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

A longtime diplomat and cabinet official, Alfredo Vicente Chiaradia became ambassador of Argentina to the United States in December 2010.   Born on February 15, 1945, in Bahía Blanca, Chiaradia received his master’s degree in political economy...   read more

In Florida, where Republican lawmakers want to prevent public employee unions from collecting dues through government payroll systems, labor leaders have decided to pull their organizations’ accounts from banks connected to the Florida Chamber o...   read more

Match.com, the popular online dating website, has announced it will begin screening applicants against the national sex offender registry after it was sued by a woman claiming she was raped by someone she met through the service.   The new pol...   read more

Late for his show in the nation’s capital on April 19, Charlie Sheen received a police escort from the airport to the event venue, traveling up to 80 miles per hour along the way.   On the way, Sheen tweeted: “in car with Police escort in fron...   read more

1. In 2009, more than 1.7 million babies or 41.0% of all births were to unmarried women. For African-American, Native American and Hispanic women, a majority of births were out-of-wedlock. 2. The birth rate for mothers between the ages of 40 an...   read more

Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has taken exception to the assertion by The Wall Street Journal that it’s pointless to increase taxes on the wealthy.   Journal editors claimed that even a 1...   read more

It was one year ago that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up, killing 11 workers and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Since the accident, Congress has held 60 hearings and introduced 150 bills to improve th...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama has taken the position that law enforcement should be allowed to monitor Americans without a warrant.   The administration has appealed a federal appellate court ruling that nullified...   read more

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has given up his political hostages –namely, all of President Barack Obama’s unconfirmed nominees—in exchange for $50,000 to study a key port back home.   After learning that his pet project ...   read more

Dr. Larry James, the former chief psychologist at Guantanamo, is facing potential investigation by the Ohio State Psychology Board for allegedly overseeing the torture of detainees.   Four Ohio residents have petitioned a local court to compel...   read more

San Diego Coastkeeper, an environmental group, has accused the U.S. Marine Corps of violating the Clean Water Act by polluting the Pacific Ocean with raw sewage and sludge. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court, the pollution originated fr...   read more

American Big Business increasingly gave up on hiring U.S. workers last decade, opting instead to expand hiring in foreign countries where labor is cheaper and regulations fewer in number.   A review by The Wall Street Journal of data from the ...   read more

Agricultural tax breaks aren’t just for the benefit of farmers, but also for the exploitive use of America’s rich and famous. Yasha Levine of The Nation points out some prime examples:   Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers and the second-r...   read more

A coalition of organic farming interests have sued Monsanto in what they say is a preventive measure to stop the corporation from unfairly litigating them over the spread of patented seeds.   Increasingly, genetically-modified seeds produced b...   read more

When is the releasing of one million government records not that impressive? When the information in question is missing hundreds of thousands of details.   That’s the case with the White House visitor logs. After being sued by government watc...   read more

The Arabic language has no transliteration standards, few vowels and myriad pronunciations for names, adding up to a real nightmare for banks trying to comply with government sanctions against Middle Eastern dictators.   Economic sanctions com...   read more