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 list of goods coming out of Asia that were produced using forced labor is a long one, and is mostly the product of two countries: China and Burma. These two nations, which have received plenty of criticism for their human rights records, lea...   read more

While American soldiers are fighting and dying to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, U.S. tax dollars are winding up in the hands of the enemy as a result of relying on foreign contractors to help move supplies around the country.   A six-mont...   read more

Victims of the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans will not be receiving their $21 million settlement from local flood control districts because there would be no settlement to receive, ruled the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal...   read more

Akin to the financial industry’s “too big to fail” is the corporate world’s too-big-to-ban when it comes to contracts with the federal government.   Federal officials can talk all they want about barring companies from doing business with Wash...   read more

Save the Children, a non-profit advocacy group dedicated to children’s welfare, has been a leader in pushing taxes on soft drinks as a way to combat childhood obesity. But the organization has decided not to lobby for such taxes now that it is s...   read more

As the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Joseph A. Smith, Jr. will be tasked by President Barack Obama with overseeing the regulation of troubled housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were taken over by the g...   read more

Nigeria has agreed to drop corruption charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and other corporate executives accused of bribing the government to secure a profitable natural gas deal. In exchange for the case’s dismissal, Hallibur...   read more

Staying in business even after repeatedly selling weapons to criminals isn’t difficult for gun stores. An investigation by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel found dozens of stores across the country that avoided being shut down by federal regulator...   read more

The United States will no longer be the sole holdout on signing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, now that President Barack Obama has announced his decision to support the agreement.   Three years ago, Preside...   read more

A 30-year veteran of the State Department, Alejandro D. Wolff has returned to Chile as U.S. ambassador following his first tour to the South American country earlier in his career. He began his term on September 10, 2010.   Wolff is an alumnus...   read more

James F. Entwistle’s first chance to be a U.S. ambassador, after a career in the Foreign Service, has brought him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a nation with a long history of exploitation, violence and repression and no shortage ...   read more

Doctors Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen will enjoy a legal defense paid for by the U.S. government if they stand trial for creating the CIA’s torture program used during the Bush administration.   Mitchell and Jessen not only were paid $1,000 a ...   read more

Fed up with their living and working conditions, prisoners across the state of Georgia last week staged a six-day mass peaceful protest that transcended racial boundaries.   Black, Latino and white inmates at least six prisons, including Hays ...   read more

Was it a dying man’s last (literal) words, or just a little repartee? That’s the question surrounding the final remarks of veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke before he passed away last week from heart problems.   Holbrooke, the Obama administr...   read more

Christopher J. McMullen, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, has been a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to his overseas postings, having served in U.S. embassies in South America, Asia and Africa, where his latest stint as ambassador...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Daniel L. Shields III was nominated on November 15, 2010, to be the U.S. ambassador to Brunei.   Originally from Pennsylvania, Shields received his Bachelor of Science degree in international rela...   read more