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

Nuclear power can’t seem to escape the word “risk” even when new technologies offer promises of safer reactor designs. Because of its reputation as a dangerous source of power, efforts to develop new power plants come with considerable financial r...   read more

Prior the Wall Street collapse of 2008, Commerzbank of Germany informed employees of how much they could expect their bonuses to be at the end of the year, which amounted to $500 million in total. But Commerzbank’s profits nosedived after the fina...   read more

Following congressional orders adopted in the credit card reform bill of last year, the Federal Trade Commission has issued new rules to limit offers that try to con consumers to pay for allegedly free credit reports. As of April 1, businesses adv...   read more

More than half of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is made up of private contractors, a revelation that produced shock among the Senate committee that oversees the agency. Of the 388,000 people working for DHS, over 200,000 are private wo...   read more

If the United States really wants to help earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken Haiti, it can do more than just send emergency relief, says foreign policy analyst Robert Naiman. Washington could use its influence to convince the Haitian govern...   read more

For the first time in almost 40 years, a political prisoner in Cuba has died from a hunger strike. Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a 42-year-old plumber and bricklayer, was arrested in 2003 for his participation in several dissident groups. He began a hung...   read more

As if existing air and water pollution aren’t enough to worry about for countries like China, India and others, waste from consumer and home electronics is threatening to become a huge problem unto itself. A new report from the United Nations Envi...   read more

Unless Congress decides to overrule the Department of Defense, women will finally be cleared to serve on nuclear submarines in about a month. The change follows an announcement last fall by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf...   read more

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is not a fan of peace, love and understanding when it comes to America’s NATO allies. Coming only days after one European country announced its plans to pull troops out of Afghanistan, Gates complained about ...   read more

For once it’s not just Republicans accused of being obstructionists. Democrats in the House are fed up with their counterparts in the Senate as much as the GOP over the fact that nearly 300 bills are stalled in the upper house. While House Speaker...   read more

Has South Park’s bad boy Eric Cartman pulled off his ultimate stunt? According to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee into the not-so-funny antics of security contractor Xe (formerly Blackwater) in Afghanistan, the company has ...   read more

What’s been a nightmare for Toyota executives might prove to be freedom for Koua Fong Lee. The Hmong refugee from Laos was living in Minnesota in June 2006 and returning from church with his pregnant wife, his small child and other members of his ...   read more

Immigrants in the U.S. who send money to their home countries not only help foreign economies but American businesses as well. The Immigration Policy Center has produced a new study that refutes the notion that remittances are bad for the U.S. eco...   read more

Two years before the CIA destroyed its tapes showing the torture of two detainees, the agency informed Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee , of its plans—to which the conservative lawmaker agreed. This...   read more

Banks are determined not to lose billions of dollars from overdraft fees despite the financial industry reforms adopted last year by Congress. Even though lawmakers have restricted the imposition of such fees on consumers who exceed their account ...   read more

A strong majority of those running specialized medical residency programs that train new doctors think it’s a bad idea to cut deals with the pharmaceutical industry. But many of these very same administrators do so anyway because they can’t bring ...   read more