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

Battered by disclosures of the Bush administration’s interrogation program and news of a pending investigation by a special prosecutor, the CIA decided recently to share some goods news about its work combating terrorists. In an interview with Jef...   read more

The Obama administration has managed to make the U.S. government more open and transparent, although serious concerns still exist, according to a special project involving more than 70 public interest groups.   The report published by OpenTheGov...   read more

When it comes to disposing of old merchant vessels, the U.S. government can’t even give them away. A drop in steel prices, combined with stringent environmental rules, has undercut the value of aging maritime ships in the eyes of salvage companies...   read more

American soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division raided a hospital last week looking for Taliban warriors, according to officials with the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, which runs the hospital and has been active in Afghanistan f...   read more

While American soldiers pull out from Iraq, Americans of another stripe keep arriving in country. Private security contractors from the U.S. and other countries are pouring into Iraq to take over the guarding of key installations and bases—at an e...   read more

To say that Americans are confused by the healthcare debate is an understatement. So, as the nation prepares for the next round, to be kicked off by President Obama’s speech to the Congress, I thought it might be useful to provide a beginner’s gui...   read more

The United States is indeed No. 1…when it comes to selling weapons to developing nations and throughout the entire world. Despite a global recession that has put a crimp in worldwide arms sales, business is booming for U.S. weapons manufacturers, ...   read more

According to the latest report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) on Wall Street compensation, executives of the top 20 banks that accepted federal bailout money received an average of $32 million each from 2006-2008. The same banks have be...   read more

Defiant as ever, journalist Lubna Hussein entered the courtroom on Monday in Khartoum wearing the same outfit that got her into trouble with Sudan’s Islamic government: pants. Hussein was arrested in July for wearing trousers in public, which is c...   read more

Going by the conventional definition of unemployment, the jobless rate in the U.S. stood at 9.7% in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But this figure only includes out-of-work Americans who have sought employment within the last...   read more

Growing success by Taliban forces against Western coalition tanks cannot be completely attributed to Iran’s covert assistance to insurgents in Afghanistan, but also to the United States’ earlier support for Mujahedeen fighters in the 1980s, accord...   read more

How exactly is a child supposed to do their homework when they don’t even have a home at the end of the school day? That’s the problem one million school children now face in the United States, according to data collected by the National Associati...   read more

No matter how many times Wall Street gets zapped by risky investment schemes, it seemingly has no limit for sticking its finger back into the light socket…and plugging in our fingers as well. Last year’s financial collapse triggered in large part ...   read more

PhD student Nikolas Sarris was reviewing digital reproductions of ancient manuscripts in Egypt’s St. Catherine’s Monastery when he made a startling discovery: a fragment of the world’s oldest Bible hidden beneath the binding of an 18th-century boo...   read more

Although the two countries still have not resolved the Armenian genocide issue dating back to the early 20th century, Turkey and Armenia announced last week they are working on establishing formal relations for the first time ever. After a year of...   read more

By the end of this month, when its fiscal year ends, the U.S. Postal Service will have lost $7 billion in 2008-2009, and it will need a loan from the U.S. Treasury just to pay for health benefits for retired postal workers. USPS’s cash on hand, wh...   read more