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

American construction businesses that used Chinese-made drywall containing toxic substances have tried to either get away with their decisions without public notice or give away the material to other U.S. suppliers.   WCI Communities, an East Co...   read more

David Wallechinsky is the author of The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics and The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. He is the vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians   Introduction The World Cup, by far the bigg...   read more

Special Operations forces have taken on an importance under President Barack Obama that they didn’t enjoy with the Bush administration—which wasn’t timid about employing commandoes in the war against terror. But Obama has embraced the secretive wo...   read more

Video footage showing the seriousness of the oil spill at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was kept from the public in the early days of the crisis. But exactly who was to blame for suppressing the images is up for debate.   BP insists the U.S. ...   read more

A study of sleep behaviors by various demographic groups has found distinct differences in bedtime patterns, according to the National Sleep Foundation’s 2010 Sleep in America Poll.   For instance, African-Americans are more likely to pray or pe...   read more

National Parks and public forests are increasingly becoming dangerous places to work for federal employees. Using data obtained from the federal government, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found that attacks and threat...   read more

Having received no response to its Freedom of Information Act request, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against the federal government seeking records showing how it has been collecting Americans’ international emails and phone...   read more

Using a powerful computer model to simulate how the Deepwater Horizon spill might extend beyond the Gulf of Mexico, scientists at The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have estimated that oil could wind up on the Atlantic seaboard. ...   read more

Anyone entering the state capitol in Austin, Texas, must pass through newly-installed metal detectors, unless they’re a lawmaker, a state employee or someone with a concealed gun permit. This last exception is now being exploited by lobbyists who ...   read more

A New York mother is suing the Schenectady City School District because officials at Oneida Middle School repeatedly suspended her seventh grade son in May for wearing a plastic rosary outside of his shirt in memory of his dead brother and uncle. ...   read more

Women who undergo mastectomies may have a more natural option for replacing surgically-removed breasts, if experiments in Australia are successful.   The Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne has developed a new surgical proced...   read more

Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto is having a hard time giving away free plant seeds in Haiti, thanks to the company’s reputation for using genetically-modified crops to exploit farmers in other countries.   Through the U.S. Agency for Interna...   read more

John Wooden, head basketball coach at UCLA from 1948 to 1975, died June 4, 2010, at the age of 99. He once defined success as the peace of mind “that comes from knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” In 199...   read more

Philip Alston, the United Nations special representative on extrajudicial executions, accused the United States of taking a self-entitled approach that bends international law while hunting down terrorists for “targeted killings” using unmanned dr...   read more

John Roberts? Antonin Scalia? Ruth Bader Ginsburg? These names, as well as the rest of those serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, drew blank stares from 65% of respondents who were asked to name anyone currently on the nation’s highest judicial body...   read more

Many ex-lawmakers who have joined the “Shadow Congress”—those who have gone into lobbying after leaving office—have accepted lucrative assignments to help push the agendas of the financial sector.   Analysis of federal disclosure records by Publ...   read more