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

It’s probably safe to assume that the Department of the Interior won’t be giving out any more awards soon to Transocean Ltd., owner of the offshore oil platform that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Up until last summer at least, the Minera...   read more

For the American soldiers manning Joint Security Station Wahab, Iraq, near the border with Iran, life has been a mix of espionage and being forgotten. The soldiers guarding the remote outpost, all from the 4th Brigade of the Army’s 1st Armored Div...   read more

Modern medicine may have found the answer for the insensitive jerk. Researchers in Germany and the United Kingdom claim it’s possible to make men more empathetic and caring by using a nasal spray which increases the level of oxytocin in the human ...   read more

In order to provide airplane fuel to American military operations in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan, the Department of Defense’s logistics agency has been doing business with two companies that have questionable backgrounds. Approximately $1.4 billion...   read more

Millions of American taxpayer dollars have been wasted trying to train Somalia’s ragtag army, as Washington officials try to shore up an isolated government surrounded by Islamic insurgents. The United States has spent $6.8 million since last year...   read more

Hundreds of Sunni men in Iraq were held without charge and tortured by the Shiite-controlled government for months in a secret facility, according to Human Rights Watch and media sources. Abuses included being hung upside-down, deprived of air, ki...   read more

Language diversity in the United States continues to expand, with 20% of the population age 5 and older reportedly speaking a language other than English at home. However, only 5% said they cannot speak English well.   A new report from the U.S....   read more

Michael Gerson, adviser and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, wants to see the United States establish “effective border enforcement” for the Southwest. But the new immigration law adopted by the state of Arizona is not the way to go, Gers...   read more

From readership participation to fundraising, political blogs vary markedly between liberals and conservatives. Researchers at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society studied more than 150 blogs during a two-week span of the 2...   read more

Massey Energy Co., owner of the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia that killed 29 workers in early April, was caught recently operating three other mines where safety rules were violated and miners had to be evacuated by inspectors for the Min...   read more

American soldiers exposed in 2003 to smoke from the burning Mishraq Sulfur Mine in northern Iraq have developed serious lung disorders not identifiable using x-rays or CT scans. In June 2003, Iraqi forces opposing the U.S. invasion set fire to the...   read more

In the frozen reaches of Canada, warmer temperatures brought on by climate change have yielded a bounty of historical information for archaeologists. Using the new discipline of ice patch archeology, scientists in recent years have uncovered in th...   read more

Cigarette companies soon will no longer be able to market tobacco products that happen to share the same name as non-tobacco brands owned by other companies, under rules adopted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But this restriction is a...   read more

After winning a $20 million settlement from the federal government, a group of veterans has decided to donate more than half of the money to two organizations that assist soldiers and their families.   The plaintiffs in the data theft lawsuit ag...   read more

Some Wall Street critics believe Goldman Sachs’ list of alleged frauds should include the use of high-speed manipulative trading techniques, some of which may be deemed illegal in the near future by the Securities and Exchange Commission.   Gold...   read more

Former drug kingpins have been on the move, with the United States playing both receiver and sender in two high-level extraditions.   After wanting for years to get their hands on Juan José Quintero Payán (aka Don Juanjo), U.S. law enforcement o...   read more