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

Military commanders have instructed soldiers in parts of Iraq and Afghanistan to take off their body armor when meeting with local civilians so they come across as less threatening. But the tactic has left American personnel vulnerable to attacks,...   read more

Jesus Christ and his disciples are eating better these days. A review of historical depictions of the famous Last Supper shows considerable increase in the amount of food presented to Jesus and his dinner guests, according to a research team from ...   read more

Bad economic times did not lead to a rise in bank robberies during 2009, according to the FBI. The bureau’s latest statistics reveal there were 5,943 robberies, 100 burglaries, 19 larcenies, and three extortions of banks last year, for a total of ...   read more

Police, firefighters and other rescuers who worked at Ground Zero following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, deserve a better settlement than was negotiated on their behalf, says U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. ...   read more

In an attempt to stop hemorrhaging money, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) wants to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. But first Postmaster General John Potter must win the support of the USPS board of directors, the Postal Regulatory Commission and ...   read more

The U.S. Navy Veterans Association, a national non-profit that claims to be dedicated to helping naval veterans, has come under suspicion as a result of a six-month investigation by the St. Petersburg Times. Unable to get answers from the organiza...   read more

In preparation for the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Chinese government has issued a harsh set of restrictions to China’s media. According to The New York Times, t...   read more

With fewer and fewer Americans willing to identify themselves as members of the Republican Party, it’s time to change the name, argues conservative Myra Adams. Instead of the Republican Party or the GOP, the political party should reflect its phil...   read more

Ruth Y. Goldway has the distinction of being the longest-serving presidential appointee currently in Washington. She was first appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998 to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s predecessor (the Postal Rate Commissio...   read more

More than 500 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have reported illnesses that they blame on the open-pit burning of toxic waste by the military and defense contractors. The numbers were compiled by Disabled American Veterans, a nationa...   read more

Henry Watkins “Hank” Skinner is scheduled to be executed on March 24 in Texas for the New Year’s Eve 1993 murders of his girlfriend and her two grown sons. But Northwestern University Journalism School’s Medill Innocence Project contends there are...   read more

Calling the current state of the housing industry a “construction depression,” the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has released another sobering set of statistics showing how bad things are for the economy. Construction, one of th...   read more

Warlocks, the jamming technology used by the U.S. military to thwart roadside bombs in Afghanistan, fell into the hands of the Taliban more than two years ago, according to an Army intelligence document obtained by WikiLeaks. The equipment may hav...   read more

Built to draw attention to the problem of plastic pollution, the 60-foot sailboat Plastiki set sail Saturday on an 11,000-mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia. The unusual boat was built almost entirely out of plastic, including 12,...   read more

The Federal Reserve has now lost two legal decisions in its effort to prevent the release of records showing which banks borrowed from the national bank’s discount window during the financial crisis of 2008. Bloomberg News and Fox Business Network...   read more

If the successful development of an independent, effective and trustworthy police force in Afghanistan is key to the U.S. pulling out of the country, American troops have a long wait ahead of them. An investigation by ProPublica and Newsweek has r...   read more