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

African-Americans and Jews continue to experience more hate crimes than any other ethnic or religious group in the United States, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. Of the 8,336 hate crime victims in 2009, 2,902 were black and 1,13...   read more

College graduates today are starting out with considerably more debt than their counterparts who finished school in the mid-1990s, thanks to the need to borrow more student loans than before. The Pew Research Center reported in a new study that 65...   read more

Publicly, U.S. government officials have said they’re making progress in their attempts to cut off international funding of terrorist organizations. Privately, they tell a much different story.   A classified communiqué from Secretary of State...   read more

Reading WikiLeaks’ treasure trove of classified documents from the State Department can be bad for your career, says the Obama administration. Since the website began publishing diplomatic cables, officials from the Executive Branch have warned ...   read more

When Google and 30 other large U.S. corporations became the target of an elaborate computer attack, observers speculated that China’s government was behind the hacking. It turns out that this speculation may have been spot on.   A secret cable...   read more

The IRS likes to tout that it did a better job of identifying fraudulent tax returns among all those who filed during the 2010 tax season, claiming it discovered nearly 250,000 cheaters and prevented $1.48 billion from being wrongly paid out. Bu...   read more

If 34 National Guard soldiers win their lawsuit against contractor KBR Inc., the Department of Defense—and thus taxpayers—will wind up paying for the civil damages, not the company that did the wrongdoing. That’s because KBR received an immunity...   read more

Location, location, location … it’s not just the most important aspect of real estate but soon the stock market as well.   The longstanding image of traders on an exchange floor buying and selling is giving way to the ultra-fast wizardry of co...   read more

When the U.S. House of Representatives refused to pass the Bush administration’s bailout plan on September 29, 2008, Wall Street collectively gulped and, unbeknownst to the American public, ran to the bank. The bank in this case was the Federal ...   read more

Waste Control Specialists is looking to make money off low-level radioactive waste from three dozen states by offering to store it in a remote area along the Texas and New Mexico border. But the proposed storage has upset activists in Texas and th...   read more

The most recent employment figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) were discouraging, with the overall unemployment rate rising to 9.8%, the worst in seven months. However, November was particularly bad for Hispanic workers. For...   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 Apri...   read more

Philip Murphy’s days as U.S. ambassador to Germany may be numbered. However, many of the media accounts have misrepresented Murphy’s position. Among the thousands of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks was one that the media characterized as...   read more

Fracking is becoming a nasty word for many Americans with underground wells. The term, which is a shortcut for “hydraulic fracturing,” applies to the method of extracting natural gas by injecting the earth with chemically-tainted water to break ...   read more

Nearly 10,000 Filipino survivors of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship or their relatives may finally see some of the money owed them after first filing a lawsuit in the mid-1980s. Marcos’ estate has avoided paying the plaintiffs nearly $2 billio...   read more

A federal judge for the past 15 years, William K. Sessions III has chaired the United States Sentencing Commission since October 2009. Created in 1984 to deal with disparities in sentencing in different states, the Commission develops sentencing...   read more