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

Stretching nearly a half mile into the sky, the world’s tallest building will be officially unveiled Monday (January 4) in Dubai, where the sheikdom is trying to pay off mammoth debts incurred in part from just such ambitious real estate ventures....   read more

Legislation intended to reform Wall Street and protect consumers is currently waddling along in the House of Representatives, moving as best a 1,200-page document can. Bloomberg columnist David Reilly decided to read all of HR 4173 (the “Wall Stre...   read more

Demonstrating the financial industry isn’t entirely back on its feet again, GMAC, the finance branch of General Motors, came under the control of the federal government just before New Year’s, as Washington pumped another $3.8 billion into the stu...   read more

Washington’s generosity towards Israel has amounted to $3 billion a year in military aid since 1985, and extends even further back to the mid-20th century. According to a Congressional Research Service report, no other country has received more fo...   read more

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress began to make preparations for meeting remotely in the event of another threat to the nation’s capital. But even without a crisis, would having an e-Congress be so bad, asks Conor Friedersdorf at AOL’s...   read more

Solving the problem of global warming requires discarding the cap-and-trade policy currently popular with public officials and going instead with something called fee-and-dividend, says scientist James Hansen, the director of the NASA Goddard Inst...   read more

According to his own campaign manager, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) lost the 2008 presidential contest because he was on the wrong side of the Wall Street debacle, siding with the pro-business philosophies that helped create the mess. Now, the ...   read more

Sounding like a character from the film Armageddon, Russia’s leading space official, Anatoly Perminov, warned this week that action must be taken to keep an asteroid from striking the earth in 2036. Perminov said “lives are at stake” unless Russi...   read more

Immigrants fleeing torture or persecution no longer will spend indefinite incarceration in American immigration centers, thanks to a change in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration re...   read more

Fear over the spread of germs has brought modern technology to the centuries-old practice of dispensing communion wafers during Catholic services—and resulted in litigation as well. Nu-Life Products, a Minnesota-based company, created a hand-held ...   read more

How many walls does it take to eliminate the light bulb? Just one, as long as it’s glowing.   Lomox, a company based in Wales in the United Kingdom, is developing the first glowing wall that will discard the need for lighting fixtures through th...   read more

Federal law permits businesses to pay employees who are mentally retarded pennies an hour, a reality that has sparked a new debate at care homes in Iowa. An investigation by the Des Moines Register discovered that more than 300 mentally disabled p...   read more

The implosion of Wall Street last year didn’t come about overnight. It took years of risky investments and questionable decision-making, during which the heads of leading firms and banks earned substantial fortunes. From 2000-2007 these leaders ma...   read more

NASA has a date and a budget for its next New Frontiers mission, but no destination just yet. The space agency does have three possible choices in mind and will decide sometime after 2010 whether to send an unmanned probe to the moon, Venus or an ...   read more

A California appellate court has ruled the state’s anti-toxic chemicals law, Proposition 65, cannot be used to require labeling of meat approved by the federal government. The ruling came about after the American Meat Institute and National Meat A...   read more

Advocates of solar power are arguing that if the federal government stopped subsidizing the oil and gas industry, energy derived from the sun could furnace 15% of America’s power needs within 10 years. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA...   read more