read more

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona), was shot through the head on Saturday, January 8. Back on March 22, 2010, just hours after Giffords voted to pass the health reform bill, the glass door of her office in Tucson was smashed  The following evenin...   read more

Pete Sessions of Texas and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania did not get off to a smooth start at the beginning of the 112th Congress. The Republican lawmakers skipped the official swearing in of all members on the House floor because they were a...   read more

As the deadline approaches for pulling out troops, the United States and its European allies are preparing to spend more money than ever on improving Afghanistan’s police and military, in the hopes they can take over the country’s security. The ...   read more

Despite a substantial drop in tax revenues during 2009, state governments managed to increase spending modestly, perhaps in part because the federal government gave out more in grants that year.   The U.S. Census Bureau reports that state reve...   read more

Thirteen years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, Las Vegas firefighter Robin Lawson is finally set to receive workers’ compensation coverage for her condition, after the state Supreme Court agreed she became ill as a result of he...   read more

President Barack Obama nominated career diplomat Bisa Williams to be U.S. ambassador to the African nation of Niger on November 30, 2009, but she was not confirmed by the Senate until August 6, 2010.   Williams was born in Trenton, New Jersey....   read more

There was no shortage of blame to go around, according to a presidential panel charged with investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling criticized everyone from ...   read more

Tim Griffin is back in Washington, DC, and in a twist of political irony, will help investigate those who try to make a mockery of federal laws, or government prosecutors. Kind of like what Griffin did a few years ago.   Griffin was once a Kar...   read more

Just as they did in 1995 after seizing control of the U.S. House, Republicans have stripped the limited voting power of representatives from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas. T...   read more

It took the state of Texas 30 years to figure out that Cornelius Dupree Jr. never belonged in prison for aggravated robbery. After DNA testing proved Dupree was not the culprit of a 1979 attack rape and robbery attack on a 26-year-old woman, the...   read more

The witches of Romania, a nation where people take their superstitions seriously, are ticked off at the government for making them pay taxes. And they intend to do something about it.   Under a new law, witches will now have to pay 16% income ...   read more

In keeping with the holiday spirit, Representative Darrell Issa (R-California), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, asked corporations last month to send him their wish list of government regulations they’d l...   read more

The State Department under President George W. Bush aggressively promoted genetically modified (GM) foods overseas, and discussed threats of economic retaliation against European countries that banned the importation of such crops.   Cables re...   read more

Waste Control Specialists has won the right to import low-level nuclear waste from around the country into Texas, marking a victory for billionaire Harold Simmons.   Simmons has been the second biggest individual donor to Texas Governor Rick P...   read more

Perhaps no other group in the United States has suffered more from the Great Recession than Native Americans. Over a three-year period, the American Indian unemployment rate nearly doubled, from 7.7% to 15.2%. In the same period, the unemploymen...   read more