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 Department of Health and Human Services has classified formaldehyde as a known carcinogen, but it remains to be seen if another part of the federal government will do its part to limit the chemical’s exposure to the public.   Health expert...   read more

The IRS has reported that the number of taxpayers earning more than $200,000 annually who owed no income taxes nearly doubled from 2007 to 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available.   There were 4,375,660 individual income ...   read more

From natural settings to man-made structures, nearly a dozen historic locations in the U.S. are threatened with being lost forever, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.   Included on the list is Bear Butte in South Dakota...   read more

China has invited Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, to visit the country on June 27 despite the fact that he is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and genocide. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for al-Ba...   read more

The latest economic news makes it all too clear who the winners are in the U.S. economy. Small businesses are struggling to expand, while the biggest companies are growing even bigger. And a smaller percentage of the nation’s overall income is g...   read more

The more things change, the more they stay the same in Washington, DC, where the current president promised to do things differently from his predecessor, but in fact has done exactly the same thing George W. Bush did in rewarding big-time fundr...   read more

The Obama administration has decided to allow Indian tribes to build casinos far from their reservations, a practice that was restricted under a rule adopted by President George W. Bush’s Department of the Interior.   Permitting the developmen...   read more

Companies in Washington State can fire employees for using medical marijuana in a legal manner, according to a ruling by the state’s Supreme Court.   An unnamed woman training for a position with TeleTech Customer Care Management, a customer-s...   read more

Diplomats from Washington and Moscow have been sparring over the ongoing turmoil in Syria, reminding some of the Cold War days when the two superpowers engaged in surrogate wars and jockeyed for influence in the Middle East.   American declara...   read more

Labeled the biggest heist in American history, about $6.6 billion delivered to Iraq by the United States after the 2003 invasion has disappeared.   The money was part of $12 billion in cash that was flown to Iraq on U.S. military planes, presu...   read more

It’s impossible to know if the federal government is effectively spending billions of dollars on contractors to help fight the nation’s war on drugs, says a U.S. senator.   Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri, chair of the Subcommittee on Co...   read more

Hecla Mining Company has agreed to pay one of the largest settlements ever involving toxic clean-up under the Superfund program. The good news is that the money will be used to help fund the clean-up. The bad news is that the amount won’t come c...   read more

Bradley Kilburn is suing what briefly was his new employer after the company fired him allegedly because his wife has Multiple Sclerosis (MS). In September 2010, Kilburn moved from Minnesota to Pocatello, Idaho, to begin his new position as fire...   read more

This just in: Generalíssimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and Belgium still has not formed a government.   Like the catchphrase started by Saturday Night Live in 1975 to mock the seemingly unending story of Spain’s dying dictator, Belgium co...   read more

The FBI intends to give its agents more leeway when it comes to investigating suspects, including the ability to search databases, sift through household trash and conduct surveillance without adhering to certain rules that used to apply to such...   read more

The biggest drug-overdose killers in the United States are not illegal substances like cocaine or heroin. Rather they go by names like Xanax, Klonopin, Oxycodone and Hydrocodone.   Death by prescription overdose is now a larger problem than th...   read more