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 U.S. government prides itself on spreading the wealth when it comes to outsourcing contracts to private companies. In Fiscal Year 2010, it awarded contracts to 163,500 different contractors. It sounds impressive. But a closer look at the num...   read more

In the early years of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a half dozen military personnel performed the thankless, and now forgotten, task of investigating reports of detainees abused by American forces.   The six-member Detainee Abuse Task Force (DATF...   read more

A defense attorney representing a Guantánamo prisoner has requested the admittance of classified documents published by WikiLeaks as evidence at his client’s military trial. The documents, known as “detainee assessments,” were released to the me...   read more

Getting to the White House means dealing with defeat. Of the 43 men who have served as president of the United States, 31 of them lost at least one race during their political career.   The list of those who overcame losing (as complied by Lar...   read more

An attorney by profession, Mwanaidi Sinare Maajar was chosen to be Tanzania’s ambassador to the United States in March 2010 and presented her credentials on September 7.   Born January 12, 1954, and raised in Moshi, Tanzania, Maajar earned a b...   read more

Western Europe is the place to be for a mom, with Norway leading the way by example. According to Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report, Norway was ranked No. 1 among all countries when it comes to access to health care, educat...   read more

The U.S. Department of Energy is refusing to reveal the names and other details related to taxpayer-financed trips taken by employees.   Information on more than 44,000 trips taken from January 2006 to September 2010 were missing the name of t...   read more

Since the 37-year reign of J. Edgar Hoover came to an end with his death in 1972, the FBI has been led by only five directors, each of whom has served one 10-year term in office, as determined by federal law. It is against this historical backdr...   read more

Sue K. Brown, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was appointed in November 2010 by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to Montenegro. She was sworn in on April 27, 2011.   A native of Texas, Brown joined the Foreign Servi...   read more

Muni Figueres was appointed as Costa Rica’s Ambassador to the United States in August 2010.   Figueres was born in Costa Rica and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from City College of New York, Cours de Civilisation franc...   read more

The Target retail chain has, for years, encouraged its workers in its 1,750 stores to refuse to join a union by using a 13-minute in-house video that, ironically, features actors who are union members.   Starring Ric Reitz and Nicky Buggs, mem...   read more

Barack Obama bowed down before him and George W. Bush made a point of being photographed in public holding his hand. But if King Abdullah didn’t control the world’s largest oil reserves, U.S. presidents and the vast majority of Americans would h...   read more

At the U.S. Navy’s Virginia testing grounds for its most sophisticated air and ballistic missile defense radar systems, a unique six-story building sits largely vacant, after more than a billion dollars was invested in the program behind its pur...   read more

Rafat Azzam is suing three companies, including a division of Citibank, for allegedly tearing down the house he purchased last year in northeast Washington, DC.   Azzam, an Egyptian citizen who came to Washington to pursue a degree in mechanic...   read more

A career diplomat, Cyrille S. Oguin has served as ambassador to the United States from the West African nation of Benin since March 2001.   Oguin is a graduate of the Algiers National School of Administration (Foreign Service) and the Geneva G...   read more

Jefferson County, Alabama, is placing nearly 1,000 public workers on administrative leave without pay as officials struggle to pay off a staggering debt of $3.2 billion. The financial crater county leaders dug dates back to the 1990s when they a...   read more