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

Jack Riley, the DEA’s top official in Chicago, not only compared Guzmán to Capone, but he thinks the drug lord is more dangerous. In 1993 Guzmán was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. While in prison, he was also convicted in connection with the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo. However, after bribing several guards, Guzmán escaped from a maximum security prison on January 19, 2001.   read more

Ernest Evans (Checker’s real name) says the “Chubby Checker” app was produced made available in 2010 without first getting permission from him to use the name. The downloadable application “enables women to estimate the size of a man’s penis [Chubby] based on his shoe size,” according to the lawsuit. Actually, the Chubby Checker app sold only 84 downloads before it was removed from Palm and Hewlett-Packard listings in September 2012.   read more

First elected to the Parti Lepep Central Committee in 2005, and re-elected in January 2012, from 2007 to mid-2012, Potter was Leader of Government Business in Parliament. She caused a stir in September 2010 when she stated that some members of the Parti Lepep did not have sufficient education or technical knowledge to understand the content and meaning of bills placed before them.   read more

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) shut down the foreclosure review by independent consultants—which had already cost about $2 billion— after it was revealed that the banks had selected said consultants. Instead of federal regulators doing the work, they are trusting the financial institutions, including Bank of America and Wells Fargo, to do it.   read more

The union wants to know what the FDA’s inspector general said in an internal report about defibrillator devices manufactured and sold by St. Jude Medical (SJM). When labor officials received a copy of the report, “almost every portion” of the document had portions blacked out. The company stopped selling the devices in December 2010 due to safety concerns, but more than 79,000 people in the U.S. and 49,000 abroad still have the implants.   read more

Among the factors deemed worthy of further research were: • Alcohol intake • Insufficient physical activity • Weight gain in adulthood • Night shift work • Exposure to pesticides • Exposure to industrial pollutants • Radiation from medical and non-medical sources • Exposure to light at night • Family, community and social influences.   read more

Niccolò Pollari was sentenced to 10 years in prison for complicity in the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) abduction of Abu Omar (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr). His former deputy, Marco Mancini, received nine years, and three Italian secret service officials were sentenced to six years each.   read more

There isn’t much to like about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, says Dick Cheney, except for when it comes to killing terrorists with drones. In an interview with CBS, the former vice president said that Obama’s drone program was the only part of Obama’s overseas strategy that he agrees with. Cheney went so far as to say it was a “good policy.”   read more

Since February 2009, he has been professor of National Governance at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He published a book in 2008, America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers, in which he called the Iraq War one of the five biggest blunders in U.S. history and criticized George W. Bush's foreign policy as “reckless,” and “a ping pong game with American lives.” Hagel is co-chairman of President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board.   read more

Three years ago, the EPA seemed poised to act against hexavalent chromium after experts concluded that even trace amounts in tap water could cause cancer. But then the American Chemistry Council (ACC)—the chemical industry’s trade association and chief lobbyist—urged the EPA to wait for more research, which the agency ultimately decided to do, delaying any decision another four years.   read more

It has been five years since the State Department had a permanent IG, leaving the office in the hands of deputy inspector general Harold W. Geisel. No other agency in the federal government has had an inspector general vacancy as long as the State Department has. The last State Department IG, Howard Krongard, resigned effective January 15, 2008, after allegations that he had blocked investigations into Iraq-related contract fraud and alleged arms smuggling by Blackwater Worldwide (now Academi).   read more

The FTC found that about 20% of consumers have an error on at least one of their three credit reports. The consumer credit rating business is dominated by three players: Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. Federal regulators also found that 5% of consumers have credit-report errors that could result in them having to pay more for financial products, such as auto loans and insurance.   read more

Navy Captain Thomas J. Welsh, Guantánamo’s staff judge advocate, told The Washington Post that the microphones were placed inside devices that look like smoke detectors in rooms where attorney-client meetings take place. In addition, Maurice Elkins, director of courtroom technology at the base, testified that 32 mikes were used to monitor legal hearings even when public microphones were muted.   read more

Perhaps the most high-profile concern in this arena is President Obama’s nomination of Mary Jo White to become the new SEC chief. During her most recent job at the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, White’s clients included JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Verizon Communications, former Bank of America chief executive Kenneth Lewis, and Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs board member convicted of insider trading.   read more

Of the 12,000 students taken from school to jail by police in 2012, 67% were accused of misdemeanors, such as disorderly conduct. Oftentimes, disorderly conduct amounts to little more than a student disobeying a teacher’s order to put away a cell phone or stop talking in class. It was also found that African-American and disabled students were arrested disproportionately in number.   read more

The researchers said two organizations most identified with the modern tea party, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, received large amounts of money from Big Tobacco. In fact, before they became separate organizations, they were part of a single entity called Citizens for a Sound Economy, which was co-founded in the 1980s by billionaire David Koch.   read more