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

Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest suppliers of chicken, pork and beef products, recently paid a multi-million dollar fine to the U.S. government for bribing foreign nationals. But no company officials were singled out for blame or prosecut...   read more

Paul W. Jones, a career member of the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia on September 8, 2010.   Born in Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1960, Jones graduated fro...   read more

Critics of President Barack Obama have had an easy time recently throwing his own words back at him on tough issues like raising the national debt and being involved in Libya.   As president, Obama wants Congress to lift the national debt limi...   read more

Getting out of Guantánamo and going free is no longer a possibility for many detainees even after they have won legal battles in lower federal courts.   Those victories have repeatedly been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for ...   read more

A new species of mushroom discovered in Borneo has been named SpongeBob SquarePants by researchers. The fungus, Spongiforma squarepantsii, was found by biologists from San Francisco State University during an expedition to Borneo’s forests. They...   read more

Pamela L. Spratlen was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic on April 15, 2011.   She was born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Washington State and California. Her father, Thaddeus Spratlen, was a professor in the Department of Mark...   read more

Oleksandr Motsyk was took over as Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States on June 11, 2010.   Motsyk was born on May 3, 1955, in the village of Horodets Volodymeretskoho, in the Rivne region of the Ukraine. In 1981 he graduated from Kyiv Sta...   read more

Half of the senior citizens of the United Kingdom have been taking prescription drugs that can impair brain function or cause death, according to a new medical study of 13,000 people aged 65 or older. Researchers from the University of East Angl...   read more

China’s government may be Communist, but that doesn’t mean the country as a whole is. Not by a long shot.   The latest figures on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership show that 80 million Chinese are members. That’s a lot of people—almost ...   read more

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck is on the hook to pay $473 million to the IRS for taxes owed by its newest acquisition, Schering-Plough.   Following an audit in 2004, IRS officials determined that Schering-Plough, manufacturer of such drugs ...   read more

Namik Tan has served as Turkey’s ambassador to the United States since February 2010.   Born in 1956 in Mardin, Tan graduated from the University of Ankara with a law degree.   He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982 and worked in ...   read more

Attorney Narcís Casal de Fonsdeviela has served as ambassador of the tiny European nation of Andorra to the United States since November 2, 2009. He had already been serving as Andorra’s representative to the United Nations since September of th...   read more

“We take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding,” President Barack Obama told the nation. “Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm's way.” That may be true in terms of how many American troops are fighting in Afghanistan...   read more

The ACLU and the Tea Party have found at least one thing in common: believing that Redding, California’s local ordinance limiting free speech has to go.   In separate legal briefs, the two disparate groups challenged Redding’s new law restrict...   read more

After witnessing the implosion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) didn’t bother to take action on numerous complaints against the taxpayer-owned mortgage finance giants over a two-year period.   According ...   read more

Tim DeChristopher, convicted of fraudulently bidding on oil and gas leases to protest the exploitation of natural resources on public lands, will find out next month just how long he might have to serve in prison.   U.S. District Judge Dee Ben...   read more