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

Two Americans who claim they were tortured in Iraq have been allowed to move forward with their lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel say they were detained and interrogated in 2006 while working f...   read more

With HIV/AIDS infections reaching epidemic proportions, the District of Columbia has become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms. The city plans to make 500,000 available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high sc...   read more

Washington has not put its money where its mouth is when it comes to isolating Iran. Multiple presidential administrations have decried the policies of the Tehran government, especially its efforts to develop nuclear weapons, but the U.S. governme...   read more

United Kingdom-based defense contractor BAE Systems has pled guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of defrauding the government and trying to cover up its illegal activities. The company has agreed to pay $400 million, one of the largest crimina...   read more

In recent years there has been a growing movement to grant veterans special treatment within the American legal system. In January 2008 this resulted in the first veterans' court in Buffalo, NY. Since then, 22 other cities and counties have also b...   read more

For five decades the federal government has stuck with the same definition for what constitutes poverty. But the Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama has decided to use a new set of variables to compliment the existing method that d...   read more

Twenty three years after the federal government targeted it as the nation’s underground dump for nuclear waste, Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is headed for closure. President Barack Obama followed through on his campaign promise to shut down the controv...   read more

Even when awarding contracts to companies without competitive bidding, federal agencies are supposed to follow certain rules and guidelines. But that has not been the case at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which gave out $3.4 billion i...   read more

Switzerland is big on animal rights, so much so that voters today cast their ballots on whether the government should provide lawyers to animals that have been abused. Backers of the measure, which received 144,000 signatures to get on the ballot,...   read more

In compliance with the reform legislation adopted last year by Congress, the Federal Reserve board is proposing new rules to limit credit card issuers from unloading “unreasonable” late payments on consumers and hiking interest rates. Fed official...   read more

Karol Cabrera, a controversial journalist in Honduras, survived an assassination attempt last week that took place while she conducted a radio interview via phone in the capital of Tegucigalpa. Cabrera was traveling by car with Joseph Hernández Oc...   read more

Valued at $5 million, the September 2009 purchase of Premier Election Solutions Inc. by Election Systems & Software Inc. (ES&S) was not something that immediately captured headlines. But what the deal lacked in purchase price, it made up for in c...   read more

Estimates for the civilian casualty rate in Pakistan from U.S. drone attacks have varied widely depending on the source, according to the New America Foundation. The rate at which non-militants have died or been injured in aerial assaults by Preda...   read more

Insisting science has eliminated the need for sexual orientation-profiling when it comes to blood donations, 18 U.S. senators have asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to eliminate the ban on homosexuals giving blood. The government impose...   read more

Breasts, even those made of snow and shaped in the figure of famous artwork, were too much for one New Jersey community to handle. Rahway, New Jersey, police told Maria Conneran and her family that the snow woman they built in their front yard, wh...   read more

More than one million taxpayers did not file returns with the IRS in 2006, leaving the government sitting on more than $1.3 billion worth of possible refunds. Americans who did not file four years ago can still send in their returns, but they must...   read more