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

More than 1,800 veterans were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis at the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center thanks to poorly sanitized dental equipment. The exposure, which VA officials insisted was “low risk,” took place over a year b...   read more

Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP), does not think much of the way the Department of the Treasury has stayed on top of financial institutions that were bailed out by the government during the f...   read more

The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are not following the government’s own forest plan for the Uinta National Forest in north-central Utah, according to three conservation groups that have filed an injunction to stop the re-leasi...   read more

Lawyers for Pfizer were unsuccessful this week in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant over its testing of a drug that killed 11 children in Nigeria and left many others disabled.   The high cour...   read more

Fraudulent birth certificates have become such a problem in Puerto Rico that government officials have taken the drastic step of invalidating all such documents issued before July 1 of this year. The 4 million residents of the island, plus the 1.2...   read more

Four individuals are suing the Florida Department of State over the choice of language in a ballot summary for the November election. At issue is the description of Amendment 9, which was put on the ballot by state lawmakers unhappy with the feder...   read more

In what could become the first step towards allowing genetically-engineered animals into the American diet, the Food and Drug Administration is debating whether to approve a new breed of salmon that can grow twice as fast as natural salmon.   Aq...   read more

Military officials have ambitious plans for conducting psychological operations (PSYOP) against America’s enemies, at a cost of about $1 billion. But the Department of Defense is not sufficiently staffed to implement all of its PSYOP goals, so it’...   read more

Afghanistan’s military and police still have a long way to go before they can operate without the assistance of the United States, which has overestimated the capabilities of the country’s security forces, according to an independent investigation...   read more

Vatican officials were displeased by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lawsuit to proceed in district court that seeks to prove the Catholic Church’s senior hierarchy was partly responsible for allowing American priests to molest young ...   read more

Local governments missed out on spending nearly $120 million in Federal Transit Administration earmarks that were available until September 2009, when the country was still steeped in recession. The $119.2 million, approved by Congress under SAFET...   read more

Top officials in the Afghanistan government are helping funnel billions of dollars out of the country, say U.S. investigators. Members of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration sent to Afghanistan estimate ...   read more

For someone who campaigned on the ideal of not succumbing to the politics-as-usual ways of Washington, President Barack Obama has embraced patronage and cronyism with real zeal when it comes to appointing ambassadors.   So far, President Obama h...   read more

It took three tries, but President Barack Obama finally got an appointment confirmed to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). After former FBI agent Erroll Southers’ nomination imploded over revelations that he accessed FBI databa...   read more

Had actor David Carradine received more attention from his personal assistant, he never would have resorted to a dangerous autoerotic act that took his life, alleges his wife in a lawsuit. Anne Carradine is suing MK2 Productions, the film company ...   read more

Until recently, U.S. Attorneys were permitted to approve their own travel expenses, leaving little oversight for how taxpayer dollars were being spent. The Obama administration changed this policy in March by now requiring the director or deputy d...   read more