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

The Girl Scouts of the USA received a harsh lesson recently in social media etiquette when they tried to censor online comments calling for a change in the ingredients of their famous cookies.   To date, Girl Scouts cookies are made using palm...   read more

May 13 is the only Friday the Thirteenth of the year 2011. Despite the deep-rooted superstition that this is a day for bad happenings, Friday the Thirteenths in history have seen some positive events. Here are eight of them.   1. Alfred Dreyfus ...   read more

When the human price of fighting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has come up over the past decade, it’s been the death toll of American soldiers that media stories have focused on. But this choice has ignored the fact that thousands of defense con...   read more

Less than two months after it was released to the public, a report on corruption in Afghanistan’s Central Bank has been retroactively classified by the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).   The now-secre...   read more

Neither the Department of Veterans Affairs nor Dell Inc. have bothered to make a big deal out of announcing a new contract worth nearly half a billion dollars, prompting speculation over why.   Quietly revealed on a federal government website (F...   read more

With her term expiring this summer, Sheila Bair has decided five years is enough as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Her departure will cost the Obama administration a progressive voice on banking and Wall Street regulat...   read more

“Jasmine” has become the political equivalent of “fire” in a crowded movie theater for leaders in China, who consider the word dangerous to the point of being unmentionable because it has come to mean one thing: revolution.   After Tunisians ros...   read more

The controversial use of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) to bolster natural gas drilling has been linked scientifically for the first time to flammable drinking water.   Four scientists at Duke University found higher levels of flammabl...   read more

Illinois wants out of a supposedly voluntary federal program in which state law enforcement agencies inform immigration agents about illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. But the Obama administration is refusing to let Illinois out of th...   read more

The U.S. Navy was going to train its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages in military chapels—until Republicans in Congress raised an uproar over the idea.   Following the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Navy altered its chaplain traini...   read more

Acting under the belief that raw milk should never be consumed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a Pennsylvania Amish farmer to court to prevent him from selling unpasteurized milk.   After a yearlong investigation that in...   read more

From the highest to lowest courts in the land, Bob Dylan’s lyrics appear more frequently in legal opinions than any other singer or musical group, according to a University of Texas professor.   After searching legal databases to identify lyri...   read more

The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case involving warrantless tracking of suspects by law enforcement using GPS devices.   Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice reached out to the Supreme Cour...   read more

Strapped for cash, but determined to keep illegal immigrants out, the government of the state of Arizona plans to build more fence-line along the border with Mexico using private donations and prison labor.   The legislature has already author...   read more

Republicans in Florida are preparing to adopt a new law forbidding doctors from asking patients if they own guns.   Representing the first of its kind, the legislation is directed primarily at pediatricians, who routinely ask new parents if th...   read more

Claiming the Obama administration overstepped its bounds, the state of Utah is suing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar over the Department of the Interior’s designation of six million acres of state territory as “wild lands.”   Utah offici...   read more