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

John D. Brewer was selected to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) after morale plummeted under the previous administrator. He took over as acting administrator on January 1, 2010, and as administrator on J...   read more

Despite what some are calling the worst ecological disaster in recent U.S. history, the much-criticized federal agency that oversees oil exploration has continued to exempt petroleum companies from having to perform in-depth environmental studies....   read more

In an attempt to demonstrate that terrorism can be thwarted without resorting to torture or endangering civil liberties, the American Security Project has issued a report claiming that most foiled plots since September 11, 2001, have come about fr...   read more

Seeking a compromise between the right and left, the Obama administration is making use of an old exception to the Miranda rule so that federal agents can interrogate terrorism suspects before informing them of their right to remain silent and see...   read more

The recent recession exacerbated the problem of Americans without health insurance, as rising unemployment forced many who were insured through their jobs to lose medical coverage. A study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows the per...   read more

Even food is used as a weapon in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.   Since Hamas came to power three years ago in the Gaza Strip, the government of Israel has maintained a strict blockade of goods from reaching Palestinians. The list of contrab...   read more

Three years after he was first appointed to serve on the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), John D. Bates took over as the presiding judge. Bates has been a federal judge for almost 10 years, serving on the U.S. District Cou...   read more

Is anti-U.S. terrorism on the rise among Muslim Americans? That depends on how you look at the findings of a new RAND report.   On the one hand, there have been at least 46 cases of plots by “homegrown terrorists” broken up in the United States ...   read more

Offshore oil workers stand a higher risk of getting killed or injured on the job than their counterparts in Europe. This finding was uncovered among others in an investigation by The Wall Street Journal of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), wh...   read more

Government scientists are denying media access to necropsies being performed on dozens of dead sea turtles found washed up along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Thirty five young Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, an endangered species, have been discovered on ...   read more

Despite his declaration that the government needed to address the nation’s “troubling trend” with outbreaks of food poisoning, President Barack Obama took almost a year to appoint Elisabeth Hagen as head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foo...   read more

Some of the highest profile business disasters in recent history have been driven by greed, demonstrating how important it is to usher in a new era of government regulation, argues Robert Reich, formerly of the Clinton administration and now a pro...   read more

The U.S. Army’s timing could have been better, while saying nothing about its better judgment. Only hours after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it was backing a lawsuit against defense contractor KBR Inc., the Army awarded the controversi...   read more

Much to the delight of environmentalists and to the chagrin of industry, a panel of experts has warned that cancer, the No. 2 killer of Americans, has been “grossly underestimated” when it comes to potential causes from everyday items and procedur...   read more

A special unit of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service has tracked down four immigrants accused of participating in one of the bloodiest episodes of Guatemala’s civil war. Agents working in ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Cri...   read more

Four journalists have been banned from covering military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay because they reported the name of a former soldier accused of abusing a detainee. The Defense Department said the media was asked at a recent hearing to identify ...   read more