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

Deciding a big loss is better than a complete loss, the Department of the Treasury chose to buy shares of Midwest Banc Holdings at above market value in order to keep the ailing institution from sliding even further into trouble. The U.S. governme...   read more

It is for good reason that there are laws on the books preventing people from buying and selling organs in the United States, writes Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune. But concerns about ghoulish markets developing around dying patients should ...   read more

When is a city not a city? When the media actually does its homework and stops taking the Department of Defense at its word.   In February, the U.S. and NATO allies launched a major offensive against the Taliban, during which troops had the task...   read more

It’s okay to use the expressions “In God We Trust” on American currency and “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate court rejected arguments by attorney and atheist Michael Newdow, wh...   read more

It used to be the only Americans not required to pay income taxes were the poor. But thanks to changes in federal law since the early 1990s, a growing number of the middle-class have had no income tax obligation—meaning they get everything back fr...   read more

What does Germany have to hide by keeping secret the files on one of the Nazis’ most notorious leaders? Possibly details about how the Germans and other Europeans helped Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann flee the country after the end of World Wa...   read more

The Justice Department is investigating Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology company that dominates much of the seed market, to see if it has violated federal antitrust laws. Enormous jumps in the cost of seeds prompted Justice officials to be...   read more

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is getting too expensive for its own good. The combat aircraft was supposed to cost $50 million per plane to produce, according to the Department of Defense in 2001 when it said it planned to buy 2,852 of them. Now, t...   read more

Prison officials in Ohio prevented convicted killer Lawrence Reynolds from taking his own life, and are now nursing him back to health so they can execute him. Reynolds took an overdose of prescription drugs just prior to his execution date. After...   read more

The Chief Information Officers Council, tasked with bolstering the federal government’s IT needs, does a lousy job of preserving emails for federal offices, according to the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The governmen...   read more

Americans could stand to lose a few pounds in parts of Alabama and California, while Colorado has demonstrated itself to be quite lean when it comes to obesity. Gallup and Healthways teamed up to examine body mass index data and figure out which p...   read more

Adding tens of thousands of American troops to Afghanistan this year will still leave some provinces short on help, even in areas where the Taliban is well established. Abdul Qayoom Khan, governor of Zabul province, has begged for more U.S. soldie...   read more

Between enormous expenditures and sagging revenues, the U.S. government in February managed to enlarge the deficit by $1 million every 11 seconds. February went down as the worst ever for monthly shortfalls, at $220.9 billion. This total was 14% h...   read more

The auto industry has benefited mightily from hiring almost three dozen former government officials whose jobs were to regulate car manufacturers. An investigation by The Washington Post revealed that 33 ex-employees of the National Highway Traffi...   read more

Seeking to bolster Congress’ miserable public image, House Democrats have proposed banning earmarks—the allocation of federal dollars to specific projects or recipients without a public hearing—to private businesses. Democrats want to demonstrate ...   read more

Six members of the legislature from Pakistan, invited to visit the United States by the State Deparatment, left the country early because they refused to go through additional screening at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC.   The ...   read more