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

Using a tactic he criticized when his predecessor employed it, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve “emergency” legislation to cover costs associated with disaster relief, assistance for Haiti and the military campaigns in Afghanis...   read more

Lance Orton and Duane Jackson, hailed as heroes by the New York media and President Barack Obama, were not the first ones to spot and call attention to the bomb-laden SUV parked in Times Square earlier this month. Even though Orton and Jackson hav...   read more

Federal law forbids felons convicted of violent crimes from buying guns—but not renting them at stores. Owners of gun stores are not required to perform background checks on customers who merely want to rent a firearm for use at the store’s gun ra...   read more

Twitter could soon become the ultimate fortune teller for movie success, and possibly even elections.   Two researchers at HP Labs examined nearly three million posts to Twitter, or tweets, from 1.2 million users for three months in 2009-2010 to...   read more

The Obama administration seems to have multiple definitions of “moratorium.” Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon accident occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama promised a cessation of new offshore oil drilling while the governmen...   read more

Wanting better protection for American soldiers from roadside bombs and other attacks, the U.S. military is rushing the delivery of special “mine-resistant, ambush-protected” (or MRAP) vehicles to Afghanistan. But some variations of the MRAP are s...   read more

One clear indication that the financial industry reform plan adopted by the Senate can’t be that tough is the reaction coming from Wall Street. A longtime investment banker anonymously told The New York Times that there was “a sigh of relief” from...   read more

Applying many of the perfumes, colognes and body sprays on the market today can mean subjecting oneself to a dozen different secret chemicals, some which can cause allergic reactions or disrupt human hormones.   A report by The Campaign for Safe...   read more

The mess that Wall Street made of itself two years ago wasn’t as complicated to understand as you might think, writes Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, a daily web television talk show.   A lot of the trouble was caused by side bets—high-sta...   read more

Sexually-violent predators can remain held in prison after serving their sentences if the government provides “clear and convincing” evidence that the individuals remain a threat to society, according to a new ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. ...   read more

Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Department of Justice is considering a lawsuit to stop the new immigration law in Arizona from going into effect. Such a move, though, might prove awkward unless the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Co...   read more

Voters in Nevada will have to leave their chicken suits at home when they go to the polls this year. Elections officials decided to ban such attire to prevent opponents of Republican Sue Lowden from making fun of her recent fowl remark about healt...   read more

From its manufacture to its mission, the X-37B space plane is shrouded in mystery. Built by Boeing’s Phantom Works group for the U.S. Air Force, the unmanned, robotic spacecraft is currently orbiting the earth on a classified mission as it conduct...   read more

Wealth inequality between white and black Americans has continued to widen since the 1980s. The Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University examined economic data gathered from a group of 2,000 families from 1984-2007 and conclude...   read more

An airport security program designed to detect terrorists allowed more than a dozen suspects to board U.S. flights. An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the Transportation Security Administration’s Screening Passenge...   read more

BP’s ruptured oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico could be spewing nearly 20 times more petroleum into the ocean than the company—with the Obama administration’s complicity—has claimed. Since the April 20 accident that caused the Deepwate...   read more