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

Representing the largest mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia’s history, the Spruce No. 1 coal mine project came to a halt this week after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) vetoed a Clean Water Act permit. EPA officials had ...   read more

Back during the Cold War when Germany was still divided, government officials in West Germany looked forward to the regularly updated “joke report.” This collection of jokes told among those living in East Germany was gathered by West German spi...   read more

Washington’s response to the economic crisis that began last year has done little to help the average American get going again, but it has helped some of Wall Street’s most powerful institutions become stronger than ever. Reducing interest rates t...   read more

During his first nine months in office in 2001, President George W. Bush had nominated 95 judges to the federal bench. President Barack Obama? Just 23. And only three of these have been confirmed by the Senate…including Supreme Court Justice Sonia...   read more

Sniper teams from across the United States and overseas have converged at Fort Benning, Georgia, to determine the world’s best marksmen. The Ninth Annual U.S. Army International Sniper Competition has attracted 31 teams, including those from the ...   read more

When the new 4th District Court of Appeal building was completed in Santa Ana, California, Justice Eileen Moore was given the task of acquiring art for the courthouse. The problem was that she was not given a budget to do so. She tried getting ar...   read more

One upping the French, Finland has become the first nation to declare high-speed Internet access a right of all its people. While France was the first country in the world to establish the right of accessing the Web, the Finns have made history by...   read more

Change has not come to the Treasury Department which, like previous Washington administrations, is filled with former Wall Street high flyers. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s inner circle includes Gene Sperling, who earned more than $1 milli...   read more

When the Defense Department first submitted its budget request to fund American military propaganda campaigns, it asked Congress for $988 million. After the House chopped the budget in half, Pentagon officials begged lawmakers to reconsider—and ad...   read more

With local government budgets getting squeezed tighter and tighter, officials in Miami-Dade County, Florida, are considering whether to decriminalize minor offenses that often are dismissed by the courts. A total of 18 minor infractions are curren...   read more

A consumer advocate is suing Delta Air Lines for allegedly hacking computer information she was compiling to win passage of an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights in Congress. Kathleen Hanni, founder of Flyersrights.org, says the computer infiltratio...   read more

Despite the presence of a mixed-race president in the White House, Keith Bardwell believes interracial marriages are a bad idea because of how children from such unions can be mistreated by society. So the justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Paris...   read more

From a purely fiscal advantage, it’s not difficult to understand why some in Washington are calling for a shift in war policy in Afghanistan and placing the onus on the Afghan army instead of America’s sophisticated, and expensive, military. The D...   read more

President Barack Obama has said he wants to create a new consumer protection agency that will regulate the financial industry when it comes to credit cards, insurance and mortgages. But this new government body can only be created with help from C...   read more

The U.S. military has been banning media traveling with soldiers in eastern Afghanistan from taking photos or video of American soldiers killed in action. The change in policy was quietly implemented in early September following the controversial ...   read more

It was all so unnecessary, it turns out. Those wasted seconds, collectively adding up to hours and days, typing in the two forward slashes (“//”) as part of website addresses. That’s what Internet guru Tim Berners-Lee has to say now, looking back ...   read more