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

Congress and a federal anti-toxics office are continuing to investigate the controversy of contaminated water at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where numerous military and civilian personnel have contracted various forms of...   read more

Having received thousands of dollars in contributions from the $6.5 billion-a-year payday lending industry, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) has worked to keep payday lenders out of new legislation that seeks to crack down on the financial in...   read more

As head of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical company, Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler has lobbied long and hard on behalf of his corporation, and been handsomely rewarded for his efforts. Kindler earned a 12.5% pay increase, elevating his salary to $1.8...   read more

The U.S. military keeps plastic surgeons on the payroll to help restore those soldiers badly wounded during their service. But in some cases the doctors are performing cosmetic surgeries and letting the government pay for it.   According to Star...   read more

If at first you don’t succeed, sue, sue again. That’s what residents of Gentry County, Missouri, did after owners of a hog farm failed to do anything to mitigate the terrible odor emanating from their property. In 1999, a group of 52 plaintiffs,...   read more

Gospel recording label Habakkuk Music delayed payment of a $30,000 advance to singer Isaiah D. Thomas because God had not told company executives when to proceed. Thomas is now suing Habakkuk and its owner, April Washington-Essex, who reportedly i...   read more

The U.S. Army doesn’t want it, but the Department of Defense is saying: Yes, you do. The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) would be scuttled if Army commanders had their way, saying the missile defense program is too costly to develop, wi...   read more

Switzerland-based agribusiness Syngenta AG is being sued by 16 American cities and one county water district over the contamination of water supplies by the weed-killer atrazine. The chemical, sprayed on corn fields in the Midwest, has found its w...   read more

Following the Department of Justice’s November 2008 raid of the Washington lobbying firm, the PMA Group, the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) investigated accusations that several lawmakers accepted campaign contributions in exchan...   read more

Two separate media sources have turned up accusations of New York City police using quotas to make arrests or manipulating records to show crime has gone down. WABC-TV interviewed police officer Adil Polanco, who said precinct commanders have pres...   read more

After eight years of complaints, Brazil is now threatening to impose stiff trade sanctions against the United States over U.S. subsidizing of cotton production. Brazil has appealed to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which first ruled that the ...   read more

After U.S. forces pushed the Taliban out of the southern Afghanistan town of Marja, Afghan officials installed Abdul Zahir Aryan to serve as the local representative of the government. Zahir’s job is to demonstrate to locals that siding with Kabul...   read more

It is possible to get criminals out of prison and keep them from returning to a life of crime, argue reformers calling for changes in prison sentencing. A new report from The Sentencing Project cites statistics from four states where lawmakers and...   read more

From banks to email programs, website developers need to create more complex security questions so users avoid the danger of identity theft. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh found that current schemes used...   read more

Disabled people trapped within their bodies now can communicate with the outside world via the first commercially available brain-operated computer. The Intendix, developed by Guger Technologies, allows those suffering from locked-in syndrome or s...   read more

Susan McBride, a civil servant in Detroit, won a $100,000 settlement from the city after officials failed to accommodate her allergy to perfume. McBride complained to superiors about a coworker’s perfume, claiming the smell made it difficult for h...   read more