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

It may end up costing at least $7 billion just for the Department of Defense to fix its byzantine accounting system, so military leaders and lawmakers can actually know what the Pentagon is doing with its money.   The Defense Department has alre...   read more

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s financial woes have the city teetering and local leaders battling each other over how to address the situation.   The City Council on Wednesday voted 4-3 to file for bankruptcy, due to the staggering debt of $400 milli...   read more

The first prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians in more than 25 years was overshadowed by the disproportionate ratio of the deal.   For one Israeli soldier, Sgt. Gilad Shalit, Israel agreed to let go more than 1,000 Hamas fighters....   read more

After not paying its utility bill in full for five years, the struggling city of Highland Park, Michigan (population: 11,776), is so bad off that it is tearing out the majority of its street lights—and in the process exposing its residents to a he...   read more

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman of Chechnya, enjoyed quite a birthday celebration last week that included singers, renowned musicians and Hollywood film stars Hilary Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme.   Human rights organizations publicly chastized ...   read more

Exploring WikiLeaks’ more than 250,000 confidential State Department cables has been made easier by a group of European computer experts. Cablesearch is a new search engine created by the European Center of Computer Assisted Reporting. The “Google...   read more

Stephen Patrick has spent the past three years collecting a paycheck from the federal government while not doing the job for which he was hired, because his supervisors can’t decide what to do with him following his professional transgressions. ...   read more

Decades of adopting tougher sentencing laws in the U.S., including mandatory minimum sentences, have had the effect of magnifying the power of local prosecutors, who have intimidated defendants into accepting deals and avoiding trials altogether...   read more

The nonprofit Center for Food Safety has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change its regulations and require all food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to bear labels informing consumers of this fact.   Current...   read more

AllGov has received numerous requests for practical information about how to obtain military records. The good news is that obtaining a copy of someone’s U.S. military record is now a request away from the National Archives, for veterans or thei...   read more

Fort Detrick in Maryland, where the U.S. biological weapons program was based from the 1940s through the 1960s, is suspected of causing numerous cases of cancer and other serious health problems for those living near it.   Randy White, founder...   read more

A tough job these days is the one that officials in Japan are doing to convince overseas buyers that their nuclear reactors are a smart investment.   Despite the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March that forced more than 10...   read more

In one swift, controversial attack, the U.S. government assassinated two Americans last month, raising legal concerns about what the killings mean for the constitutional guarantee of due process for citizens.   The September 30 drone strike in...   read more

According to economists, the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009 and since then the United States has been in a period of economic recovery. However, the recession didn’t really end for most Americans, as poll after poll has revealed lar...   read more

The U.S. pullout from Afghanistan within the next few years will by no means include all American soldiers, or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).   By 2014, the Obama administration plans to withdraw most of the military’s large-scale comb...   read more

The Obama administration’s top prosecutors in California are implementing a joint campaign to go after the state’s biggest medical marijuana operations, claiming businesses are flouting the law and making an illegal profit.   For the first two a...   read more