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

Political expression through poetry has prompted violent reactions by authorities from Iraq to Rhode Island.   In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Zardasht Osman, a student and freelance journalist, was found shot to death shortly after publ...   read more

A couple in Japan became the first to be married by a robot, according to manufacturer Kokoro Co. “I-Fairy,” four feet tall and with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails, performed the wedding ceremony for Tomohiro Shibata, 42, and Satoko Inoue, 36,...   read more

Two shareholders of Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, are suing the company and claiming executives defrauded investors by concealing its history of failed equipment designed to prevent the...   read more

In an attempt to improve medical care at its hospitals, the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a rating system that consequently has caused some VA facilities to be banned from performing elective surgeries. The “surgery complexity initi...   read more

Defense attorneys for Omar Khadr, the so-called “child soldier” of Guantánamo, have argued at their client’s military tribunal that some of the testimony being used against him by the U.S. was coerced. The tainted testimony was obtained soon after...   read more

Big age differences between husbands and wives are great for men’s longevity, but not for women’s. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, found women are better off marrying spouses of the same age, b...   read more

Cars today are as much products of computer electronics as they are automotive engineering. Because they contain and rely upon so much high-tech circuitry, cars are increasingly becoming vulnerable to computer hackers who may be able to manipulate...   read more

Under the Bush and Obama administrations, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) has granted permits to BP and other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico despite environmental concerns raised by another federal agency that endangered specie...   read more

Forty years and $1 trillion later, the United States is at a crossroads in its war on drugs. Many critics have long complained that treating the drug problem first and foremost as a law enforcement issue has been a mistake, and the Obama administr...   read more

Iraq is no longer the most costly foreign policy priority of the United States. Thanks to the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and the continued build-up of forces in Afghanistan, the latter is now costing $6.7 billion a month, compared to $5.5 bil...   read more

Ravil Mingazov, ballet dancer and former member of Russia’s army, has spent the past eight years behind bars at Guantánamo Bay. But he may soon be freed, following a ruling by a U.S. court judge who found the government had no grounds to keep him ...   read more

Bad singing is never pleasant to the ears, and when it involves the daily call to prayer in the Muslim world, it’s all that more tough to stomach. That’s why religious authorities in Turkey are now requiring some of Istanbul’s muezzins and imams t...   read more

Karzai is not just the last name of the president of Afghanistan—but also the name of perhaps the most powerful family in the country. A new report produced by the Institute for the Study of War states that the Karzai family exerts enormous influe...   read more

Likened to pitching a perfect game in baseball, four of the biggest players on Wall Street managed to do something rarely seen in the stock market. Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase conducted 61 straight days of trading ...   read more

Federal regulators want to lessen the “shock” that comes when some consumers open their cell phone bills. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intends to craft new rules requiring cell phone companies to warn customers if they’re starting t...   read more

With the trail of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger gone cold, the FBI is now trying a novel approach to locate the fugitive by pursuing his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, who’s had some nip-tuck over the years.   By placing a full-page ad in a recen...   read more