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

After refusing to pay the bill for decades of pollution from its factories, the 3M Corporation is being sued by the state of Minnesota for discharging perfluorochemicals (PFCs) into the Mississippi River.   The lawsuit was filed after months o...   read more

In a town where lobbyists regularly take on ignominious clients, Lanny J. Davis stands out in Washington, DC. Davis, the attorney who helped defend President Bill Clinton from impeachment, finds himself in the spotlight these days, as the media,...   read more

With more than a million Americans out of work for two years or longer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has decided to expand the length of time someone can be defined as long-term unemployed.   Currently, the BLS asks if an individual ha...   read more

Michael C. Polt was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Estonia on November 30, 2009.   Born in Austria, Polt immigrated to the United States when he was 15 years old and settled with his family in Tennessee. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Am...   read more

A member of the Senior Foreign Service, Michele Thoren Bond has served as ambassador to the small southern African nation of Lesotho since September 14, 2010.    A graduate of Wellesley College, Bond has a master’s degree in foreign service fr...   read more

Shortly after the his 2009 inauguration, President Barack Obama and his administration turned to two leading Republican politicians to help key subordinates of President George W. Bush who faced criminal prosecution in Spain for orchestrating th...   read more

America’s long-anticipated withdrawal from Iraq was small news in 2010, as far as the readers of the Jerusalem Post were concerned. The pullout of U.S. soldiers received only 15% of the vote for story of the year, putting it a distant second to ...   read more

The last two decades witnessed the continued disappearance of small- and medium-sized farms, thanks to the ever-expanding presence of corporate-owned “factory” farms, according to Food and Water Watch.   In a new report, the agricultural watch...   read more

After 33 years in the Foreign Service, Karen B. Stewart received her second appointment to be an ambassador when President Barack Obama selected her for the top U.S. diplomatic post in Laos. She was sworn in on October 25, 2010. She previously s...   read more

Mark M. Boulware was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Chad on September 29, 2010.   Boulware was born in 1948 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1956, he and his family, parents Everett and Alice, and three siblings, moved to Iowa P...   read more

Polish lawyers representing detainee Abu Zubaydah have been unsuccessful in getting help from the Department of Justice under President Barack Obama to confirm that the CIA held their client at a secret prison in northern Poland eight years ago....   read more

Beware of history textbooks published by Five Ponds Press, which is based in Connecticut, but provides most of its textbooks to the Virginia Department of Education. Two of the company’s books, Our Virginia: Past and Present and Our America: To ...   read more

In a town where almost 40% of the police force has been accused of racial profiling, Hispanic residents have given up on East Haven, Connecticut, and are moving out.   Both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division are...   read more

Eight homeless young people died in New Orleans this week when the abandoned warehouse they were squatting in went up in flames and they were overcome by carbon monoxide. The five men and three women, ranging in age from their teens to early 20s...   read more

Humanitarian and civil rights organizations are protesting the U.S. government’s decision to resume deportations to Haiti, which was ravaged by an earthquake in January.   Advocates are upset over the move by the Immigration and Customs Enforc...   read more

BP is facing a $10 billion class action lawsuit filed by those living near its Texas City oil refinery, which has been the site of explosions, pollution leaks and numerous fatalities in recent years.   The plaintiffs characterize BP as “a know...   read more