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

The city of Salem, Missouri, is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for blocking access at its library to websites about minority religions.   Using the Netsweeper filtering program, library officials had classified informati...   read more

The legacy of Mohammad Salman Hamdani is filled with both acknowledgments and overt slights, demonstrating how an individual’s religious and cultural identity can obscure their heroism in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.   ...   read more

Coca-Cola is being urged to pull out of Swaziland, a small kingdom in southern Africa ruled by the notorious Mswati III, the continent’s last remaining absolute monarch. Swaziland produces all of the Coca-Cola concentrate for the rest of Africa, y...   read more

After a significant earthquake hit on New Year’s Eve, leaders in Ohio ordered the temporary closure of one natural gas-related injection well in the eastern portion of the state near Youngstown and the postponement of the opening of four more.   ...   read more

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants it to be clear that it is not the “Airport Security Administration.”   These days, special teams of TSA officials can be seen appearing randomly at the country’s train stations, bus depots a...   read more

It took three decades and a historic deficit to motivate them, but Congress finally killed a lucrative farm subsidy that promoted the sale of ethanol.   Technically, lawmakers took no action to end the corn-based subsidy, as it was set to expire...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is fast making itself an enemy of Judge Jed Rakoff.   The SEC previously filed a settlement with Rakoff to resolve a billion-dollar securities fraud case involving Citigroup—which the judge rejected b...   read more

America’s expanding waist lines have prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to adopt new rules for the first time in half a century because they now assume that the average passenger aboard vessels is a good 25 pounds heavier.   The new regulation states...   read more

He waited until New Year’s Eve to do it…but he did it. While expressing “serious reservations” about the bill, President Barack Obama on New Year’s Eve signed legislation that cements into law two highly controversial tenets of the war on terror: ...   read more

Montana’s century-old ban on corporate spending in elections has been restored by a 5-2 vote of the state Supreme Court, bucking the Citizens United ruling from two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court.   Since 1912, Montana had prohibited corpor...   read more

When the United States on February 21, 2010, accidentally killed at least 15 civilians in southern Afghanistan, the missile attack responsible was prompted by ambiguous intelligence provided by a defense contractor that was aggressively misinterpr...   read more

Road construction in Afghanistan under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is so terrible that “one could argue that USAID officials are providing aid and comfort to the enemy,” according to Matthew J. Nasuti of K...   read more

Ex-Sheriff Booked into Jail Named after Him The Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility in Colorado this week took in an unexpected prisoner: Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. himself. The former sheriff of Arapahoe County (1983-2002), for whom the jail...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to withdraw rules limiting the use of human antibiotics in animal feed, much to the dismay of environmental and consumer groups.   The FDA used the holiday season to quietly make the policy chan...   read more

The royal family of Saudi Arabia will receive more than 80 jet fighters from the United States as part of a $29.4 billion arms deal approved by the Obama administration.   Eighty-four new F-15SA Strike Eagle fighters will be delivered to the Sau...   read more

The civil case against the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program by the National Security Agency (NSA) has been resurrected by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle because the federal government may have conducte...   read more