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

A Pennsylvania judge, Eduardo C. Robreno, will have to decide whether illegal seizures of virtual property in an online role-playing game can be addressed in a real courtroom. Four players of Second Life have sued the game’s creator, Linden Lab, f...   read more

American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have been running into a new threat from the Taliban: snipers. For much of the conflict, troops have had more to fear from roadside bombs than being shot, thanks to the poor marksmanship of Taliban fighter...   read more

While FBI agents quietly tracked the movements of terrorists planning to bomb the New York City subway system last year, local police conversed with an Islamic religious leader who had ties with the plotters—and in the process inadvertently helped...   read more

No matter how divergent two people can be in terms of background or beliefs, there’s always some common ground to be found. Take for instance American conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Iranian Muslim cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi—both ...   read more

Getting good grades in college is not as challenging as it once was, especially for students attending private institutions of higher learning. After charting 50 years worth of grade point averages, researchers Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher He...   read more

Charles Jumet, former vice president of Ports Engineering Consultants Corp. in Virginia, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for bribing officials in Panama with $200,000 during the late 1990s. The U.S. Department of Justice anno...   read more

America’s popularity throughout the world has risen over the past year, according to the BBC’s World Service Poll. While not the most popular nation on the block, the United States has nonetheless lowered its negative ratings by nine points, and...   read more

One of the world’s largest offshore drillers, Houston-based Pride International, has been accused of bribing governments all over the world, according to a shareholder lawsuit. The corporation announced on February 16 that it was creating a $56 mi...   read more

Army Specialist Marc Hall will not undergo a court martial trial, and instead has been released from his military service. Hall, a.k.a. hip hop artist Marc Watercus, was arrested in December after he refused to be sent back to Iraq and produced a ...   read more

An estimated 20 billion birds in recent decades have altered their migratory habits in response to climate change, says a leading ornithologist, Miguel Ferrer, of Spain. This means approximately 70% of the world’s migrating birds changed either th...   read more

Going green can entail not only how a person lives life on the planet, but how they leave it as well. Jane Hillhouse, founder of FinalFootprint.com, is part of a growing movement to offer environmentally-friendly burials that eliminate toxic chemi...   read more

Caring for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental illnesses is costing the federal government billions of dollars a year, and will continue to do so for years to come. According to an analysis of Department ...   read more

Described as a change long overdue by gay rights activists, hospitals will soon have to allow visitation rights to homosexual partners, under orders from President Barack Obama. The new rule will be enforced through the federal government’s Medica...   read more

The boom times for military contractors may be coming to an end if the Obama administration follows through on plans to cut back on outsourcing defense jobs to the private sector. During the previous decade, the Department of Defense, under Presid...   read more

Wanting to prove its weapons are safe to use, even on subjects who have ingested methamphetamine, Taser International sponsored a research study that drugged more than two dozen sheep and subjected them to the electric-shock weapon. The company fe...   read more

Conservative attorney and author Ken Connor is not willing to go along with reforms to the legal system that big business and many on the right have been advocating. Using the recent mining disaster in West Virginia as an example, Connor points ou...   read more