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

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have been accused of ignoring warnings about the overuse of CT scans to check for colon cancer. Government experts have waited for a year for the FDA to respond to concerns presented to the agency, bu...   read more

Lawmakers in Congress are beginning to grow concerned over the amount of cash being distributed by American military commanders in war zones. Provided so the military can make friends with local citizens and help struggling economies, the amount o...   read more

Islam Siddiqui’s recess appointment as chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has sparked considerable opposition from environmentalists and organic farmers. Siddiqui served as vice president for science and r...   read more

Ships entering the waters of Canada and the United States soon will have to use cleaner-burning fuel for their engines in order to cut down on the air pollution they produce in North America. Pushed by the American and Canadian governments, the In...   read more

By returning to the strategy employed by a conservative icon, President Barack Obama could impose a liberal tax policy, writes Gerald Scorse, a member of the advocacy group, Responsible Wealth.   Scorse argues that Obama could pay for most of th...   read more

Following on the heels of the Citizens United decision that expanded political contributions by corporations and unions, a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has decided that the government cannot limit donations to independent political gr...   read more

The Department of the Interior has decided to turn over to Indian tribes and Native Hawaiians the human remains and artifacts currently in possession of museums and natural history collections. Taking effect May 14, the decision includes remains t...   read more

Germany’s government is planning to tax banks in order to discourage risky investment behavior and to create a reserve to fund future bailouts. The proposal comes after the country spent €500 billion ($679 billion) to rescue its financial industry...   read more

A 30-year failure to develop a permanent site for storing nuclear waste has cost the federal government billions of dollars in fines paid to power companies. After putting all of its hopes in the Yucca Mountain repository, Washington now is starti...   read more

After enduring the murders of his children by his wife in February 2007, Bouchaib Moqadem of Belgium is now being asked to pay for the prosecution of his wife, Genevieve Lhermitte. The government spent 72,743 euros ($97,000) to convict Lhermitte o...   read more

The tax news has been all good lately for some of the nation’s leading banks. First, JPMorgan Chase found out it will receive a fat refund from the federal government, and now Bank of America and Wells Fargo won’t have to pay federal income taxes ...   read more

For $5 million the Department of Defense got 43 minutes of work—a month—out of each mechanic hired by defense contractor KBR Inc. to repair vehicles at Joint Base Balad near Baghdad, Iraq. This enormous waste of taxpayer dollars was uncovered by t...   read more

More than four million prescriptions were filled last year for nitroglycerin tablets that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This represents 80% of all under-the-tongue nitroglycerin prescriptions. But the FDA is now dem...   read more

Florida has earned a reputation for relying on “cash register justice” to help pay for its court system, according to a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law. What this amounts to is individuals—both t...   read more

Despite having a reputation for traffic congestion, Los Angeles managed to land only one freeway among the 10 worst bottlenecks in the United States. According to INRIX’s annual traffic scorecard, New York City has the highest number of the most t...   read more

Michael Chertoff, the former homeland security chief who’s not been shy about exploiting terrorist threats for the benefit of his clients, has decided to join a top defense contractor that defrauded the U.S. government.   The one-time head of th...   read more