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

For the second time in 11 years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered television networks to provide audio descriptions of actions on screen to assist blind and visually impaired viewers.   The FCC issued similar rules in 20...   read more

The end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has impacted not only the soldiers of today, but those who served nearly 70 years ago.   In 1944, Melvin Dwork was kicked out of the U.S. Navy for being gay (apparently turned in by his boyfriend at the time ...   read more

Career diplomat Lisa J. Kubiske received her first chance to become an ambassador on July 26, 2011, when she was sworn in as ambassador to Honduras.   Born Lisa Shapiro, Kubiske attended college at Brandeis University, where during her junior ...   read more

Daniel Ohene Agyekum, a political insider who is no stranger to controversy, has been the ambassador to the United States from Ghana since October 19, 2009.    Born March 10, 1942, at Juaso in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, which was then a Brit...   read more

Republican lawmakers in Arizona, including Gov. Jan Brewer, went beyond their authority when they diverted more than $50 million meant for public transit projects to other purposes.   In response to a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Center for La...   read more

The Department of the Interior has agreed to a potentially landmark settlement with environmentalists that will impact more than 700 species considered threatened or endangered.   By 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service promises to decide ...   read more

Like many Americans, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a problem with storage—as in too much of it.   An audit of IRS spending found the agency has been allocating $862,000 a year to store old furniture and other equipment in warehouses. ...   read more

Colonel Glenn R. Huber Jr. has served as commandant of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) at Fort Benning, Georgia, since July 29, 2010. He last served with WHINSEC in 2001, when he was a department director and ...   read more

David Mohlomi Rantekoa has served as ambassador of Lesotho to the United States since May 21, 2008. Lesotho, a nation of 2 million people, is completely surrounded by South Africa.   Born May 2, 1953, Rantekoa graduated from the National Unive...   read more

While more than one party played a role in the disaster, oil giant BP deserved the largest share of blame for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, says a new federal report.   In assessing the April 20 blowout and explosion that produced the wor...   read more

Two weeks before the Obama administration granted its first green-energy loan guarantee in 2009 to Solyndra Inc., an analyst in the U.S. Department of Energy warned that the solar-panel manufacturer would run out of money by September 2011.   ...   read more

When it comes to essential materials needed for so much of modern living, China wields considerable leverage over the consumerist appetite of the Western world.   Many of the critical elements required for manufacturing that are now deemed at-...   read more

L-3 Communications, one of the top defense contractors in the United States, is being sued by a group of Serbs who accuse the company of helping Croatians commit genocide against their people during the Balkans war in 1995.   A lawsuit filed i...   read more

Once considered the dream of science fiction writers, the use of suspended animation has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials.   Spearheading the futuristic technique is Dr. Peter Rhee, who gained na...   read more

The justification behind contracting out government work to private employees is that it’s supposed to be cheaper to let the private sector do it. Well, that may not be true.   According to a study by the watchdog group the Project on Governme...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probed a possible connection between a Saudi family living in Florida and the hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks, but never informed Congress or the 9/11 Commission about the investigatio...   read more