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

David M. Rubenstein was appointed Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in May 2010. He is the sixth chairman of the arts organization, having been a member of its board since 2004. The federal government generally provi...   read more

The U.S. Department of Defense consumes more oil per day than 170 nations, including Pakistan, a country with 166 million people. Although the amount of fuel consumed by the military is not published, the quantity is estimated to be between 400,...   read more

As far as Justice Paul Wooten of New York City is concerned, Juliet Breitman and Jacob Kohn can be sued, even if they were four years old at the time of their vehicular recklessness. Both children were racing their bicycles, complete with traini...   read more

Washaway Beach in Washington State has lived up to its name, and then some. The most rapidly eroding stretch of coast in the Western United States has been losing 100 feet of sand and turf a year for the past century. The erosion recently cost t...   read more

David S. Ferriero became the tenth Archivist of the United States in November 2009. The first librarian to hold that position, Ferriero heads up the National Archives and Records Administration, the federal agency that maintains and preserves ni...   read more

Dr. Kerri-Ann Jones has run the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the State Department since August 20, 2009.   Jones graduated in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Barnard College at Colu...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested that a federal judge seal the courtroom of a trial involving computer code theft in order to protect trade secrets of Goldman Sachs.   Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by the FBI on charges of stealing...   read more

In Afghanistan, the American military is using handheld high-tech devices to scan the irises and record the fingerprints of Afghans to store in a database that allows soldiers to identify and capture insurgents.   The U.S. Army reportedly has ...   read more

The national homicide rate among women murdered by men in 2008 was 1.26 per 100,000, according to a study by the Violence Policy Center. Those states that exceeded the national average were led by Nevada whose 2.96 rate was more than double the ...   read more

When President Barack Obama nominated John P. Holdren to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), conservatives launched a major attack against him, claiming that Holdren had once advocated forced abortions. The source ...   read more

Joshua Gotbaum was nominated by President Barack Obama to be Director of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) in November 2009. He was approved by two Senate committees, but his confirmation was blocked by Sen. Sherrod Brown, (D-Ohio...   read more

It’s taken President Barack Obama less than two years to do what President Bill Clinton did in two terms in office: set a new record for the most openly gay appointments in an administration. To date, President Obama has selected more than 150 s...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama is helping defend former Attorney General John Ashcroft against a lawsuit that claims the Bush administration official should be held liable for misusing the law during the post-Sept. 1...   read more

GlaxoSmithKline agreed this week to pay the largest fine ever ($150 million) by a drug maker to settle criminal charges of having sold tainted products. The fine was part of a $750 million settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice t...   read more

The Republican Party of Iowa has been getting quite a lot for press these days for its new platform, which includes some rather unusual declarations.   For example, the Iowa GOP wants to establish a “no-activities night” every Wednesday in the...   read more

Eighteen criminal cases in Riverside County, California, have been dismissed by the state’s Supreme Court due to a lack of judges and criminal courtrooms. District Attorney Rod Pacheco argued for delaying rather than dismissal of the cases, whic...   read more