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

Hookers do have a heart of gold in Nevada, where their trade group has agreed to pay higher licensing fees to stave off budget cuts for veterans services. Lean revenues in Nye County had commissioners considering layoffs of two civil servants in t...   read more

President George W. Bush exceeded his legal authority when he instructed the National Security Agency to spy on suspected terrorists in the United States without obtaining warrants from a special federal court, according to a court ruling on Wedne...   read more

Fourteen states intend to fight the recently passed federal healthcare reform legislation in court, but in Georgia and Nevada the Democratic attorneys general are refusing to cooperate with their Republican governors’ requests to join the cause. ...   read more

With the deadline for mailing in forms having arrived, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the national response rate is down considerably from the 2000 headcount. Whereas 72% of household mailed back their census forms 10 years ago, only 54% had...   read more

The fewest number of Americans died on the nation’s roadways in 2009 since 1954, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Figures compiled by the agency show 33,963 people lost their lives last year in motor vehicle traffic...   read more

Ali Hussain Sibat, a Lebanese television host who occasionally offered predictions on his show, was scheduled to be executed in Saudi Arabia on April 2 for acts of “sorcery,” But his lawyer, May el-Khansa, has been told by a Lebanese government of...   read more

After reviewing 58 sex scandals over the past two decades involving politicians or major candidates for federal, state and local office, The Daily Beast has determined that Republicans have had more embarrassing escapades than Democrats. But what ...   read more

Supporters of the Second Amendment and the right to own guns are planning a national march on Washington, DC, scheduled for April 19. The date was chosen because it is the 235th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. However, April 1...   read more

More than two months before it became legal to accept unlimited contributions to federal independent expenditure committees, the abortion-rights advocacy group EMILY’s List reported a $175,700 donation to its 527 committee involved in the U.S. Se...   read more

Modern telecommunications and social networking websites may be contributing to the problem of global warming, claims Greenpeace.   For popular creations like Facebook or Apple’s new iPad to work, companies must rely on large data centers that h...   read more

School districts across America may now have to be more vigilant about student bullying and harassment in the wake of a landmark court case in Michigan. Hudson Area Schools has been ordered to pay a former student $800,000 for ignoring Dane Patter...   read more

After concealing highly-secretive investigations for more than 60 years, the FBI has released a small volume of documents from its little known “special file room” in Washington, DC. The room, created by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, was fi...   read more

In a ruling that has enormous implications for the biotechnology industry, a district court judge in New York threw out the patents on human genes relating to breast and ovarian cancers. Judge Robert Sweet invalidated the patents held by Myriad Ge...   read more

Lost amid the last-minute lobbying and sheer size of the healthcare reform legislation was a provision approved by Congress granting $250 million over five years for states to fund abstinence programs. Supporters of such programs have had trouble ...   read more

Contrary to its public policies that promise to focus on dangerous criminals, top officials in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service are requiring ICE agents to meet a quota of 400,000 arrests this year, indicating the agency inte...   read more

Both the State Department and its defense contractor have been faulted for problems related to the security of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Guards hired to protect the embassy were found living in crowded, unsafe conditions at Camp Olympia, ...   read more