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

Officials in Oregon may want to post a marital warning for candidates seeking to run for the state’s 5th congressional district seat. It seems being the officeholder pretty much guarantees a failed marriage.   In the 28-year history of 5th dis...   read more

Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations that benefited from the federal stimulus plan owe the IRS more than $750 million in back taxes.   A Government Accountability Office report states that at least 3,700 recipients of $24 billi...   read more

It’s hard to believe that in the second decade of the 21st century there still exists a government so repressive that it does not allow women to drive. But such is the case in one of the United States’ closest allies: Saudi Arabia.   Manal al-...   read more

The Department of Justice is refusing to reimburse $750,000 to the owner of a rare Ferrari that was damaged by an FBI agent.   Stolen in 2003 from a dealership in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, the 1995 Ferrari F50 was recovered by the FBI five years...   read more

A longtime Kentucky politician whose career began in the mid-1970s, Steven Lynn Beshear serves as co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for 2011, along with his duties as governor of his state. Created in 1965, the ARC is an econ...   read more

Martin Andjaba became ambassador of Namibia to the United States in September 2010.   Born on December 17, 1957, in Ontokolo, Northern Namibia, Andjaba obtained in 1981 a Diploma in Public Administration and Management at the United Nations In...   read more

When it comes to investigating corporations of bribery and other crimes, the federal government prefers to save money—and allow suspects to conduct their own probes—than perform their own snooping from start to finish.   Whether the concern is...   read more

A government watchdog group has sued the Department of Justice to force the release of a secret memo used by the FBI to access any American telephone records without court approval.   The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed its civil ca...   read more

Conservatives at the national level can debate about the merits of climate change, but local government officials are not waiting around for the possible impact on their communities.   Having been told by scientists that their city’s weather m...   read more

Summer may mean warmer weather ahead, but not necessarily sunny days for the economy.   Recent figures produced by the Department of Labor have shown an uptick in new jobs, which has heartened some economists and no doubt the White House. In M...   read more

Frustrated over the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and the devaluing of the U.S. dollar, lawmakers in Utah have legalized the use of gold and silver as currency, making the state the first in the country to move in this direction.   ...   read more

The average American pays about 12% of his or her income to federal income tax. Thanks to statistics compiled by US Uncut Chicago, a group that advocates boycotting U.S. corporations that avoid paying taxes in the United States, we now know the ...   read more

Environmentalists are suing the State Department to force the release of documents that might reveal communications between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and an oil company lobbyist over a controversial pipeline project.   Friends of the ...   read more

In support of Senator John McCain’s contention on the subject, CIA director Leon Panetta wrote a letter to the Republican lawmaker that undercuts claims by former Bush administration officials that torture was instrumental in tracking down Osama...   read more

A young man from Arkansas has received the first conviction at trial under the new federal hate crimes law enacted in 2009.   Frankie Maybee, 20, of Green Forest, was convicted by a federal jury on May 19 of multiple counts of committing and c...   read more

If you’re a college student, the odds are your professor will be a Democrat, and that’s good if you want to play it safe when it comes to grading.   A recent study found that Democratic professors are “more egalitarian” than Republican ones wi...   read more