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

A career diplomat who previously served as ambassador to two other African nations, Wanda L. Nesbitt became U.S. ambassador to Namibia in November 2010.   A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor of arts degrees in internationa...   read more

In Wisconsin, home of the much-maligned Republican effort to weaken the collective bargaining power of public employees, a local county is considering the use of prison inmates for community upkeep in place of union workers.   Racine County Jail...   read more

Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national convicted in Texas of murdering a teenage girl, was executed on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-ditch legal effort to postpone his death.   Leal’s case drew considerable attention from...   read more

A new environmental regulation from the Obama administration intended to cut pollution and save lives has been blasted by the coal industry as a job killer.   The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule” tha...   read more

Overview: The newest nation in the world, officially born July 9, 2011, is the Republic of South Sudan, which seceded from the larger nation of Sudan after decades of civil war that took millions of lives and severely retarded the South’s developm...   read more

Robert A. Miller was appointed to the State Justice Institute (SJI) Board of Governors in February 1998. The SJI is a non-profit corporation run by the 11 members of its Board of Directors, each of whom is appointed by the President of the United ...   read more

The war in Afghanistan is over for the armed forces of Canada, which will pull out all of its remaining personnel before the end of the year.   After nine years of combat, the remaining 2,800 Canadian troops recently began turning over their dis...   read more

We’re only halfway through the year, but it looks like a lot of the companies Americans love to hate are continuing to frustrate and bedevil them.   The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) surveys thousands of people about 245 companie...   read more

President Barak Obama’s first crack at an online town hall held exclusively through Twitter proved to be an opportune move for House Republicans who flooded the event with bated questions and negative remarks about the economy.   Led by House Sp...   read more

Seventeen years after the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, the U.S. government has agreed to a controversial provision allowing trucks from Mexico to deliver goods deep into the country. The turnabout by the Obama administrati...   read more

Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, plays a multi-faceted role in the rising Republican’s campaign for her party’s presidential nomination. But as he sketches out a new role for himself, his day job is drawing a bit of attention.   Marcus Bach...   read more

When an individual’s income, both pre-tax and after-tax, goes up more than 400%, shouldn’t they pay taxes like those eking out a living?   That’s the argument by tax reformers who want to go after some of the biggest earners on Wall Street. In...   read more

David Petraeus, the United States’ top military commander in Afghanistan who’s now moving to the CIA, promised last year to cut down on the use of airstrikes to combat the Taliban, in order to reduce the risk of civilian casualties.   But the ...   read more

The largest fire in New Mexico history finally receded from the edges of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, but it crept close enough to spark concern among local residents and anti-nuclear activists opposed to the lab’s proposed plutonium facili...   read more

Young Hoosiers won’t have to deal with turning in their assignments this fall in cursive, because the Indiana Department of Education has decided to eliminate the flowing handwriting style as a requirement.   Indiana became one of the latest of ...   read more

When oil started gushing from an ExxonMobil pipeline into the famed Yellowstone River over the weekend, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer took exception to the oil company’s initial claim that the spill had not impacted wildlife along the famed Ye...   read more