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

Adam and Amy Korst of Dallas, Oregon, have done something rarely attempted in modern American culture: go an entire year without producing any garbage. Sensitive to the volume of waste Americans discard into landfills, the Korsts have tried since ...   read more

A career union official and mine safety expert, Joseph A. (Joe) Main’s selection as Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health in the Department of Labor represents a dramatic turnaround for the leadership of the Mine Safety and Health Adminis...   read more

America’s top commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, continues to struggle with the problem of U.S. troops shooting innocent citizens at checkpoints or near passing convoys. During a virtual town hall meeting with U.S. soldiers...   read more

Discussions of Washington’s bailout of Wall Street have mostly focused on what the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has spent: $410 billion. But the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) claims the real total of the federal rescue amounts to th...   read more

Following the news that health insurer WellPoint’s California subsidiary Anthem decided to increase rates for individual policyholders by as much as 39%, it’s now come out that WellPoint gave its top executive, Angela Braly, a 51% boost in compens...   read more

As part of its contract with the federal government, defense contractor KBR Inc. agreed to rely on the U.S. Army for security in war zones. But instead of doing this, KBR hired private security guards—and billed the government for the unauthorized...   read more

Less ice in the Arctic Ocean means more opportunities for all kinds of industries, from tourism to natural resources. A new report to Congress says global warming is likely to result in more exploration for oil and natural gas once the summer ice...   read more

The worst air polluter in the United States isn’t an oil or chemical company, but a longtime name best associated with aspirin: Bayer. According to the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Bayer Grou...   read more

The best news the government has to offer for the 15 million Americans looking for work is that unemployment has leveled off at 9.7% and is likely to remain around that level for the rest of the year. The fact that the jobless pool won’t grow more...   read more

The bad news seems without end for pharmaceutical manufacturer Pfizer, which has only itself to blame. In addition to paying the largest criminal fine in U.S. history ($1.19 billion) for illegally marketing the painkiller Bextra, Pfizer created a ...   read more

For many Iraqi and Afghan civilians who have suffered losses at the hands of American soldiers, getting compensated for dead relatives or damaged property often results in denials or bureaucratic redirections that lead to small payments.   After...   read more

Unable to get the new airfield it needs, the U.S. Navy is considering renting runways at public and private airports in Virginia to accommodate the practice flights of some aircraft. Naval officials have tried unsuccessfully for years to build new...   read more

Foreign buyers are itching for the opportunity to buy American-made pilotless reconnaissance aircraft, and the Department of Defense does not plan to get in the way, despite concerns that the military technology could fall into the wrong hands.  ...   read more

To say hedge fund managers have it better off than corporate CEOs is like saying billionaires have really got it over multi-millionaires.   New data released shows times are still pretty good for many corporate executives, even though compensati...   read more

Republican Representative Todd Tiahrt of Kansas is blaming President Barack Obama for having to spend more taxpayer dollars on his congressional office. Tiahrt claims the 11% increase in spending is due to the fact that his office has been getting...   read more

Dieter Krombach of Germany is awaiting trial in France for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. What makes Krombach’s case unusual was how he came to be in the custody of French law enforcement.   Following the death of Kalinka Bamberski i...   read more