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

Nine months after the worst coal mining disaster in decades, the U.S. House of Representatives has squandered an opportunity to strengthen federal regulation of mine operations.   The Robert C. Byrd Mine Safety Protection Act, named after the ...   read more

Special interests ranging from NASCAR track owners to rum distilleries in Puerto Rico will benefit from the $858 billion tax bill that passed in the U.S. Senate 81-19 and in the House of Representatives 277-148. About $55 billion in tax breaks a...   read more

Before this year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a similar blowout involving another BP operation, in Azerbaijan, took place in 2008 that the company tried to keep secret.   Classified cables from State Department officials...   read more

The relatives of a 7-year-old girl shot dead in May by Detroit police are suing the A&E Television Network, claiming its involvement in the raid on the family’s home played a part in the girl’s death.   Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot once throu...   read more

Nearly 50 million Americans contract food poisoning each year and 3,000 die, according to new research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That amounts to one-sixth of the entire U.S. population coming down sick annually...   read more

If the government wants to see your emails stored by an Internet service provider, they first will have to get a warrant. The government used to skip getting a warrant, based on a 1986 law, the Stored Communications Act, granting such power. But...   read more

Unlike other branches of the military, the U.S. Air Force has decided to block all of its personnel from accessing media websites that published classified documents exposed by WikiLeaks. The Air Force says it is preventing computer users from v...   read more

Little did Sandra Stosz realize when she began serving in the U.S. Coast Guard 30 years ago that her first voyage at sea—aboard the icebreaker Glacier in Antarctica—would foreshadow a career of breaking through barriers.   Next summer, Stosz w...   read more

Men not only dominate films for the general populace, but those for families and children as well. After studying G, PG and PG-13 rated movies over a 20-year period (1990-2009), researchers at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journ...   read more

A dozen individuals were extradited over the past week to the U.S. from Mexico to stand trial, be sentenced or serve sentences for narcotics-related crimes. The 12 extraditions included Oscar Jacobo Rivera Peralta , Ricardo Valdez Torres and Alf...   read more

Every one of the top fraud settlements reached last year by the federal government involved health care, including eight cases involving pharmaceutical companies. The largest amount recovered was $600 million from Allergan for illegally marketing ...   read more

The government of Yemen has been accused by American diplomats of diverting U.S. funds for counterterrorism efforts to wage war against northern rebels.   Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed the illegal diversion after reviewing classified State ...   read more

Air Force Brigadier General Scott D. Chambers has been reassigned from his role as the senior military officer in charge of purchasing food, clothing and other supplies for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.   The top official in the Defense Logi...   read more

Controversy surrounding a censored exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution has resulted in the resignation of National Portrait Gallery commissioner James Bartlett, who quit in protest over the Smithsonian’s decision to pull David Wojnarowicz’s “...   read more

A class action lawsuit involving the nearly century-old Armenia genocide has been cleared to proceed in U.S. federal court after a panel of appellate judges reversed its own decision from last year.   Lead plaintiff Vazken Movsesian and other ...   read more

Born of political compromise, the agreement to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy is supported by President Barack Obama, even though he admits the tax breaks won’t help the unemployment situation.   “The issue here is not whether I ...   read more