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

It’s not as famous as OxyContin, but the prescription drug Klonopin can be just as dangerous.   Around since 1975, Klonopin (clonazepam) was first prescribed to help epileptics control their seizures. Eventually, though, the medication was giv...   read more

A federal appeals court has sided with a group of Native American tribes who claim they have been shortchanged by the U.S. government for nearly two decades over money designated to support reservation life.   Under the 1975 Indian Self-Determ...   read more

Liliana Ayalde has served as the United States Ambassador to Paraguay since August 5, 2008. Ayalde holds a bachelor’s degree from American University, and master’s degree in International Public Health from Tulane University. She is fluent in Sp...   read more

Rigoberto Gauto Vielman presented his credentials as Paraguay’s ambassador to the United States on February 24, 2010.   Gauto was born in Asunción, Paraguay in 1952. He graduated from Cristo Rey High School.   Between 1977 and 1990, he becam...   read more

Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, is suing a collection of American oil and pipeline companies claiming that they have purchased stolen natural gas products from drug cartels.   In the northeast of Mexico, drug bandits have been hijacking ...   read more

It may not be as alluring as California in some respects, but North Dakota has something that would make millions of Californians envious: jobs.   Bismarck and Fargo have the lowest unemployment rates in the nation: 2.9% and 3.7%, respectively...   read more

Even after costing American taxpayers $150 billion since their government takeover, public-private mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should not be subject to greater public transparency, says their federal regulator.   Edward DeMarco,...   read more

An Iowa appeals court has voted 2-1 to reinstate a high school football coach who was fired after his team posted consecutive winless seasons.   The Jesup Community School District terminated Bruce Wall’s contract after the 2008 season. He beg...   read more

A special CD will go on sale next week in Atlanta, Georgia. Producers are not expecting it to make the Billboard Top 100.   The CD will have on it the oral arguments pertaining to a legal challenge to the federal health care reform law by the ...   read more

Having already been the victim of hackers of foreign origin, the Department of Defense has prepared a new doctrine declaring cyber-attacks an act of war that can warrant a conventional military response.   The development of the new cyber stra...   read more

Millions of people around the world could find themselves in the same predicament as the 172,000 Japanese who were forced to evacuate their homes because they lived within 30 kilometers (19 miles) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when ...   read more

Republican Governor Rick Scott signed the legislation that applies to anyone applying for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The program provides block grants to states with the goals of “promoting job preparation, work ...   read more

Cities have a way of altering the intensity of storms as they pass overhead and move downwind, according to researchers at Purdue University.   After analyzing 10 years of data from storms around the Indianapolis area, Indiana’s state climatol...   read more

George Sarris has won his three-year battle with the U.S. Air Force, which retaliated against him after he complained about dangerously-poor maintenance work on American spy planes.   A lifelong civilian mechanic working at Offutt Air Force Ba...   read more

Worldwide emissions of carbon-dioxide increased to record levels last year, prompting scientists to warn that current energy production could make it difficult to meet the goal for slowing down the rate of global warming.   In 2010, CO2 emissi...   read more

Seeking to bring down costs, the Obama administration is implementing a program that collects data on how much hospitals bill the Medicare program for patient care—and hospitals are not happy about it. Hospital payments account for the largest s...   read more