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

Conservatives have demanded that President Barack Obama fire his ambassador to Belgium for remarks linking anti-Semitism to the unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict.   The two leading Republican candidates for president, Mitt Romney and Newt ...   read more

Efforts to slow the effects of global warming went out the window last year with a record release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A small number of big developing nations, trying to stimulate their economies out of the global recession, fue...   read more

The top official at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has resigned after being arrested last weekend for drunk driving outside of Washington, DC.   FAA Administrator Jerome Randolph “Randy” Babbitt was pulled over by police in Fairfax Ci...   read more

With prompting from the media, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to make public its secret lists that include repeat corporate polluters.   Following the publication of a story by the Center for Public Integrity’s iWatch News ...   read more

The process of presidential pardons for convicted criminals has not been colorblind in recent years, according to an investigation by ProPublica.   After examining hundreds of pardons issued during the Bush and Obama administrations (mostly the ...   read more

The number of illegal immigrants arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border has continued to decline, down to a 40-year low.   About 327,000 people were apprehended during fiscal year 2011, according to the Department of Homeland Security. This figure i...   read more

Users of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia mobile phones can forget about keeping their cellular activities to themselves. Almost everything a person does on these phones is recorded by a secret program that few knew about until last week.   That wa...   read more

Having previously attested to the product’s safety, the Food and Drug Administration is now considering guidelines to limit the amount of harmful arsenic in apple juice.   The FDA currently does not regulate arsenic levels in fruit juices. But r...   read more

For the millions of Americans who lost their jobs during the Great Recession, finding new employment has been only one hurdle to clear. Getting their old way of life back is still another.   Using four surveys administered between August 2009 an...   read more

Alabama’s tough anti-illegal immigrant law, intended to nab undocumented Hispanics, wound up ensnaring two foreign automaker executives.   First, police arrested a German manager with Mercedes-Benz for not having a driver’s license with him afte...   read more

32,000 days. That’s how long AT&T has been in violation of environmental laws in Texas for polluting large areas with leaky underground gasoline tanks, according to state and county officials.   Harris County (which includes the city of Houston)...   read more

Occupy protesters in Richmond, Virginia, have sided with Tea Party members in their fight against City Hall.   The Richmond Tea Party has accused the mayor of retaliating against them for saying the city unfairly charged it $10,000 for demonstra...   read more

President Barack Obama has turned to a former health care executive to serve as the next Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the federal body responsible for administering the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as...   read more

Many of the world’s top banks have been labeled “climate killers” by a consortium of environmental organizations that studied the financial industry’s investments in coal.   “We chose to look into coal financing as coal-fired power plants are th...   read more

Being in law enforcement and speaking out against the nation’s drug laws can be professionally hazardous. But a growing number of police and others are doing just that, and suffering the consequences.   Those who have lost their jobs for persona...   read more

Former U.S. Navy Captain Ray E. Davis faces an extradition order from Chile for participating in the murders of two Americans shortly after a military coup toppled the regime of President Salvador Allende in 1973.    A Chilean judge wants Davis ...   read more