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

Agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) failed to inform its shareholders that senior executives would receive $1.3 billion in compensation for last year—an amount representing 74% of the company’s 2009 net earnings, according to a lawsui...   read more

After struggling for three decades to win recognition, the Shinnecock Indians last week were officially declared a federally-sanctioned tribe by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The legal status means the relatively impoverished tribe of 1,292 member...   read more

Marcia K. McNutt, President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), was confirmed by the U.S. Senate October 21, 2009. McNutt is a geological scientist whose oceanography work includes training with Navy SEALS in underwate...   read more

The choice of Mari Del Carmen Aponte as ambassador to El Salvador got the conservative blogosphere all riled up, after word got out about Aponte’s failed nomination during the Clinton administration. Back then, President Bill Clinton put forth her...   read more

What Matthew W. Barzun lacks in terms of diplomatic experience, or knowledge about Sweden, he makes up with having supported President Barack Obama’s election—to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The former CNET executive was one of Ob...   read more

Overseeing the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is Mary Wakefield, a former nurse, congressional staffer and professor regarded as an expert in rural health care, patient safety, Medicare payment policy, workforce issues and pub...   read more

A longtime national security and foreign policy expert, Lee Feinstein’s selection to become the U.S. ambassador to Poland followed his previous service to the Clintons, first as an advisor in the Pentagon and State Department during the 1990s, and...   read more

Instead of buying American to equip Afghanistan’s air force, the U.S. Department of Defense decided to purchase helicopters from Russia. Not surprisingly perhaps, this decision has not gone over well with members of Congress.   So far, the Penta...   read more

Seeking ways to cut wasteful spending, President Barack Obama has ordered the Department of the Treasury, the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration to create a database for federal agencies to use in order to stop...   read more

Two years’ worth of work, amounting to about 500 cases, will have to be reconsidered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court in a split decision that crossed ideological lines. The five-member NLRB tried ...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration should use the expanded powers given to it by Congress and crackdown on the level of nicotine in cigarettes, argues David Kessler, former head of the FDA during the Clinton administration. Kessler, who tried to reg...   read more

Republican Neil Combee, a former county commissioner, really wanted to run for the Florida Legislature and challenge Kelli Stargel, the GOP incumbent in the District 64 House seat. But last Friday, when the deadline passed for getting on the prima...   read more

1978. That’s when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first began developing regulations for sunscreen products—and still has not implemented anything in 32 years.   Manufacturers have been able for decades to promote their sun-block lotions ...   read more

A U.S. Air Force Base in Texas lost track of 17 military personnel visiting from Afghanistan to study English at a language school. Of the 17 who went AWOL over a period of 18 months from the Defense Language Institute English Language Center at L...   read more

Seeking to address concerns that big meat processors have too much power over market prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed new regulations designed to open up commercial opportunities for small farmers supplying chicken an...   read more

Men’s aggressive nature makes them less successful than women when it comes to playing the stock market. Researchers studied more than 29,000 men and 8,000 women who invested in stocks in the 1990s, and found men traded more but made less on their...   read more