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

Pirating on the high seas is not yielding the same results as last year, though not for lack of trying.   So far this year pirates have carried out 266 attacks, up from 196 incidents during the first six months of 2010. But the increased effort ...   read more

Appointed ambassador to Kenya in February 2011, Scott Gration spent most of his professional career in the U.S. Air Force, before serving as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Sudan—a job he bungled, according to critics.   The son of mis...   read more

Bayney Ram Karran has served as Guyana’s ambassador to the United States since December 2003. Concurrently, he has been Guyana’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).   Prior to becoming a diplomat, Karran spen...   read more

The ordeal of Rupert Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, rooted in illegal activities that took place in the United Kingdom, has now spread to the United States, where members of a prominent publishing family are expressing regrets over their dealing...   read more

The federal government is attempting to establish voluntary guidelines—voluntary—for companies to follow when it comes to food marketed to children. The standards would not be enforceable by federal regulators, who merely seek healthier nutrition ...   read more

Scott Bloch, the one-time special counsel to President George W. Bush, has decided he’d rather take his chances in court than plead guilty and go to jail for obstructing justice.   The former head of the Office of Special Counsel—who’s supposed ...   read more

Welfare recipients in Missouri now will have to submit to drug testing in order to keep their benefits, under a new state law.   Anyone refusing to be tested will lose their eligibility. But those testing positive can still be in the program a...   read more

If President Barack Obama has a problem with his left flank, as some liberal critics contend, it’s not showing up in his latest—“staggering”—fundraising totals.   During one three-month period (April-June) this year, the Obama reelection effor...   read more

The Department of Defense’s special program for brain injuries can’t seem to explain its purpose to congressional watchdogs, and that doesn’t bode well for the program’s future or for those it’s supposed to be helping: wounded war veterans.   ...   read more

Fracking may be bad not only for your faucet, but also your garden.   And perhaps even a forest.   With considerable speculation surrounding the controversial method of freeing up natural gas below the Earth’s surface, the U.S. Forest Service ...   read more

The revolving door has started going the other way in Washington, D.C., where government officials have a long history of cashing in their public service for high-paying lobbying jobs.   This year, though, a significant number of lobbyists have ...   read more

Having survived war and terrorism in Iraq and endured long bureaucratic delays to settle in the U.S, Iraqi refugees continue to struggle because of high unemployment.   Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled their home country since the U.S. inva...   read more

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the Obama administration’s lead official on raising the national debt ceiling, has insisted Congress must act soon to avoid the government experiencing its first-ever default. Such a development “would be cat...   read more

It seemed like a cynical ploy by desperate politicians, but one that might work.   Wisconsin Republicans, faced with six state senate recall elections over their backing of Governor Scott Walker’s budget measure that eviscerated the collective b...   read more

BP says there’s no longer any need to spend the remainder of the $20 billion fund it established after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, claiming the Gulf of Mexico region has recovered from the disaster and is doing just fine.   In documentati...   read more

Having helped end funding for Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire, Republican Raymond Wieczorek made it clear what he thinks of the abortion provider and those seeking its services.   “I am opposed to abortion,” Wieczorek told Reuters. “I am o...   read more