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

Doubts have surfaced over the claims by U.S. General David Petraeus that American military forces captured thousands of Taliban warriors in 2010.   Petraeus, then the top commander in Afghanistan, and soon to be the Director of the CIA, said l...   read more

Circumstantial evidence is sufficient for keeping detainees behind bars at Guantánamo, according to a federal appeals court in Washington, DC.   Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi of Yemen was supposed to be released from the U.S. prison, after a ...   read more

Being accused of a crime in the U.S. military can mean spending years in prison before going to trial, and in some cases, being found not guilty.   A review of the military’s court system by McClatchy Newspapers found numerous problems plaguin...   read more

Like a sandcastle at high tide, equity in the American housing market has swiftly eroded in very little time.   Ten years ago, the average homeowner had 61% equity. Today, the percentage has plummeted to 38%. If this trend continues, 2011 will...   read more

AT&T is now reaping the benefits of making large donations to various liberal groups, now that it needs public support for its acquisition of T-Mobile.   In recent years, AT&T has provided funding to the following, all of which have publicly d...   read more

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.   Certainly, in January, 1861, when Henry Wadsworth...   read more

When Cisco Systems helped China build its program for censoring and spying on Internet communications, it became an accomplice in the arrest and torture of political dissidents, according to a lawsuit filed against the high-tech company.   Thr...   read more

Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has been accused of deliberately withholding information from his colleagues in an effort to stop work on the controversial Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada and making decis...   read more

The state of Texas is set to execute a Mexican national convicted of murder who was never informed of his right to receive help from his home government—a violation of international law that threatens to establish a dangerous precedent affecting...   read more

Tiny oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf have been great customers for U.S. defense contractors, which have enjoyed arms deals worth billions of dollars from the region.   In order to become a stronger military presence in the Gulf and challe...   read more

Since October 2007, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been dying at a faster rate in at home than in combat, according to government figures.   For example, 113 veterans of the two wars died in the U.S. in May 2010, while only six...   read more

Sanctions by the U.S. government against Iran have caused a multitude of problems for Iranian-Americans with ties to their home country even though Americans of Iranian origin are overwhelmingly opposed to the ruling regime in Iran.   For inst...   read more

Limbiye Edawe Kadangha Bariki became the Togolese ambassador to the US on July 14, 2009.   Bariki graduated from the University of Benin in Togo (now known as the Univerity of Lomé) and the National School of Administration in Lomé, Togo.   ...   read more

The Obama administration’s effort to make an example of a former National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower has largely failed, now that its case in federal court has fallen apart.   Thomas Drake, an NSA computer specialist, was brought up o...   read more

More than 200 hundred years after it was produced, a book on cryptology is finally being declassified by the U.S. government.   The National Security Agency (NSA) decided that the 1809 book, Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Wr...   read more

Since October 2002, the U.S. State Department has kept track of American citizens who die in other countries from non-health-related causes. The State Department notes that their database is unavoidably incomplete, particularly because most U.S....   read more