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

Whether the objective is to help the dairy industry or feed the poor, governments are pushing cheese to help cure their economic ills.   In the United States, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is working at cross-purposes in assisting the D...   read more

Five Somali men who mistook a U.S. warship for a merchant vessel on April 1 will go on trial this week in the first case of piracy the government has tried since the Civil War.   The defendants are accused of firing assault rifles in April at ...   read more

The U.S. Department of Labor is taking a mining company to court for preventing a federal inspector from examining a sand and gravel rock-crushing operation near Weippe, Idaho.   Scott Amos, an inspector with the Mine Safety and Health Adminis...   read more

If AT&T has its way, the telecom giant and other corporations won’t be subject to class-action lawsuits by consumers.   In a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court (AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion), the company will argue that the cell phone ...   read more

The key to winning many of year’s contested congressional races was getting more help from outside groups than the other side from groups that either accept unlimited contributions or do not disclose the source of their money.   In 58 out of 7...   read more

Following the controversies surrounding detainee interrogations during the Bush administration, the Department of Defense has issued new regulations formally banning the use of private contractors to grill suspected terrorists held by the U.S. m...   read more

Survivors of the deadly gas-pipeline explosion that occurred September 9th in San Bruno, California, are suing Pacific Gas & Electric for causing the disaster. Among the claims leveled at PG&E is the assertion that the company received $5 millio...   read more

Joseph H. Boardman was appointed president and chief executive officer by Amtrak’s Board of Directors, effective November 26, 2008.   A native of Taberg, New York, Boardman was raised, the second of eight children, on a dairy farm in Oneida Co...   read more

On Tuesday, voters in California rejected a proposal to legalize marijuana for people over the age of 21. Proposition 19 lost 54% to 46%, with 11 of the state’s 58 counties voting in favor and 47 voting against. What may appear surprising to many ...   read more

Naval officer Michael Izbicki has twice been denied an honorable discharge because the U.S. Navy rejected his assertion that he is a conscientious objector. Hailing from a family with a history of military service, Izbicki came to conclude that ...   read more

Misrepresenting a campaign opponent’s position may be standard operating procedure in the United States, but in the United Kingdom it has cost a member of the British parliament his seat. Phil Woolas was removed from office by an election court ...   read more

PBS’s NewsHour, regarded by its supporters as a more thorough alternative to network and cable television news, has demonstrated a noticeable pro-war slant in its coverage of Afghanistan, according to a recent analysis by the media watchdog group,...   read more

Jonathan M. Young was appointed to the National Council on Disability as a board member and chairman by President Barack Obama in December 2009.   In 1986, Young broke his neck during a high school wrestling match and is partially paralyzed with...   read more

Perhaps no other U.S. Supreme Court decision has had as much impact on an election in modern times as the Citizens United ruling did this year. The court case, which threw out longstanding limits on contributions by corporations and unions, help...   read more

At the October 30, 2010, Sanity and Fear rally in Washington, D.C., organized by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, participants were urged to bring signs that expressed issues they considered important. Here is a sampling. (photos: Elijah...   read more

American diplomatic operations in Afghanistan are proving expensive and not necessarily all that efficient.   On the cost front, the U.S. embassy in Kabul is being expanded, at a price of more than half a billion dollars. The $511 million proj...   read more