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

Putting aside the economic reality facing thousands of their constituents, eight Republican U.S. senators voted this week against the 30-day extension of unemployment benefits for Americans still looking for work. The legislation was held up prima...   read more

Accused of being behind hundreds of kidnappings and murders has not ruined Hakim al-Zamili’s chances of getting elected to Iraq’s parliament, thanks to his connections within Shiite political circles.   Al-Zamili was accused and put on trial for...   read more

Food poisoning is not taken seriously enough in the United States, contends the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts.   Some studies, such as those produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), have pegge...   read more

Facebook is not the place to post classified information about cross-boarder raids if you’re in Israel’s military. Using his cell phone, a soldier recently wrote on his Facebook page about his unit’s plans to slip into Palestinian territory, and m...   read more

As part of his efforts to rein in government spending, President Barack Obama wants to eliminate the International Labor Comparisons (ILC) office, a move that has upset unions, academics and business leaders. Costing about $2 million a year, the I...   read more

Doing business in Columbia has proven to be expensive for food company Chiquita, which has paid millions of dollars in ransoms to terrorists and now is being sued by Americans whose relatives were killed by the same groups. Chiquita’s payment of a...   read more

Accused of performing faulty electrical work that may have led to the deaths of American soldiers, defense contractor KBR should have no trouble making up for the $25 million it lost after the Department of Defense decided to withhold payment on c...   read more

Paxil, one of the nation’s leading anti-depressant medications, has cost its manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, nearly $1 billion in damages from numerous lawsuits since the drug first became available in 1992.   The review and approval process by t...   read more

Combat experience in Iraq has shaped the training and arming of American soldiers in Afghanistan, even though the aspects of warfare are noticeably different. Whereas the Army, Marines and Special Operations regularly engaged insurgents within clo...   read more

Unable to ignore the sheer number of complaints, the Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to revisit the disability claims of thousands of veterans of the Gulf War. According to advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense, more than 200,000 mil...   read more

When experts appear on any of the myriad news channels, the question not being asked is: “Who do they work for?” Increasingly, the talking heads offering their take on important political or economic matters have their own financial stakes at risk...   read more

Described by local media as “a cover-up of shocking breadth,” New Orleans police officers are now being accused by one of their own of falsifying reports and planting evidence in a post-Katrina shooting that left two citizens dead and four other...   read more

In need of extra revenue before the Great Recession hit, local governments last decade turned to banks offering interest rate swaps—described by activist Mike Elk as “the equivalent of a payday loan” for consumers short on cash—which only left cit...   read more

Zombies in Minnesota have had their day in court, and won. A group dressed up as the undead to protest “mindless” consumerism at a July 2006 festival in Minneapolis were arrested by local police for disorderly conduct, resulting in a two-night sta...   read more

Pilots of the United States’ most advanced fighter aircraft, the F-35, will wear not just any ordinary helmet. Those climbing into the cockpit will strap on their own custom-made helmet created from a laser scan of the pilot’s skull. The technolog...   read more

Thanks to a conservative shift in the U.S. Supreme Court, government regulators are now limited in enforcing the nation’s toughest water pollution law, a development that has put the drinking water of millions of Americans at risk.   An investig...   read more