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

Political asylum, normally reserved for immigrants fleeing torture, imprisonment or threats of deaths, has been awarded to a German family wanting to home-school their children. Near the end of January, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, along with their ...   read more

The Department of Defense under President George W. Bush carried out illegal spying on numerous American organizations, including Planned Parenthood. This revelation surfaced after the Electronic Freedom Foundation received more than 800 heavily-r...   read more

Serving in the U.S. armed forces really isn’t so bad from a financial standpoint, according to Carlton Meyer, a former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Contrary to popular myth about low wages in the military, soldiers today can easily out-earn t...   read more

When the last massive solar storm struck earth, modern civilization was without the electronic- and wireless-based communications that are now so critical to day-to-day living. Researchers recently conducted a simulation to see how countries might...   read more

Combined with an earlier court decision, the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that lifted restrictions on corporate and union donations may also lead to these powerful interests contributing for and against campaigns without disclosing their parti...   read more

After Andrew Joseph Stack III committed suicide by flying his plane into a federal building in Austin, Texas, on February 18, the media gave him a lot of coverage, and some people even labeled him a hero for his violent attack on the Internal Reve...   read more

Military and civilian personnel will soon be able to access social networking websites from the Department of Defense’s non-classified computer network, according to a new policy. The Pentagon has decided to allow soldiers, as well as civilian wor...   read more

Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts want to build a plant that can convert coal into fertilizer and have deliberately chosen the name of a Dr. Seuss character known for its eco-friendly association to brand the industrial operation. But the attorney fo...   read more

Described as a once in a half century event by scientists, an enormous iceberg smashed into a peninsula of ice in Antarctica, causing the protruding ice shelf to break off and become an iceberg the size of Luxembourg. The now free-floating iceberg...   read more

Emails discussing the early development of the Bush administration’s use of torture against detainees were deleted several years ago by a key Department of Justice (DOJ) official, prompting the National Archives and Records Administration and othe...   read more

Although the timing is not ideal from a seller’s standpoint, California is looking to unload two dozen state office buildings in order to pay off some of the state’s long-term debt. Among the buildings going up for sale is the twin-towered Ronald ...   read more

Efforts by the U.S. Census Bureau to encourage Americans to participate in this year’s national headcount include paying a fortune cookie company to print promotional messages on those tiny slips of wonder that come with plates of fried rice. For ...   read more

After learning that the Department of Veterans Affairs was under-diagnosing cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among soldiers, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sought documents from the age...   read more

Another subsidiary of CBS has demonstrated again the recent rightward tilt of the broadcast network corporation. CBS Outdoor is allowing right-to-life groups to display controversial messages on billboards in Atlanta that claim African-American ch...   read more

One year into the Obama administration and gun rights advocates have had little to fear. In fact, movements are underway across the country to adopt legislation aiding those who own firearms, contrary to fearful predictions early last year that th...   read more

Somehow, in spite of a fumbling economy and high unemployment, Wall Street bonuses are on the rise again.   Five years ago securities and investment firms paid out a record total of $25.6 billion in compensation. The 2009 mark is lower, but with...   read more