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

The United States can’t reopen its last operating rare-earth-minerals mine fast enough, now that China has again cut its exports of the highly valuable minerals. After slashing exports in October by 70% over the previous year, the Asian giant deci...   read more

Rather than blame high-level officers for the outcome, the U.S. Army has concluded that the vagaries of warfare caused nine soldiers to die at the battle of Wanat in Afghanistan.   An earlier assessment of the battle faulted battalion and brig...   read more

In an unusual case, a wife has been given the go-ahead to sue her husband for damages relating to forced labor.   Russian immigrant Natalya Shuvalova paints an ugly picture of her American husband, Joe Cunningham, whom she met through eHarmony...   read more

President Barack Obama selected White House ethics lawyer Norman Eisen to be ambassador to the Czech Republic in June 2010, and his Senate confirmation hearing was held on August 5. However, Republican objections, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley of I...   read more

Call them what you want...lettermarks, phonemarks, “soft” earmarks, they all do the same thing: direct money to a state or congressional district at the behest of a senator or representative. But some Republicans have been thumping their chests ...   read more

Four billion dollars later and nearly 100 U.S. banks that got help from the federal government are in danger of collapsing. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was supposed to only help healthy financial institutions weather the crisis that u...   read more

When federal immigration officials don’t communicate with local law enforcement about illegal immigrants who have broken the law, it’s the accused who benefit.   An investigation by the Columbus Dispatch uncovered numerous examples where Immig...   read more

An appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against Home Depot, which is accused of not providing seats for employees despite having available space to do so. The litigation was brought by Devon Harris and Lawrence Winston, cas...   read more

The small Mexican town of Guadalupe, only two miles from the border with Texas, now has no police force after gunmen kidnapped the last remaining officer, Erika Gándara.   Guadalupe, caught in the middle of a drug war between two cartels, had ...   read more

Fifteen years ago, there were plenty of retiring generals and admirals who decided not to cash in their years of military experience for a high-paying position in the defense industry. In fact, less than 50% of retiring three- and four-star offi...   read more

Where the CIA and other U.S. agencies have failed overseas, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has succeeded in forging close ties, even with governments that mistrust or downright hate Washington. In the process of becoming an important ...   read more

Of the many things that went wrong on April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon, the explosion that destroyed the oil platform and killed 11 crew members boiled down two primary causes: insufficient training and poor maintenance.   An investigation by...   read more

Building new coal-fired or nuclear power plants is going to cost the nation more money next year, compared to what it took to construct them in 2010. But committing to more solar plants in 2011 will be less expensive than it was this year, accor...   read more

For a little more than half a million dollars in lobbying, U.S. banks and multinational corporations have won themselves a $9 billion tax break from Congress.   Slipped into the mammoth tax compromise bill passed before Christmas, the tax deal...   read more

Sometimes a policy or concept becomes popular because it acquires a catchy name. The Car Allowance Rebate System, for example, would not have captured the public’s imagination had it not become better known as “Cash for Clunkers.” Here are four co...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to restore a wilderness protection policy that was eliminated during George W. Bush’s first term in office.   The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will once again reassert its longstanding efforts to grant t...   read more