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

American hospitals and healthcare practitioners are running short of important medications, depriving patients of potentially lifesaving therapies.   The shortage of drugs is considered “unprecedented,” and threatens the well-being of those de...   read more

The United States is on track to spend nearly $3 million a mile on a new highway in southern Afghanistan, making it a monument to corruption and ineptitude.   The Gardez-Khost Road was conceived to link the Afghan government to remote areas of...   read more

A California lawmaker wants to stem the rate of home foreclosures in his state by requiring banks to pay $20,000 every time they seize a property.   Democratic Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, author of the Foreclosure Mitigation Fee (AB 935), pro...   read more

Iraq’s parliament has agreed to a $400 million settlement for Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein’s regime either before or during the Gulf War of 1991.   Some Iraqi lawmakers opposed the deal, pointing out that scores of Iraq...   read more

The news that Osama bin Laden was living in an upscale urban neighborhood in Pakistan rather than hiding out in a cave on the Afghanistan border gives credence to what many observers have been saying for years…that he was receiving support from ...   read more

The five-member pro-business block of the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of corporations that prefer to force consumers with complaints into arbitration hearings, rather than allowing them to band together in class-action lawsuits in civi...   read more

Rather than match demand for gasoline, oil companies are producing less for the U.S. market and exporting more to other countries, while taking increased profits. The result: higher prices at the pump.   The national average for one gallon of ...   read more

The United States is spending less these days on its overseas wars, compared to the peak period a few years ago. But that doesn’t mean the cost of continuing combat operations isn’t absorbing a tremendous amount of money.   Not including the n...   read more

Having collected only about $750 million for his 2008 election, President Barack Obama has decided he needs someone different this time to raise money for his 2012 reelection campaign. Thus, Matthew Barzun, current ambassador to Sweden, has been c...   read more

Local law enforcement has been left picking up the cost of cleaning up busted meth labs now that the federal government has axed all funding for such work.   Due to budget cuts by President Barack Obama, the Drug Enforcement Administration has...   read more

Not since the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia in June 1996 has the U.S. Air Force lost so many personnel in a hostile attack as it did on April 27, when an Afghan pilot opened fire on American service members at Kabul Air Base.   Eight of th...   read more

Arguing the move would stigmatize poor people at the checkout stand, the soft drink industry is opposing a plan by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban the use of food stamps to buy “sugar-sweetened beverages.”   Bloomberg says the res...   read more

A longtime Labor Party politician, Kim Christian Beazley has served as Australia’s ambassador to the United States since September 2009.   Beazley was born on December 14, 1948, in Perth, Western Australia. His father, Kim Beazley Sr., served ...   read more

Phyllis M. Powers has come a long way from her days as a medical technologist in the 1970s. Powers was nominated by President Barack Obama in July 2010 to become ambassador to Panama. She was confirmed by the Senate on August 8.   A native of ...   read more

Along with a refinery operated by Valero Energy Corporation, BP’s Texas City, Texas, refining operation has once again polluted the air of local residents, this time with a discharge of 150,000 pounds of pollutants.   The releases by Valero an...   read more

Timothy Roemer, U.S. ambassador to India, has resigned his post and is coming home. Why Roemer is leaving after barely two years is a matter of much speculation.   Sworn in the U.S. ambassador to India on July 23, 2009, Tim Roemer is an exampl...   read more