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 poorest city in America got some mysterious holiday cheer this week. An unidentified man known only as the Secret Santa traveled around Reading, Pennsylvania, handing out $100 bills to people in need. From the bus terminal to the local Salvat...   read more

The new U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh is a career diplomat who grew up milking cows on the family farm, and whose career has taken him primarily to rural countries in South Asia and Southern Africa. Dan W. Mozena previously served at the embassy i...   read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has sued five national banks for allegedly pursuing illegal foreclosures on properties in her state.   Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and GMAC are accused of violating Massachuset...   read more

Governments of all stripes, including authoritarian regimes, have plenty of opportunities to shop for the last technology to spy on their citizens. Since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the surveillance industry has exploded in size, so...   read more

Conservative lawmakers in Hungary have outlawed homelessness. The crackdown comes as the number of people living on the streets of the country’s capital, Budapest, has grown to about 10,000. Charitable organizations have blasted the new law, calli...   read more

On June 24, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Adrienne S. O’Neal to be the United States ambassador to Cape Verde, a Portuguese-speaking island nation 300 miles off the west coast of Africa. There is a significant Cape Verdean-American popula...   read more

The latest ambassador from the African nation of Gabon is a longtime public servant who spent his twenties in Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; and Phoenix, Arizona; both as a college student and an early career professional. Michael Moussa-A...   read more

Congress has been doing less with more.   Since the end of the 1970s, the U.S. House and Senate have drastically cut back on the number of hearings they have held, according to the Brookings Institution. The House these days is holding about two...   read more

JPMorgan Chase ordered a 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter out of their northwest Atlanta home after trouble arose over mortgage payments. But Fulton County sheriff’s deputies and the moving company hired to evict the women refused t...   read more

It will tell you where to get breast implants and where to score drugs, but the Siri virtual assistant software on Apple’s new iPhone 4S won’t tell you where to get an abortion.   Pro-choice advocates are urging Apple to correct Siri, which curr...   read more

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 was named, was arrested on charges of tr...   read more

To hear some in the media speak about it, you’d think that China was a nation of rich and middle-class people with enough money to load up on new consumer goods. In fact, most of China isn’t like that at all.   On Tuesday, the Chinese government...   read more

Democrats and Republicans joined together in the U.S. Senate this week to keep legislation intact that would expand the military’s power to go after terrorism suspects, including American citizens in the U.S., and confine them indefinitely without...   read more

The summer of 2008 was a jittery time on Wall Street. A crippled Bear Stearns had already sold itself off at a bargain rate to JPMorgan Chase, the housing market was turning to quicksand, and whispers were circulating about the health of Fannie Ma...   read more

Dakota Meyer, the first U.S. Marine since the Vietnam War to receive the Medal of Honor while still alive, has gone from war hero to whistleblower in just a couple of months.   Having left the service and been celebrated in the press for his her...   read more

Bradley Manning, the Army private awaiting trial for allegedly giving thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks, is being denied evidence for his defense by the Obama administration.   David Coombs, Manning’s defense attorney, wa...   read more