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

Even with the tremendous sums spent on health care and its advances in medicine, the United States is more dangerous for women giving birth than dozens of other countries. A new report published by Amnesty International says that more than two wom...   read more

Eduardo M. Ochoa, a top administrator at Sonoma State University in California, was selected on February 23, 2010, by President Barack Obama to run the Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education, which administers most of the fede...   read more

Wary of the McCarthyism-like rhetoric leveled by Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, on the Obama administration for expressing concern about the civil liberties of suspected terrorists, Washington lawyer Lanny Davis says it’s time to bring the Pri...   read more

Legislation being fast-tracked through the U.S. Senate has been labeled a setback for protections guarding government employees who expose wrongdoing in the FBI and other national security operations.   According to the National Whistleblowers C...   read more

President Barack Obama is threatening to veto legislation that funds intelligence agencies unless Congress backs off on several fronts to expand oversight of the intelligence community.   For starters, lawmakers want to give the Government Accou...   read more

Denied the chance to bid on a lucrative security contract to train Afghanistan’s new police force, DynCorp International managed to convince the Government Accountability Office to halt the company’s rival—Xe (formerly Blackwater)—from moving forw...   read more

Suffering from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor, Joseph Casias, 29, took the advice of his doctor and started using marijuana for medicinal purposes, which is permitted under state law in Michigan after it was approved by voters in 2008....   read more

The 21st century equivalent of a chicken-in-every-pot, the Federal Communications Commission’s is spearheading President Barack Obama’s proposal to make high-speed Internet service available to all Americans. The FCC unveiled its ambitious plan th...   read more

Faulty, and in some cases falsified, forensic work by FBI experts has raised questions about the validity of 100 criminal cases in the District of Columbia since the mid-1970s.   A legal review was launched earlier this year after a DC court ove...   read more

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has drawn criticism from liberals and some legal experts for launching Liberty Central Inc., a conservative activist organization linked to the Tea Party movement.   Th...   read more

Last year may have been bad for a lot of American families struggling to survive the bad economic times, but the wealthy had no trouble rebounding from the 2008 downturn and expanding their ranks.   A survey conducted by the Spectrem Group found...   read more

The U.S. government has a long way to go before it fulfills decades-old requests for classified documents, despite the promises made by President Barack Obama to make federal agencies more open to the public.   According to The National Security...   read more

Eric Workman, the top student at Greenwood High School in Indiana, does not want the coming graduation ceremony to feature a student-led prayer, and has filed a lawsuit to stop the religious activity. Aided by the American Civil Liberties Union of...   read more

Lehman Brothers managed to conceal from the outside world a multi-billion-dollar mess that was years in the making, according to an audit investigation released last week. But the size and scope of Lehman’s manipulative accounting has led some Wal...   read more

The Senate is moving closer to reducing the disparity between jail times for cocaine and crack, but is not ready yet to equalize punishments altogether. The issue is a sensitive one because, according to recent statistics, African-Americans accoun...   read more

Not a single member of the House of Representatives objected to the impeachment of Judge G. Thomas Porteous, making him the 15th judge indicted by Congress since the founding of the country. Lawmakers voted 412-0, 410-0, 416-0 and 423-0 on the fou...   read more