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

Big Oil is getting to keep its billion-dollar federal tax breaks, for the time being.   On a mostly partisan vote, the U.S. Senate defeated an attempt to eliminate government subsidies for five top petroleum producers: BP, Exxon Mobil, Shell, ...   read more

Demand for emergency medical care increased by more than a third over the past two decades, while the number of available Emergency rooms declined.   A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association states that urban an...   read more

Civil libertarians and immigrant advocates are accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of withholding court-ordered information about its controversial Secure Communities program.   Secure Communities is meant to search out violent ...   read more

Survivors of Argentina’s military dictatorship four decades ago will have to wait for any help from the U.S. government in locating lost relatives, thanks to unwillingness on the part of House Republicans.   Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-N...   read more

It isn’t often that Congress voluntarily gives up power to the President of the United States, but that appears to be the case with a terrorism-related provision added to a military authorization act.   Hidden within the National Defense Autho...   read more

Under no circumstance can residents of Indiana resist police entering their homes, even if there are no legal grounds for officers to do so, according to the state’s highest court.   In a 3-2 ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court found “a right to...   read more

Media organizations and conservatives are rejecting President Barack Obama’s decision to keep hidden the photos of Osama bin Laden’s death, having filed formal requests to see the images.   The Associated Press and National Public Radio, as we...   read more

In a rare meeting of strangers, Sebastiao Lourenco was introduced recently at the New York Organ Donor Network headquarters to the family of the man who gave him another chance at life.   Lourenco, in need of a new heart, received a transplant...   read more

Non-profits providing free legal assistance to the poor have fallen on tough times as a result of budget cuts and the weak economy.   The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a quasi-corporation created by the federal government in 1974 that pr...   read more

A Pakistani-American is expected to testify at a federal trial in Chicago that Pakistan’s intelligence agency supported the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.   David Coleman Headley will tell how he began preparing for the attack two yea...   read more

Having fled the United States, leaving behind a tainted corporate reputation and a trail of legal battles, the man who created the infamous Blackwater security firm has set up shop in the Persian Gulf region, where he’ll be helping Arab dictator...   read more

The last thing the state of Texas needed was another wildfire, having had so many recently, and on top of that, getting the snub from Washington on its request for assistance. But another fire did break out, and the culprit was none other than t...   read more

Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in January 1959, at the age of 31 or 32, and held on until health problems forced him to begin giving up partial control in 2006. He finally retired officially as the leader of the Communist Party of Cuba on April...   read more

Four months after voting to approve a controversial billion-dollar merger between Comcast and NBCUniversal, Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to become a lobbyist for…Comcast.   Baker was one of four...   read more

Last year marked a dark milestone for Medicare and Social Security, as both entitlement programs, for the first time in the same year, paid out more in benefits than they collected in revenue.   This development meant the federal government ha...   read more

If General Motors once again becomes one of the world’s most successful corporations, it will have China to thank in large part.   By taking advantage of the Chinese’s growing hunger for automobiles and road trips, GM is now the No. 2 seller o...   read more