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

Now is not a good time for municipalities in Michigan. The city of Hamtramck (population 23,000) has asked permission from the state to declare bankruptcy, due to a $3 million deficit it is unable to close. Hamtramck officials say the financial ...   read more

Nancy Hellman Bechtle was appointed to the Presidio Trust board of directors by President George W. Bush in 2008. She took over as chair of the board in January 2010. The Presidio Trust is a federal corporation created by Congress to manage the ...   read more

More than fifty years after it hit the market, and five years after the United Kingdom banned it, the painkiller Darvon is being pulled off the American market at the request of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug and a related bran...   read more

Parents in Iowa cannot be punished if their children break the law, ruled the state Supreme Court on a bad-parenting local ordinance. In 1999, the city of Davenport adopted a law promoting parental responsibility that allowed police to cite adul...   read more

Washington, DC, has opened the door for homosexual couples to get married without being physically present in the district, where gay marriage is legal. This week, two men, Thomas Mark Reed and Dante Karl Walkup, got married while in Dallas, Tex...   read more

Michael G. “Mike” Vickers has served as assistant secretary of defense for special operations/low-intensity conflict and interdependent capabilities since July 2007, having originally been selected by President George W. Bush for the position an...   read more

In June 2010, President Barack Obama appointed architect Milford Wayne Donaldson to be Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the nation’s lead agency on historic preservation. ACHP is an independent agency that works ...   read more

While the health insurance industry publically negotiated with Congress last year over the shape of the healthcare reform law, it secretly funneled more than $86 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce so it could criticize ideas, such as creati...   read more

Fresh off their November election victories, which enjoyed majority support from women for the first time in decades, Republicans in the U.S. Senate promptly failed in their first opportunity to show they’re serious about issues important to femal...   read more

The U.S. military wants to build a series of firing ranges on the Pacific island of Guam overlooking the remnants of an ancient settlement. Fearing the move will adversely affect the historically significant site, the National Trust for Historic...   read more

Officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, have been doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to businesses operated by convicted felons for them to run summer camps for foster kids and the homeless.   An investigation by the Palm Beach Post ...   read more

Mercedes Márquez has served as assistant secretary for community planning and development in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) since June 2009. The Office of Community Planning and Development is responsible for distributing ...   read more

The CIA is being forced to produce specific information regarding secret tests conducted on thousands of soldiers over a 25-year period.   In response to a lawsuit filed by three veterans groups and six individual veterans, a federal judge, Ja...   read more

Extending unemployment benefits for America’s long-term jobless can only help the economy, say experts on Wall Street and in Washington. But Republicans in Congress are determined not to appropriate any more money for unemployment assistance, ci...   read more

The warning signs were there, they just weren’t heeded. That is the conclusion of experts from the National Academy of Engineering who studied the possible causes of the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.   The academy says ther...   read more

Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has decided to end a Bush-era policy of allowing federal prosecutors to get criminal defendants to waive their rights to future DNA testing as part of pleading guilty in exchange for lighter prison sentences.   ...   read more