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 took almost eight months after his nomination, but veteran Foreign Service officer David B. Shear officially became the ambassador to Vietnam, on August 4, 2011. Shear’s appointment was held up after Senators from both parties placed multiple...   read more

Supposedly for the sake of stabilizing world oil prices, but also at the expense of creating American jobs, the Obama administration decided this summer to use foreign-owned ships to transport oil from the U.S. stockpile. The big winners in the ...   read more

After consistently denying any responsibility for cyber attacks directed at the United States, China aired a television documentary that contradicts the longstanding denials.   On a state-run television program, the documentary about computer ...   read more

Before its landmark collapse in May 2009, Silverton Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, provided its board of directors with extravagant perks, including private jets, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).   FDIC lawyers are now suing ...   read more

After paying several thousand dollars just to get there, students from around the world have been spending their summer in Central Pennsylvania, packaging Hershey’s candies for low wages and long hours. They came to the U.S. on the promise of ex...   read more

Apparently former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made quite an impression on former dictator Muammar Gaddafi when she visited Libya three years ago.   As rebels ransacked Gaddafi’s compound this week, they found a photo album brimming with ...   read more

In an attempt to please Wall Street, the Obama administration is pressuring state attorneys general to accept a deal being brokered with big banks over their illegal and unethical foreclosure practices.   One AG in particular, New York’s Eric ...   read more

By war-on-terror standards, the U.S. involvement in Libya was a real bargain, according to new figures released by the Department of Defense.   After months of helping rebels take down Muammar Gaddafi, the U.S. has wound up paying just under $...   read more

Federal prosecutors are still investigating BP’s underestimated oil-spill numbers that were released during last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.   The Department of Justice is examining whether BP officials deliberately withheld data from t...   read more

Risperdal, an anti-psychotic drug used to treat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is about as effective as a placebo, say medical researchers.   Experts with the Department of Veterans Affairs published a paper in the...   read more

The Fairness Doctrine was officially erased from the books of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday. Established in 1949, the rule required broadcasters to present controversial issues in a balanced manner that included opposing ...   read more

News of Goldman Sachs’ top executive hiring a defense attorney caught investors off-guard on Monday, causing Goldman’s shares to fall in value and leaving Wall Street wondering what’s next for the nation’s largest investment bank.   Lloyd Blankf...   read more

When the financial crisis of 2008 erupted and threatened to take down Wall Street’s biggest institutions, the federal government rode to the rescue, with even more money than was previously disclosed. In addition to the well-publicized disbursem...   read more

Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, which became famous for trying to save the life of President John F. Kennedy following his assassination in 1963, has spiraled into a morass of poor medical care and faulty practices. Federal regulators are ...   read more

The United States’ leading food-assistance program has expanded by nearly 75% over the past four years, demonstrating the crippling effect of the Great Recession on a large segment of American society.   Today, there are almost 46 million peop...   read more

In eight years of warfare, the Iraq campaign has cost the United States many of its youngest men. Almost 1,300 of the more than 4,400 American troops killed in the Iraq war have been aged 18 to 21. More than half were in the lowest enlisted ranks....   read more