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

There has been so much talk in Washington and in the news about the national debt, terrorism, wars and healthcare that one might think these are the issues that most concern Americans in 2011. But opinion polls consistently show that none of the...   read more

A little more than half of the nation’s states have joined together to challenge the federal healthcare reform law, arguing that the legislation’s core requirement for all Americans to carry health insurance, known as the health insurance mandat...   read more

Echoing the sentiments of most college football fans, including both President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden, the U.S. Department of Justice has posed the question to the National Collegiate Athletic Association: Why no playoffs?   ...   read more

Private security firms stand to earn at least $3 billion guarding diplomats in Iraq, as the U.S. military gradually downsizes its remaining presence in the country.   In September, the State Department announced a list of eight security compan...   read more

With World War II more than 65 years in the past, it is rare to see trials like the one involving Sándor Képíró of Hungary.   Képíró, 97, faces charges in a Budapest court of committing war crimes while a member of the police force that had si...   read more

A federal prosecutor is going after Deutsche Bank AG for bad home loans that wound up costing the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance payments.   U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has filed a civil lawsuit in New York fed...   read more

Boeing has returned $1.6 million so far to the federal government for overcharging the U.S. Army for helicopter parts.   The refund was initiated by an audit from the inspector general of the Department of Defense, which uncovered extraordinar...   read more

Just how accurate are the political pundits who appear on television and write regular columns in newspapers? Students in a public policy class at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, studied the predictions of 26 public figures made between Sep...   read more

Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi has lost control of enormous sums of money that have been stashed away in Western banks, thanks to the efforts of American, British and Swiss officials to freeze assets belonging to the embattled leader.   When...   read more

After telling his listening audience this week that American-made weapons intended for Honduras’ military wound up in the hands of drug cartels, radio journalist Arnulfo Aguilar found himself the target of a late-night attack outside his home. ...   read more

The story of how the United States took down Osama bin Laden has already taken on mythical details, forcing the White House and other administration officials to publicly correct some of the oft-repeated inaccuracies.   A misleading version of...   read more

More than 350 tornadoes struck the southern United States from April 25 to April 28, making it the worst outbreak of its kind in the U.S. since records began being kept in 1860.   A total of 362 tornadoes touched down during the three-day period...   read more

To help cover the deep budget cuts in education funding, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has proposed that some universities open their campuses to natural gas drilling.   Corbett pointed out that six universities sit atop the Marcellus shal...   read more

When determining how wealthy a country is, there’s more to it than simply measuring the size of its economy. A nation can have an enormous gross domestic product (GDP), which is used to classify the top developed states in the world, but if much...   read more

The United Nations faces a serious embarrassment if the government of Syria, which has spent weeks violently cracking down on protesters, is elected to the world body’s top human rights organization.   Since January, Syria, along with India, I...   read more

Contrary to popular belief, the “wasteful spending” slice of the federal budget pie that is often blamed for America’s ballooning national debt is actually a slim one in comparison to decreased revenues. The debtor situation facing the U.S. is a p...   read more