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

For those selling illegal narcotics and in need of spiritual protection, there is Jesús Malverde. Considered the patron saint of drug traffickers in Mexico, Malverde was said to be a construction or railroad worker who lived in the late 19th and e...   read more

Using data filed with the Federal Election Commission, Adam Bonica at Ideological Cartography has charted patterns that claim to show where certain occupations fall within the left-right political dynamic. Campaign donations of $250 or greater req...   read more

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft will continue to be vulnerable to lawsuits directed at him for his alleged misuse of the material witness statute that involved arresting Arabs and Muslims after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The Ninth...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has convinced Wachovia bank to pay the government $160 million for allowing its foreign exchange houses in Mexico to launder drug money.   Wachovia, now owned by Wells Fargo, admitted to permitting $110 million to ...   read more

U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal has talked the talk since taking over the military operation in Afghanistan, but can he walk the walk? With thousands of Afghan civilians having died over the years, the U.S. impressed upon McChrystal when he t...   read more

In a story about ongoing computer problems at the Secret Service, ABC News remarked that the agency lagged behind the rest of the federal government, which had modernized its computer systems. On the contrary, the Secret Service is not alone, and,...   read more

Oil company Stanley Energy wants to drill for petroleum in Bridger-Teton National Forest, located in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Having lost the leases it gained from the Bush administration in 2005 and 2006, Stanley Energy is now ...   read more

Former political mistress Rielle Hunter and ex-model Irina Krupnik are not happy about their public photos. Hunter, who had an affair with Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, posed for photos accompanying her interview with GQ, and she...   read more

With so much news about homosexual Catholic priests molesting young boys, it is worth noting that some priests who break their vows still go in for heterosexual sex, a fact that brought great trauma to one parishioner in Georgia when he and his ch...   read more

Despite representing districts where at least one-in-four constituents lack health insurance, 14 members of Congress plan to oppose the health care reform bill in the House. The group is dominated by Republican lawmakers from Florida and Texas, so...   read more

In an industry where rescission—scheming to cancel the coverage of the seriously ill—is commonplace, Fortis/Assurant Health managed to do something other insurance companies hadn’t: specifically target people with HIV. Following a South Carolina...   read more

Next to President Barack Obama, there may not be a bigger basketball fan in the current administration than Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. But education comes first for the former college and professional player who says the NCAA should ban c...   read more

JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank find themselves facing lawsuits on both sides of the Atlantic over their financial strategies that helped cripple the financial industry in the United States and Italy.   In San Francisco, the local Federal Home ...   read more

Funding for special education isn’t considered special by many school districts in New Jersey, which have redirected millions of dollars to other, general education programs. An investigation by the Asbury Park Press discovered school districts in...   read more

Despite public assurances from President Hamid Karzai that it would not become law, a blanket amnesty for all war crimes committed in Afghanistan prior to 2001 has indeed gone into effect.   Adopted by parliament in 2007, the National Stability ...   read more

The United States military may be one of the finest in the world, but it’s not very efficient when it comes to buying weapons. A study of the 33 leading armed nations conducted by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. found the U.S. tied with Austral...   read more