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

As part of his effort to boost the U.S. economy, President Barack Obama has ordered federal agencies to make it easier for tourists from countries with growing national incomes to visit American cities and travel spots.   Under Obama’s plan, the...   read more

In a nation that invented the “super-size me” option, it seems only appropriate that U.S. political campaigns would figure out a way to go mega when it comes to collecting and spending money on elections.   Beyond the political action committee ...   read more

Twenty-one railroad accidents since 2001 could have been prevented with new safety technology that the industry is fighting against adopting. Using GPS, wireless communications and central control centers, Positive Train Control (PTC) automaticall...   read more

Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes.   According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, approximately 4...   read more

Now that advances in medical technology are making it easier today to perform extractions, a nonprofit group is fighting the federal government to win the right to pay donors for bone marrow.   Under a 1984 federal law, it is illegal for anyone ...   read more

In what may be the first of its kind, a congressman who once earmarked money for a local alternative energy project is financially benefitting from the very same project, now that he has left office   William Delahunt (D-Massachusetts) served in...   read more

Gun-rights advocates have lost their legal challenge in federal court to stop the Obama administration from requiring certain gun dealers along the Mexican border to report multiple sales of assault rifles.   Beginning last July, the Bureau of A...   read more

In a controversial decision regarding women’s health care, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has announced a final rule that requires employers that provide insurance coverage to their employees to cover contraceptives at no...   read more

In yet another case of drinking water contamination in areas where energy companies have engaged in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is supplying clean water to some re...   read more

Thirteen disabled Idahoans, living with disabling and chronic conditions such as epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, Down’s Syndrome, schizophrenia, and developmental disabilities ranging from mild to severe, are suing the Idaho Department of Health and...   read more

United States government pension plans pay out more than $70 billion a year to about 1.8 million retired federal workers. But not all government retirees are created equal. According to data acquired by Bloomberg News through the Freedom of Inform...   read more

Major European space contractors and space agencies recently began work on NEOShield, a three-and-a-half-year project to study how best to protect the earth from a devastating collision with an asteroid or other Near Earth Object (NEO). Although t...   read more

Washington State’s open-primary law has withstood a key legal challenge in federal court, giving hope to reformers opposed to the two-party system that has dominated elections.   Approved by voters in 2004, it immediately came under legal attack...   read more

In an era when budget cuts have crippled police protection in some cities, the tiny village of Woodmere, Ohio, which employs nine officers to serve and protect only 884 residents (one of the highest ratios in the country) is on the verge of elimin...   read more

The state of Vermont's effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority.   In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Statio...   read more

Economic recovery is still a long way away for the vast majority of U.S. cities, according to a new report produced for city mayors and urban proponents.   Of the 363 metropolitan areas that lost jobs during the Great Recession, only 26 so far h...   read more