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

Google is suing the Department of the Interior, claiming it was unable to compete for an email and messaging contract due to restrictions involving Microsoft software. The Interior Department asked in August for bids from companies to devise a s...   read more

An unnamed school-hearing officer from Ohio thought he was in the clear in 1997 when his criminal record was expunged of a drug trafficking conviction from 1976, clearing the way for his employment with the Cincinnati school system. But when the...   read more

Five of the six top individual contributors this election season have given to one political action committee—American Crossroads—which Republican strategist Karl Rove helped launch to get conservative candidates elected to office.   According...   read more

The majority of the top non-party-affiliated spenders this election cycle have provided no information on the source of their campaign war-chests, according to Public Citizen. These groups have spent millions, and in some cases tens of millions ...   read more

California is not the place to be for Latinos and African-Americans who use marijuana. In city after city, these two minorities have been subject to disproportionately high levels of arrest and prosecution, according to studies produced by the D...   read more

More than 40 physicians have earned at least $200,000 since 2009 by moonlighting for the pharmaceutical industry, giving speeches to doctors about the wonders of a company’s drugs. These findings come from ProPublica, which gathered disclosure d...   read more

It wasn’t the biggest rally Washington, DC, has ever witnessed, but it did set a Saturday record for ridership on the Metro, the city’s underground and aboveground rail system. The event, known as the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, was put...   read more

Claiming that fighting terrorism is more important than protecting human rights, President Barack Obama has allowed four countries to continue receiving U.S. military aid even though they use child soldiers. The decision was made at the same tim...   read more

Oil companies and manufacturers are fighting new rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that require businesses to submit data on the amount of air pollution they release into the atmosphere. The EPA intends to publish the det...   read more

Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law wasn’t just the product of state Senator Russell Pearce’s effort to undo the “lawless” condition that illegal immigration has imposed on the nation. It was also driven by the private prison industry’s...   read more

State and local officials in Pennsylvania, as well as a law firm representing coal mining interests, are being sued for allegedly conspiring to move residents off their property for the sake of a land grab.   People living in the Borough of Ce...   read more

Bruce E. Kasold was named Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on August 6, 2010. He had been a Judge of the Court since his appointment by President George W. Bush in December 2003.   Kasold was born on April 26, 1951, i...   read more

Provo, Utah, has the distinction of being the most Republican city in the United States based on election results. In the 2008 presidential election, 78% of Provo voters chose Republican John McCain while only 19% went with Democrat Barack Obama. ...   read more

Millionaires now comprise more than 50% of the U.S. Senate, up from 44% last year. According to analyses of financial disclosure forms by Roll Call, 54 senators reported a minimum net worth of more than $1 million. The total came close to reachi...   read more

For a change, intelligence experts outside the U.S. government don’t have to guess how much Washington spent last year on civilian and military spying. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper agreed for the first time to publicly release...   read more

Opponents of biotechnology companies receiving human gene patents got a huge lift this week when the U.S. Department of Justice quietly filed a legal brief that reversed the government’s longstanding support of patenting the human genome.   Fe...   read more