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

Thomas Silverstein has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement, and because of that he’s suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons.   America’s “most isolated man” has been held in an extreme form of solitary confinement under a “no human...   read more

Angry over the revelation that Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight in Pakistan, Congress is now debating whether to make changes to the foreign aid given to the United States’ “inconstant” ally, known in some circles as a “frenemy.”   Pa...   read more

The landmark Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which threw out campaign contribution limits for corporations and unions, substantially altered the field of campaign spending.   After examining election reports, the Center for R...   read more

Frustrated over repeated strikes by its workers in Seattle, Boeing has sought to build a new airliner production line to South Carolina, an anti-union state. But the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled the manufacturer must have the ...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a Harvard-connected consulting firm for helping the government of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi without complying with federal law.   Monitor Group, an international consulting firm headquartered...   read more

Liechtenstein is one of the smallest independent countries in the world. With a population of barely 36,000, the choice of possible diplomats is a bit thin, so it is not surprising that the nation’s ambassador to the United States, Claudia Frits...   read more

SafeHouse, The Wall Street Journal’s answer to WikiLeaks, did not get off to a good start with the whistleblowing community.   SafeHouse is supposed to be a place where people can anonymously expose corporate “fraud, abuse and other wrongdoing...   read more

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran has lost a couple of his top aides to charges of sorcery by the country’s leading religious figures.   One, Abbas Ghaffari, was arrested for being involved with spirits and exorcism. One Iranian news websit...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review the case of a Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off her squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had allegedly tried to rape her.   The girl, known as H.S. because ...   read more

After more than 30 years as a diplomat, Patrick S. Moon is finally getting his first crack as an ambassador. After holding a variety of posts covering issues from Africa to Europe to South Asia, he was sworn as U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herz...   read more

A 20-year career diplomat and African affairs specialist, J. Thomas Dougherty received his first chance to serve as an ambassador in taking over the top post at the U.S. embassy in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. He was nominated by Pre...   read more

Osama bin Laden’s death has not left al-Qaeda leaderless, or without presence around the globe.   Stepping in to replace bin Laden as the top al-Qaeda man is Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militan...   read more

Houston, Texas, was not the place to work in 2010 if you were an employee of the U.S. Postal Service. According to the USPS, which issues an annual list to coincide with National Dog Bite Prevention Week, there were nearly 5,700 dog attacks agains...   read more

A member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission since its inception in 2001, William A. Reinsch was first appointed by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, and most recently reappointed to the commission by Senate Demo...   read more

Louis Harold Joseph has served as Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States since September 14, 2010.   Joseph was born in Cap-Haïtien to parents who were both teachers. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the Faculty of Law ...   read more

Journalist Jake Adelstein is suing National Geographic Television to stop it from airing a semi-documentary on the Japanese mafia that he says might get him killed. Adelstein, the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in ...   read more