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

On top of the fact that the Great Recession was tougher on men than women in terms of job loss, the recovery is trending towards new work opportunities that have far higher rates of female employment.   The “Mancession” caused more men than wo...   read more

Lost amid the fighting over extending tax cuts for the rich has been a subsidy program for alternative energy projects that is set to expire at year’s end. Advocates for the solar and wind industries say the grants are needed to keep projects mo...   read more

In an attempt to maintain morale among troops, U.S. military commanders are looking the other way and allowing soldiers and Marines to care for stray dogs and cats on bases in Afghanistan, even though it is prohibited by the Uniform Code of Mili...   read more

When Mexican drug cartels need weapons, they turn to gun shops in Texas more than any other state in the U.S. An investigation by The Washington Post determined the top 12 U.S. dealers of guns traced to Mexico in the past two years, of which eig...   read more

Public Warehousing Co. (aka Agility) ran afoul of the Department of Defense last year after it was caught overbilling the government for work stemming from its $8.5 billion contract to distribute food to American soldiers in Jordan, Iraq and Kuwai...   read more

The tepid economic recovery has done little to encourage Americans to strike out on their own. Since the recession officially ended at the end of 2009, the rate of the self-employed has dipped from 10.6% to 10.0%. There are several possible fact...   read more

A bipartisan group of lawyers who have held the same job for which James M. Cole has been nominated think he should be confirmed as the No. 2 person in the U.S. Department of Justice. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from holding up Cole’s no...   read more

The United States could soon have a geek gap on its hands unless it starts graduating more computer science majors.   At time when computer hacking and security have become crucial issues for the government and the private sector, the U.S. is ...   read more

Don’t bother inquiring about the sugar content of sodas at fast-food chains like McDonald’s and Burger King, because whatever the companies claim, the numbers may be wrong. This fact has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Sout...   read more

The University of Phoenix and other for-profit colleges have made hundreds of millions of dollars since 2001 by aggressively recruiting soldiers using the GI Bill to obtain higher education. In just one year, these schools collected about $640 m...   read more

President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Government Printing Office (GPO) is William J. Boarman, a longtime labor union executive who began his career in the printing business and who has represented organized printers. He was nominated on Ap...   read more

Vermont continues to be the healthiest state in the nation, according to America’s Health Rankings, which are based on a variety of factors, such as number of smokers, hospitalizations, infectious disease, obesity, child poverty and availability...   read more

The tranquility of Easter Island in the South Pacific was shattered last week when Chilean police evicted local citizens, who have sought the return of control of their ancestral lands. Protesters have occupied more than a dozen properties, incl...   read more

Beth Dozoretz does not lack for powerful political connections. Chosen to be director of the Art in Embassies Program in December 2010, she is a longtime Democratic fundraiser with close ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, who also was the first w...   read more

The FBI had over a year to turn over all documents pertaining to its investigation of the 2001 Anthrax attacks to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which was asked by Congress to review the controversial case. But now, just as the NAS is pre...   read more

The last time a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony featured an empty chair, symbolizing the imprisonment of the recipient in his home country, was when Adolph Hitler’s fascist regime prevented German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky from atten...   read more