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

In need of cyber warriors equipped with the latest IT knowledge, the Department of Defense has started a pilot program that will send some of its employees to work in the private sector for brief periods.   The plan allows Pentagon IT speciali...   read more

John Boehner (pronounced “BAY-ner”), a staunchly pro-business conservative, has spent 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, rising to the top of the Republican Party leadership by making himself useful to those above him in the hierarch...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refused to reveal how it decides which government documents to turn over to the public—in essence concealing how it goes about concealing.   The government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibili...   read more

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has agreed to allow a white television news anchor fired for using the word “nigger” in a June 2007 newsroom meeting to proceed with his lawsuit against his former employer, WTXF Fox 29.   Tom Burlington claims ...   read more

Supreme Foodservice, provider of meals to U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan since 2005, has won another contract with the Department of Defense, after the company hired the Pentagon’s top logistics leader who oversaw its work.   Having hired retire...   read more

Ronald Herrick, 79, who became the first successful organ donor in medical history when he gave a kidney to his twin brother, Richard, died on December 27, 2010, while recovering from heart surgery.   The December 23, 1954, transplant surgery ...   read more

Serving as an American diplomat, Commerce official, even the president of the United States, sometimes requires being a salesman for Boeing.   Another revelation brought about by the WikiLeaks publication of classified State Department cables ...   read more

School board officials in Tucson are standing by their Mexican American Studies program in the face of a new law that seeks to ban all ethnic studies in public schools.   The new law, which took effect January 1, prohibits classes that “promote ...   read more

The Department of Defense’s health plan, Tricare, has so far refused to cover a special treatment for veterans who have suffered brain damage as a result of combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.   Cognitive rehabilitation therapy is viewed by many ne...   read more

The legal hurdles just keep cropping up for developers of solar energy farms in the Southern California desert.   California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to st...   read more

Waiting for “Superman”, a documentary currently angling for an Academy Award nomination, puts much of the blame for the poor state of education in the United States on bad teachers and on teacher unions. But it’s possible that teachers could be ...   read more

The new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives intends to give broad new powers to the chairman of the budget committee, authorizing him to craft large budget cuts or tax breaks without requiring a full vote by all House member...   read more

At the same time that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) made it easier for soldiers to file a post-traumatic stress disorder claim, the agency also made it more difficult to receive such a diagnosis, prompting veterans groups to sue the gove...   read more

The Obama administration is working on new guidelines for the public to follow in the event of a nuclear explosion, whether it comes from a missile attack or a terrorist “dirty bomb.” The biggest challenge for government officials is figuring ou...   read more

A lawsuit seeking to establish voting rights for U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico was rejected by a federal appeals court in Boston, citing the supremacy of the Constitution over international law.   Plaintiffs tried using The United Nations Inter...   read more

Ten years after it decriminalized all illegal drugs, Portugal has not descended into a narcotic hell, as some predicted when the government passed a groundbreaking law in 2000. Instead, the country has managed to shift resources away from prosecut...   read more