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

Misguided public policies are fueling the AIDS epidemic in the American South, says Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new report (Southern Exposure: HIV and Human Rights in the Southern United States). The organization blames leaders in Southern sta...   read more

Aasia Bibi, a 45-year-old Christian mother of five children, has spent a year-and-a-half in a Pakistan jail on charges of insulting the prophet Muhammad and the Quran, and faces the possibility of being executed. An aide to President Asif Ali Za...   read more

Brigadier General Sean B. MacFarland has served as the deputy commanding general of the Combined Arms Center (CAC)–Leader Development and Education, and deputy commandant of the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) since July 9. 2010. MacFar...   read more

Teresa “Terri” McKay has served as director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) in the Department of Defense since September 15, 2008. In this capacity, she oversees the Pentagon’s day-to-day accounting and finance activities, i...   read more

WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that has embarrassed both the Obama and Bush administrations twice before, is about to drop another bomb, and this time several U.S. allies may also suffer from the fallout.   WikiLeaks is preparing to rele...   read more

The United States has passed an unfortunate landmark…U.S. troops have now been stuck in Afghanistan longer than was the Soviet Union. As of November 26, the American military matched the length of time that the once mighty Red Army spent in Afgh...   read more

CQ Press’s annual City Crime Rankings has declared St. Louis, Missouri, the worst urban center for crime, displacing Camden, New Jersey, which finished with the second highest crime rate after occupying the top spot last year. Other top crime-ri...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Rose M. Likins has served as U.S. ambassador to Peru since September 15, 2010.   The daughter of Eugene and Merlyn McCartney, she was born in 1959. Likins earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish...   read more

Tammye H. Treviño has served as administrator of the Rural Development Housing and Community Facilities Programs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture since June 2009. The agency administers aid to rural communities that focus on home ownership an...   read more

Faith-based organizations that accept federal funding cannot proselytize while providing social programs to the needy, under a new executive order signed by President Barack Obama. The order changes the original initiative, adopted by President Ge...   read more

Goodbye green, blue, yellow, orange and red. Hello … well, they’re still working on that.   The Obama administration has decided to discard one of the most visible reminders of the post-Sept. 11 anti-terror policies installed by President Geor...   read more

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) spent two decades under-reporting radiation levels in local water supplies, which helped water districts avoid fines, but exposed residents to potentially harmful radioactive elements.   An ...   read more

A 35-year veteran specializing in military intelligence, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr. has served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency since March 2009. He also serves as commander of the Joint Functional Componen...   read more

In one of the more unusual cases to make its way to the judicial branch of government, a federal court in Nevada will soon hear legal arguments over the patent rights of a digital masturbation device intended for use with Internet porn. New Fron...   read more

Much maligned by Republicans since the election, earmarks are defined under U.S. Senate rules as a spending item inserted “primarily at the request of a senator” that goes “to an entity, or (is) targeted to a specific state.” This definition fits ...   read more

In March 2010, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Robert L. “Bob” Caslen, Jr. took over as commander of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers and traini...   read more