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

What’s not to like, says the Catholic Church’s semi-official newspaper about the cult comedy film The Blues Brothers. With the movie’s 30th anniversary coming up, L'Osservatore Romano decided to devote a full-page story endorsing The Blues Brother...   read more

Like animals fleeing a forest fire, fish, sea birds and mammals are relocating close to the gulf coastline to avoid ocean waters polluted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Biologists report seeing dolphins and sharks in shallow areas off the Flo...   read more

More than a hundred and fifty years ago, Americans were thrown into jail for not paying their debts, until the country did away with so-called debtors’ prisons in 1833. Today, similar punishments have returned for those in over their heads in debt...   read more

Building a reliable “virtual” border fence in the American Southwest is not close to becoming a practical reality. Since 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has spent about $1 billion to deploy and test detection systems along small stretche...   read more

Following up on its investigation of factory farms that produce millions of eggs for American consumers, The Humane Society of the United States has filed a complaint against Rose Acre Farms with the Federal Trade Commission. Rose Acre, the nation...   read more

While there’s been no change at the very top, the leading immigrant groups in the United States now have a new member of the top three. After the two largest immigrant populations—Mexicans (No. 1) and Filipinos (No. 2)—Chinese are no longer third....   read more

BP’s use of a toxic dispersant to break up oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico will cause worse long-term damage to the ecosystem than had the company allowed the spill to reach coastal shorelines, contends a group of oystermen suing the petr...   read more

The trick to helping veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggling with anger issues may lie in focusing on certain symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), say researchers with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ...   read more

Yahya Wehelie, a U.S. citizen born to immigrants from Somalia, spent 18 months in Yemen. He says he was there to learn Arabic and look for a bride before deciding to return to the United States. But Wehelie’s trip home was interrupted in Egypt, wh...   read more

In a sign that Washington is taking seriously the heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, the United States’ top military commander in South Korea will take back control of an annual military exercise between American and Korean forces.   ...   read more

Small island nations throughout the world are vulnerable to rising sea levels, which is why their representatives called for a study at the climate change talks currently being held in Bonn, Germany. But the effort to examine the challenges and da...   read more

The amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico could be 12 times higher the federal government originally estimated, based on new figures released out of Washington. The U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with the Department of the Int...   read more

The Department of Defense was told by Congress in 2008 to administer tests to soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in order to check for possible brain injuries. But more than half a million troops have not received such screening upon com...   read more

For two years the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been trying to create a life sciences award in the name of the dictator of the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who donated $3 mi...   read more

Forty-eight hours before the House voted in December on a reform plan affecting the financial industry, at least eight lawmakers held fundraisers or received substantial contributions from special interests that had a stake in the legislation. Tho...   read more

An organization representing small businesses is suing NASA because the space agency refuses to release records of its contracts. The American Small Business League suspects NASA has improperly awarded contracts intended for small businesses to Un...   read more