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

Attention parents: if you want your children to work in a well-paid, high-demand field, encourage them to join the war against cyber threats.   The U.S. government today has about 1,000 computer specialists who fight off hackers attempting to in...   read more

Banks continue to fail in large numbers across the country, marking the second consecutive year in which more than 100 financial institutions have shuttered their doors. After 140 banks collapsed in 2009, this year has witnessed 103 failures so fa...   read more

With prices for cocoa having already risen 150% since 2008, makers of chocolate are up in arms over a British hedge fund manager’s recent buying spree of the valuable crop. Anthony Ward, head of the investment firm Armajaro, now controls the equiv...   read more

Former U.S. Army General Eric Shinseki probably knows something about Trojan horses from his military history. Shinseki, now the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been accused by critics of sending a Trojan bill to Congress that does...   read more

A federal judge has backed CIA efforts to conceal information about treatment of detainees, even if the suppressed records contain details about illegal activity on the part of the intelligence agency.   U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rul...   read more

In the wake of the Upper Big Ranch mine accident in April that killed 29 workers, National Public Radio has reported that safety and health violations in the American coal industry have gone up by a third since 2006. The story focused on the West ...   read more

University scientists willing to help BP fight off numerous court cases stemming from the gulf oil spill can make $250 an hour. The oil company has been reaching out to experts at public universities along the gulf coast, and has reportedly hired ...   read more

Being an engineering battalion instead of an infantry one has not made life any safer for the 700 members of a U.S. Army unit out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The 20th Engineer Brigade’s 27th Engineer Battalion has suffered eight fatalities in t...   read more

U-Haul, the nation’s largest one-way truck rental business, will have its pricing schemes monitored for the next 20 years by the federal government after being caught colluding with competitors to charge customers more money.   An investigation ...   read more

The fight may be over in Congress involving healthcare reform, but it is still being waged at the regulatory level in many states as insurance companies seek to include various overhead expenses under the heading “patient welfare.”   The new fed...   read more

A federal appeals court has ruled it was okay for General Electric to use computer software copyrighted by another company even though it hacked its way into the protected technology. The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by MGE UPS Systems, manuf...   read more

According to a government watchdog group, the Center for Responsive Politics, about a third of all lobbyists in Washington, DC, used to work for the federal government. But the percentage among oil lobbyists with “revolving door connections” is dr...   read more

The agency responsible for ensuring that technology that can be used to build weapons of mass destruction does not fall into the wrong hands has a new leader, following a confirmation delay of more than six months. Eric L. Hirschhorn, whom Preside...   read more

In becoming the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General James F. Amos would represent a major break with tradition, making him the first leader of the armed service with a background as a fighter pilot. All previous commandants have been comm...   read more

Federal prison officials have eliminated thousands of jobs for inmates over the past two years to help close a $65 million budget gap. Described as one of the largest cutbacks in the 75-year history of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI), the lay...   read more

A 20-year veteran of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, David M. Kennedy has served as the acting assistant administrator for the National Ocean Service since October 2009. He has specialized in dealing with oil and chemical spi...   read more