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

To say fundraising this election is being dominated by the 1% would be a gross overestimation. The actual number is more like .0000063%. Super PACs, the most talked about aspect so far of the 2012 campaign, received nearly 80% of their individual ...   read more

Despite being propelled to victory by progressive supporters critical of the Bush administration’s record on civil liberties, President Barack Obama has directed the Justice Department to defend many of the policies of George W. Bush, including wa...   read more

With the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq in December and an exit from Afghanistan planned for 2013, many Americans are hoping that President Obama’s State of the Union promise of a large “peace dividend” will help lift the country o...   read more

The U.S. Department of Transportation and one of its agencies is being sued by the city of San Francisco for the deadly gas pipeline explosion that occurred two years ago.   According to its lawsuit, the city claims the department’s Pipeline and...   read more

The federal government went too far in shielding an FBI informant from the 1970s through the 1990s, not only tipping him off about state and local police investigations, but even covering up his involvement in several murders. Last week a three-ju...   read more

Sometimes a picture does say a thousand words, and the hearing chaired last week by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California) was such a time. The hearing, prompted by a White House announcement of a compromise rule requiring health insurance compan...   read more

In the early days of the computer industry, companies like Texas Instruments and Intel were racing to become the first to invent a microprocessor chip, the computation engine on a single wafer otherwise known as a central processing unit, or CPU. ...   read more

Monsignor William Lynn of the Philadelphia archdiocese is about to become the first Catholic official in the U.S. to stand trial for his actions during the child sex abuse scandal that rocked churches across the country.   With jury selection sc...   read more

Fueled by a flood of influential books and documentary films, the locally grown foods movement has basked in the media spotlight (including a Time magazine cover in 2007) and enjoyed astronomical growth since the turn of the century. In fact, loca...   read more

For the first time in nine months, the South American nation of Ecuador has an ambassador at its Washington, DC, embassy. On January 18, 2012, Nathalie Cely Suárez replaced Luis Gallegos, whom the U.S. expelled in April 2011 as retaliation for Ecu...   read more

From the Northeast to the Midwest to the Deep South, five states still have not elected a woman to Congress: Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, Vermont and North Dakota. In 1992, Jocelyn Birch Burdick of North Dakota was appointed to serve a three-month...   read more

The same week Citibank settled one lawsuit alleging fraudulent business practices, the bank was hit with another civil case, this one involving the luring of consumers to open accounts through frequent flyer miles promises.   A federal class act...   read more

Having decided enough’s enough with all the manmade space debris floating around the earth, Switzerland plans to develop a special satellite that will clean up Swiss space junk.   Dubbed CleanSpace One, the project will employ a new kind of “jan...   read more

President Barack Obama has welcomed a new ambassador from Morocco, which was the first nation to recognize the newly-independent United States in 1777. Mohamed Rachad Bouhlal was appointed ambassador by King Mohammed VI on December 6, 2011, and pr...   read more

The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, located in the Caucasus Mountains west of the Caspian Sea, south of Russia and north of Iran, has sent a new ambassador to the U.S. Elin Suleymanov is quite familiar with the U.S., having lived here ten ye...   read more

A court in Italy garnered worldwide attention this week when it convicted two wealthy foreign executives of involuntary manslaughter for exposing thousands of people to asbestos.   The defendants, billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny of Switzerland, ...   read more