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

Long before KBR, a one-time subsidiary of Halliburton, got into trouble over its government contracts during the Iraq war, the firm was part of a tax controversy involving Lyndon Johnson before he became president of the United States.   In 19...   read more

While the Obama administration has continued to focus its mortgage relief program, the Home Affordable Modification Program, on the problem of risky loans, the biggest cause of foreclosures these days is actually unemployment.   With the natio...   read more

The State Department is refusing to allow the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction to conduct an audit of the department’s multibillion-dollar training program of Iraqi police.   As the State Department sees it, the special inspec...   read more

One of the United States’ most sophisticated spy agencies can find the likes of Osama bin Laden, but it can’t identify those defrauding it before it’s too late.   According to the Baltimore Sun, at least 11 individuals have been charged within...   read more

Long on paper but also long on loopholes, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act adopted by congressional Democrats a year ago is now in the hands of regulators charged with implementing the sprawling legislation that was ...   read more

Homicide detective Alois Mabhunu of Zimbabwe has spent the past two weeks in jail for using the private toilet of dictator Robert Mugabe at an international trade expo.   Mabhunu was on surveillance duty at the trade fair when he found himself...   read more

Goldman Sachs reportedly has been subpoenaed by the Manhattan district attorney, who is investigating the investment bank’s role in the financial crisis.   Wall Street critics have accused Goldman of knowingly selling bundles of bad mortgages ...   read more

America’s efforts to carry out nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan could end up wasting billions of taxpayer dollars once the U.S. military pulls out of both countries.   An examination of projects by the Commission on Wartime Contracting ...   read more

With record floods flushing out the Mississippi River basin, the terminus of the nation’s largest river—the Gulf of Mexico—is set to experience the worst dead zone ever.   The Gulf is no stranger to dead zones, a product of agricultural waste ...   read more

Here is another installment in AllGov’s series of ways in which the federal government spends money on dubious projects.   Just Have Your Avatar Say No Project: Video Game to Teach Girls How to Resist Boys Location: University of Central Flo...   read more

Vice Admiral William E. “Bill” Landay III of the U.S. Navy has served as director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) since August 2010. The DSCA oversees the sale of arms, defense technologies, training and other services to forei...   read more

Many homeowners across the United States have suffered the frustration of having Bank of America try to take away their home even when they were not behind on their mortgage payments and, in some cases, when they didn’t even have a mortgage with B...   read more

Osama bin Laden is dead, and Ratko Mladić is under arrest, but terrorism and war crimes continue to dominate the list of the world’s most wanted fugitives.   War Criminals: Omar al-Bashir The president of Sudan, Bashir is the only current worl...   read more

Acknowledging the important place Wikipedia has established in the world of information, the National Archives has hired its first “Wikipedian in Residence.” Dominic McDevitt-Parks, 24, is a graduate student in history and archives management at...   read more

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for five years, Deborah A. P. Hersman took over the leadership of the NTSB for two years on July 28, 2009, at the relatively young age of 39. However, she was quite experienced with reg...   read more

Adrian Cosmin Vierita arrived in the United States to serve as Romania’s Ambassador to the U.S. on December 23, 2007.Vierita was born in Bucharest on July 4, 1962. He graduated the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna program of post-academic studies in...   read more