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

The United States may be planning to withdraw large numbers of troops from Afghanistan, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. is leaving the country.   Over the next three years, while thousands of soldiers pack up and head home, contractors will be ...   read more

Infuse, a leading biotech solution for repairing damaged spinal cords, has been called out by a medical journal that devoted an entire issue to the product and questioned whether its manufacturer, Medtronic, has been above board in its promotion. ...   read more

Labeled the “little Cayman Island on the Great Plains,” a modest-looking home near the state capitol of Cheyenne, Wyoming, serves as the official address for more than 2,000 companies, including phony ones set up to hide assets from the governme...   read more

A federal appeals court has given Con Edison, the electricity provider for most of lower Manhattan, permission to move forward with its lawsuit against the Port Authority of New York for allowing diesel fuel tanks to sit beneath one of the World...   read more

Having long enjoyed their pensions before typical retirement age, members of Congress now face the risk of losing this perk as a result of new legislation introduced in both the House and Senate.   Representative Bobby Schilling (R-Illinois) i...   read more

Scientific analysis has taken a backseat to scandal and chaos at the military’s top crime lab, where a host of controversies have plagued the facility’s management.   Complaints ranging from racism and sexual harassment to assault and fraud ha...   read more

Left-leaning Democrats and the libertarian wing of the Republican Party have come together to propose the first-ever legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level.   Representatives Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) and Ron Paul (R-Texas...   read more

An apple a day can keep the doctor away, as long as it’s not heavily contaminated with pesticides.   America’s second most popular fresh fruit (behind bananas) is nearly always sold with some amount of farm chemicals on it, according to the En...   read more

Beyond the expected heat of battle, temperatures have played a costly role in the United States’ 10 years of warfare.   With conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq taking place in desert regions, where the daytime thermometer can eclipse 120 degree...   read more

House Republicans are supporting a lobbying effort by corporations to repeal new rules requiring the disclosure of executives’ salaries.   Publicizing the pay of corporate leaders, which was included in the Wall Street reform legislation adopt...   read more

Set-top boxes, the equipment that comes with television cable and satellite services, have turned out to be real energy hogs, wasting billions of dollars in electricity each year.   Whether Americans are watching TV or not, the boxes run at fu...   read more

Rennie Gibbs faces a possible mandatory sentence of life in prison for taking cocaine while pregnant, because a prosecutor in Mississippi insists the drug use caused the stillborn death of her baby.   Gibbs, who was 15 when she became pregnant...   read more

Thousands of sailors soon will be forced ashore permanently, once the U.S. Navy decides who to discharge into the ailing civilian economy.   Because of the weak job market, fewer sailors have been leaving the service. Only 28% are leaving afte...   read more

Fed up with the presence of illegal immigrants in their state, lawmakers in Georgia recently adopted legislation intended to drive such individuals “back home.”   In the process of doing so, politicians have crippled Georgia’s largest economic...   read more

Convicted criminals who previously entered into plea agreements can be allowed to reduce their sentences in situations where a sentencing guideline was later changed, said the U.S. Supreme Court this week.   The ruling stemmed from the case of W...   read more

Tired of expensive and poor service, cities across the United States have taken to investing in their own high-speed Internet services and dumping those offered by private telecommunications companies.   More than 50 cities own fiber networks ...   read more