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

There is much the U.S. military and intelligence community don’t know about Afghanistan’s politics and culture, resulting in decisions that are born of ignorance and the product of suspect information from local sources with personal agendas. Beca...   read more

The U.S. Army has gotten out of paying lifetime benefits to wounded soldiers by fraudulently diagnosing them with “personality disorder” (PD), a pre-existing condition that trumps any injuries suffered from combat. Doing so has saved the Departmen...   read more

Afraid of violent consequences if they did not comply, most radio stations in Somalia have agreed to stop playing music—or even jingles—as ordered by Hizbul-Islam insurgents who believe the tunes are un-Islamic. Fourteen of the country’s 15 radio ...   read more

Spearheaded by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been creating local gardens across the United States and the globe and donating the food to pantries and soup kitchens. The effort began last year when Vil...   read more

State parks from one end of the United States to another face closure as a result of budget cuts imposed by lawmakers, prompting volunteers to step forward to keep some facilities open. In New York, Parks Commissioner Carol Ash said her agency is...   read more

If the nation’s largest corporations were inclined to fudge their tax returns, they would face pretty good odds (about 3-to-1) of getting away with it, since the IRS is now spending less time auditing such businesses. Syracuse University’s Transac...   read more

Appointments to the federal bench have been considerably more diverse during the first 14-months of President Barack Obama’s term when compared to the same time period for President George W. Bush. Whereas Bush’s nominations to districts courts an...   read more

Renaming Pakistan’s northernmost province has not gone down well with local residents who belong to the Hazara ethnic group. What was known by the British colonial name of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as decreed o...   read more

Legal powerhouse Bingham McCutchen is loading up on former federal regulators who failed to catch many of the highest profile Wall Street disasters in recent years. After hiring former chairman Christopher Cox and enforcement official Herbert Jani...   read more

The 372nd Military Police Company, which became infamous during the Abu Ghraib scandal six years ago, may be sent back to Iraq later this year. The Army Reserve unit is scheduled to undergo one to three months of training at Fort Bliss, Texas, be...   read more

The General Services Administration is in trouble with the American Small Business League (ASBL), which is alleging in a lawsuit that federal contracts intended for small companies are being awarded to large corporations. ASBL, which represents 10...   read more

President Barack Obama’s plan to revamp the nation’s space program is not sitting well with two of NASA’s biggest aerospace contractors, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Under the new vision put forth by Obama, NASA would scrap its return to the moon a...   read more

District Attorney Scott Southworth of Juneau County, Wisconsin, does not like the state’s new sex education law and is threatening to charge teachers with contributing to the delinquency of children if they teach students about using condoms and t...   read more

Federal prosecutors are investigating a small jail in Buffalo, New York, where six inmates have committed suicide in the past five years. That total, for the 680-bed Erie County Holding Facility, is considerably out of proportion compared with Ri...   read more

The pending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens means not only the loss of the U.S. Supreme Court’s oldest member, but also its only Protestant. This development has raised the question among legal observers whether President Barack Obama shou...   read more

After waiting more than a year for her confirmation, Dawn Johnsen withdrew her nomination on Friday as head of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).In a statement released by the White House, Johnsen blamed Republican oppositi...   read more