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

Teen births declined overall in the United States for 2009, the latest year available according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But a wide disparity exists between states with the highest and lowest rates, which are based on t...   read more

Jestina Clayton is suing the state of Utah for requiring her to get a cosmetology license so she can weave hair—something she claims is unconstitutional.   A refugee from Sierra Leone, Clayton says she was told by a state regulator two years a...   read more

A controversial figure in his own country, Dino Patti Djalal became ambassador of Indonesia to the United States in September 2010, despite calls from human rights groups for President Barack Obama to reject his credentials.   Born on Septembe...   read more

Economic pressures are greater than ever for renters in the United States, as more non-homeowners find the majority of their paychecks going to pay the landlord and utility companies.   Since 1981, the U.S. government has considered that a fam...   read more

Fewer Americans own guns these days, according to a new report that shows a three-decade decline in the percentage of personal and household ownership of pistols and rifles. Using data collected by the federal government, the National Opinion Re...   read more

In the 15 months after President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to decrease the amount of classified information, less than half of all relevant agencies had bothered to establish policies to comply. In fact, in FY 2010, government ...   read more

Food-borne illnesses are costing the United States $14 billion a year in terms of medical care, lost days at work, long-term chronic health problems or deaths, according to a report by the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florid...   read more

In belated appreciation for his “sincere sympathy,” Elvis Presley will be named a citizen of Hungary and have a small park named after him by the Budapest city council.   In January 1957, three months after Hungarians rose up and sought indepe...   read more

Abdoulgassim Khalifa Hafter (a.k.a. Khalifa Hiftar) was a top military officer for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, until the Libyan dictator’s bungled military invasion of Chad in the late 1980s, in which Haftar was taken prisoner and Gaddafi did...   read more

Banks have made a killing off the near-zero interest rate loans provided by the Federal Reserve during the 2008-2009 financial crisis—by taking the money and loaning it back to the U.S. Treasury at rates 12 times higher.   At the request of U....   read more

Not since the Great Depression has so small a percentage of the United States’ income been generated by wages as now.   Last year, only 51% of personal income was derived from working salaries, the lowest since 1929, according to an analysis b...   read more

Wanting a better education for her child, a homeless single mother enrolled her son in a neighboring district’s school—and now faces a 20-year prison sentence and a $15,000 fine.   Tanya McDowell avoided putting her son into a Bridgeport, Connec...   read more

The search for extraterrestrial intelligent life in outer space has shut down in the mountains of Northern California. There, a field of radio dishes operated by the SETI Institute has ceased operating because of state and federal government fun...   read more

Strained relations between the United States and Pakistan probably won’t get any better in light of the latest WikiLeaks revelation that the Bush administration considered the Pakistani intelligence agency as dangerous as al-Qaeda and other terr...   read more

Calling it “nuclear stimulation technology,” the Nixon administration exploded nearly half a dozen atomic weapons in the American West in the hopes of solving what was then feared a coming natural-gas shortage.   Until now little has been writte...   read more

The Obama administration may be considering criminal charges against the operator of the Upper Big Branch Mine, where 29 workers were killed in April 2010.   In a letter to victims’ families, the FBI has mentioned its “investigation into vario...   read more