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

After al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in Kenya on August 7, 1998, Osama bin Laden said the American diplomatic mission was targeted because it was serving as a major CIA station.   It turns out the former terrorist leader was right.   Among...   read more

For years secrecy trumped communications within the U.S. Department of Energy, resulting in the United States now facing a critical shortage of a rare gas needed for detecting nuclear weapons smuggling.   At one end of the Energy Department is...   read more

Lawmakers and government watchdogs have stepped up their calls for the White House to fill the State Department’s inspector general position which has been vacant since January 2008.   The Government Accountability Office and elected officials...   read more

The effects of hackers who infiltrated a computer security firm in March are still being felt, this time at Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors.   EMC Corp’s RSA security division was hacked two months ago, leaving vulnerable numerou...   read more

Under the guise of combating instability in the Middle East and countering Iranian influence, the royal family of Saudi Arabia has taken military and diplomatic steps to reduce the likelihood of more democratic revolutions gaining power in the r...   read more

In the nearly 40 years that the government has been keeping track of employment rates for African-Americans, the percentage of adult black men with jobs had never fallen below 60%. But in February 2009, the first month of the first term of the n...   read more

Nearly 10 years ago, detainee Abu Zubaydah lost his left eye while in the custody of the CIA at a secret location. To this day he says he doesn’t know why the Americans removed it.   During his capture in Pakistan in March 2002, Zubaydah was s...   read more

If AllGov readers are any indication, the dominant concerns in May have been peace, jobs and the end of the world, although health care and dictators were not far behind.   1. Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Impr...   read more

When General Motors and Chrysler were bailed out by the Obama administration, they received not only billion-dollar deals, but also a get-out-jail-free-card for auto liability lawsuits.   Today, the newly reborn car makers don’t have to pay th...   read more

Within three years, most airline passengers in the U.S. will have to pass through full-body scanners before boarding planes, exposing them to radiation levels that the government says are safe but that some scientists have questioned. The move t...   read more

Federal law has long prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions, except in cases of rape or incest. But this exception does not apply to female members of the military who are raped and become pregnant.   Democrats, civil liberta...   read more

In order to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States in May 2009, U.S.-born scholar Michael B. Oren had to relinquish his American citizenship, because the Jewish state does not allow dual citizens to represent it overseas.   When newly...   read more

Muktar Djumaliev became ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States in December 2010.   Born on June 22, 1972, Djumaliev earned an undergraduate economics degree from the National University of the Kyrgyz Republic in 1994, and three years la...   read more

During the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve made short-term loans worth at least $100 billion to banks without bothering to tell shareholders or Congress. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), who co-authored the 2010 financial regulat...   read more

In addition to bungling its job looking for billion-dollar Wall Street fraudsters, such as Bernard Madoff, or allowing employees to surf for porn, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) itself broke the law by buying faulty computers.   ...   read more

Recent cases of American Muslims arrested for plotting terrorist acts were little more than government entrapment operations, says a study from New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.   Three terrorism cases in New Yo...   read more