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

In an attempt to avoid political embarrassment, the Obama administration has reached a deal with Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr that will keep the former child soldier from being the subject of the government’s first military tribunal.   Khadr...   read more

Bloomberg News has tried since January 2009 to obtain information from the Department of the Treasury about $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup that the government has agreed to guarantee. Despite President Barack Obama’s promise to ma...   read more

Details about the United States’ largest prison in Afghanistan will remain secret, according to a federal judge’s ruling this week. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sought documents from the Department of Defense and the CIA about t...   read more

Defense contractor EOD Technology (EODT) of Tennessee is being sued by its own subcontractor, Kuwait-based MAKS General Trading & Contracting, for stealing prefabricated homes built for American soldiers stationed at Bagram Air Base in Afghanist...   read more

Law enforcement and intelligence officials are spending more time these days inside New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to improve their skills of observation.   The officers and agents are taking the class, The Art of Percepti...   read more

It was a Republican administration that created the risky bailout plan of the banking industry, and a Democratic administration that bailed out the auto industry, but it is Republicans who are hauling in the bulk of contributions this election f...   read more

American military commanders knew of more than a thousand reports of Iraqi security forces torturing prisoners, but this didn’t stop officials in the Obama administration from deciding to hand over detainees to the Iraq government.   According...   read more

Audits may not seem like glamorous work, but they are worth celebrating when the result is billions of tax dollars saved. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency recently hosted an awards ceremony for federal agency wat...   read more

Hacking and other forms of electronic data theft are now a bigger problem for companies worldwide than old fashioned stealing of physical property.   The risk consulting company Kroll found in its latest annual survey that 27.3% of businesses ...   read more

Located just outside Washington, DC, in Forestville, Maryland, Realco gun shop is the place to go for criminals seeking weapons. An investigation by The Washington Post turned up 86 guns sold by Realco during the last 18 years that were linked t...   read more

What’s good for business isn’t always good for public health, which sums up the problem with the food inspection system in the United States.   Making sure poultry farms or meatpacking plants are clean isn’t completely a job that is being perf...   read more

Judicial nominees continue to pile up in the U.S. Senate, where Republicans have blocked so many judges from being confirmed that 19 states now have “judicial emergencies” on their hands—meaning cases are backing up as the legal system becomes c...   read more

L’Houssaine Kherchtou of Morocco joined al-Qaeda in 1991, determined to become the personal pilot for Osama bin Laden. But Kherchtou got out of the terrorist organization after it decided to relocate its operation from Sudan to Afghanistan and i...   read more

As part of its push for the National Broadband Plan, the Obama administration wants to redirect certain portions of the broadcast spectrum for use by cellular companies so they can keep up with demand for advanced wireless Internet service. But th...   read more

A college professor with extensive experience in communications and communications policy, Ernest J. Wilson III is the longest serving member of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board. He has held the position of chair since September 2...   read more

Executives in charge of a controversial body-armor manufacturer have lost another ruling in court.   Last month, former CEO David Brooks and former chief operating officer Sandra Hatfield of DHB Industries were convicted of orchestrating a $19...   read more