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

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. c...   read more

A native of Pennsylvania, Patricia McMahon Hawkins has served as the United States Ambassador to the West African nation of Togo since August 22, 2008. Hawkins attended Barnard College in New York City and graduated from East Stroudsburg Univer...   read more

Four veterans have launched a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over the use of a large VA campus in West Los Angeles.   The plaintiffs, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union and supported by the Vietnam Vet...   read more

Americans are continuing to be killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and members of Congress are debating whether the U.S. should continue bombing in Libya. But in the meantime, pretty much out of the glare of the media, U.S. forces have been fighting...   read more

The veto has not been a significant political weapon used by President Barack Obama during his two and a half years in office.   Obama has issued a total of just two vetoes since taking office, an average of one veto every 435 days. This avera...   read more

Webcamgate is continuing to haunt school officials in Philadelphia.   Yet another lawsuit has been filed against the Lower Merion School District for illegally spying on students by remotely activating webcams on school-issued laptops. About 1...   read more

British hedge funds and European financial speculators are buying up large tracts of land in Africa as part of investment schemes for American universities. The “land grab,” as described by critics, threatens to force thousands of people off the...   read more

After issuing a report two years ago warning of a possible rise in rightwing extremism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has minimized its efforts to thwart such a threat.   A few months after President Barack Obama took office in 200...   read more

The distance from Wisconsin to Connecticut is not as great as their political divide.   While one state, with Republicans in control of the state capital, is piling up conservative legislative victories, the other, under Democratic control, is...   read more

Accused of bilking the federal government and the state of Texas out of $40 million, the city of Dallas has reached a settlement to resolve fraudulent claims involving the Medicare and Medicaid programs.   According to a press release from the...   read more

School officials can now request locally-grown fresh produce through a federal program designed to provide children with healthy foods.   Thanks to a policy change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, school districts can specify that they w...   read more

It turns out that more children were detained at Guantánamo than the U.S. government previously admitted.   Based on documents newly released by WikiLeaks, the Center for the Study of Human Rights in Americas at the University of California Da...   read more

Citing partisan politics and a misunderstanding of how economics and money supply work together, Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond has decided to withdraw as a nominee for Federal Reserve governor.   The MIT professor’s nomination has encounter...   read more

Getting into trouble has not put a damper on business for the nation’s largest defense contractors.   According to the Department of Defense’s rankings for 2010, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon continue...   read more

The days of having to turn down your television’s volume during commercial breaks may be coming to an end.   Responding to decades of complaints, the U.S. government is crafting rules that will force broadcasters to show commercials at the sam...   read more

Two inmates in Louisiana’s prison system have spent nearly four decades in solitary confinement, raising cries of protests by human rights and prisoner advocates.   The two men in question are Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman Wallace, 69, both o...   read more