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

Following the Enron accounting scandal, Congress adopted the Sarbanes-Oxley (“Sarbox”) corporate reform law to reduce the risk of future corporate fiascoes by bolstering protections for whistleblowers. But in the eight years since the law was pass...   read more

Patrick Corvington was sworn in as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) on February 18, 2010. He has spent much of his career in the non-profit world, focusing on issues ranging from homelessness to ...   read more

A career officer in the Senior Foreign Service, Carol A. Rodley is serving her second tour in Cambodia, having worked in the Southeast Asian country in the late 1990s. Although she has served in many capacities in the State Department, Rodley is w...   read more

Environmentalists have been pushing for the removal of old dams on Western rivers and streams to make it easier for salmon to migrate upstream. But a lawsuit filed in Oregon claims just the opposite—that the tearing down of the century-old Gold Ra...   read more

Perhaps Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano didn’t get the memo about the Obama administration being all for greater openness in government.   An investigation by the Associated Press has found that the Department of Homeland Security sent Freed...   read more

As if BP didn’t have enough public relations problems on its hands stemming from the gulf oil spill, it turns out the oil company doctored some of the photos it released to the media demonstrating its response to the disaster.   First, BP commun...   read more

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut tried to get rid of women’s volleyball and replace it with competitive cheerleading. The move prompted a lawsuit from female students on the volleyball team, who successfully argued in federal court that the un...   read more

Hoping to help resolve the constitutional crisis unfolding on the tiny Islamic island nation, the U.S. government dispatched Robert Blake, assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, to the Maldives. The country of little more than 30...   read more

Sunshine is aplenty in Florida, where candidates for Congress are getting a little light shone on them as part of CREW’s list of Crooked Candidates 2010. The watchdog group (aka Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) decided to scou...   read more

Federal officials have had a difficult time getting BP and Transoecan witnesses to testify before hearings held in New Orleans that are designed to determine the causes of the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.   To date, nine wi...   read more

Concerned over the future of the Great Lakes’ fish supply, five states have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking the government to take action to stop the spread of the Asian carp. Officials in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylv...   read more

Producing large amounts of electricity and carbon dioxide don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand, not if a company has diversified its means of power generation to include alternative sources of energy.   Take for instance NextEra Energy, the nation...   read more

A union representing federal workers is trying to derail a U.S. Air Force pilot project that could lead to air bases across the country hiring private contractors to provide food services to military personnel.   Under the Food Transformation In...   read more

Millions of Americans are not ready for retirement, according to Dallas Salisbury, president of the Alliance for Investor Education and the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The numbers Salisbury provided to AlterNet are startling:   One-thir...   read more

The special watchdog created by the federal government to oversee spending in Afghanistan is doing a lousy job, according to other government watchdogs.   At issue is the work of The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Recons...   read more

Either Thurman Higginbotham couldn’t wait to go on vacation, or he wanted nothing to do with testifying before Congress about the controversy at Arlington National Cemetery.   Higginbotham, who had served as deputy superintendent for the nationa...   read more