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

New York State’s new banking regulator has made enemies in Washington after it went solo in going after a London-based bank caught laundering money for Iran.   Benjamin Lawsky, the head of the recently created New York State Department of Financ...   read more

Google has agreed to pay a record fine of $22.5 million for creating Internet programming that circumvented anti-tracking settings on computers and smart phones.   The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered the fine after Google’s cookie scheme,...   read more

From “too big to fail” to “too big to prosecute,” Wall Street investment banking firm Goldman Sachs— whose deceptive behavior to its own investors was found by a bipartisan Senate investigation to have contributed to the 2008 financial meltdown th...   read more

With the drought of 2012 — already the worst in the U.S. since the 1950s — expected to cause dramatically smaller corn and soybean crops, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has called on the U.S. to suspend the use of corn...   read more

The state of Utah is on the hook to pay more than $5 million to those running a multi-million dollar trust for polygamists.   Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lost control of their $110 million trust to t...   read more

The American South is a region of many traditions, among the most durable of which is hostility to government programs to protect the environment and public health. The consequences of that tradition are laid bare in a report released Thursday by ...   read more

Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs: Who Is Kevin Washburn?   On August 2, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated a law professor with experience in American Indian law and gambling law to succeed Larry EchoHawk as Assistant S...   read more

More than 50 years after it first sprayed Agent Orange in Vietnam, the U.S. government has started a program to help clean up a small portion of the contamination it caused during the war.   The Obama administration plans to spend $43 million ov...   read more

In the wake of the dismissal of Lieutenant General Patrick O’Reilly as head of the Missile Defense Agency for outrageously abusive conduct toward his staff, President Barack Obama has nominated Rear Admiral James D. Syring to be promoted to Vice A...   read more

Millionaires seeking to avoid France’s new income tax bracket can either relocate across the channel to England, or all the way across the Atlantic to Mississippi.   After French President Francois Hollande proposed a 75% tax on all income in ex...   read more

After years of warnings by environmentalists to do something about the radioactive waste piling up at nuclear power plants around the country, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has stopped issuing any licenses for new and existing reactors w...   read more

As if farmers weren’t having enough troubles from the severe drought affecting much of the United States, agricultural-biotechnology giant Monsanto has added to the suffering through one its genetically engineered creations.   Corn modified with...   read more

The private security firm formerly known as Blackwater, which is now on its third corporate name, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $7.5 million to avoid going to trial on weapons-related and other charges.   The company, which went from Bla...   read more

Foreign subsidiaries of Pfizer spent years bribing foreign doctors and healthcare officials to expand sales of the company’s pharmaceuticals, according to a $60 million settlement reached with the U.S. government.   The deal, brokered by the Sec...   read more

A federal appeals court this week threw out an Islamic foundation’s million-dollar judgment against the federal government for illegally spying on it.   The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation was awarded $2.5 million in 2010 by Judge Vaughn Walker, ...   read more

Segregation is back in the United States, thanks to the growing problem of income inequality.   Increasingly, neighborhoods in American cities are becoming segregated from one another by differences in household earnings, according to a new stud...   read more