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

Here is one more example that the gap between the super-wealthy in the United States and the rest of Americans is growing wider and wider.   A group of 25 hedge fund executives in 2010 managed to earn a combined $22.1 billion—an amount equivalen...   read more

Three employees of Transocean, owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, have refused to cooperate with a federal investigation into last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.   The U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, ...   read more

For the first time in more than a quarter century, the Small Business Administration (SBA) plans to change the definitions of small businesses with respect to government contracting. The new rules could result in 9,450 additional companies, most...   read more

There is a saying that “There are no atheists in foxholes,” meaning that in times of war, every soldier believes in God. Wrong. A group of atheists, agnostics, humanists and others based at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg have formed an organization ...   read more

Since April 2010, Craig N. McLean has served as Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which is an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   McLean grew up on the Pass...   read more

It turns out that going into banking during the last decade really paid off (literally), regardless of the effects that the financial crisis and the succeeding Great Recession had on the rest of the economy.   Average compensation for bank emp...   read more

Whether it’s $30 billion, $60 billion or $100 billion, slashing the federal budget means cutting back on a lot of programs. But farm subsidies are not facing the axe, and having nearly two dozen lawmakers receiving such financial support may hav...   read more

With the military situation in Iraq no longer requiring the same demand for explosives experts, the U.S. Army is back to finding out the best bomb disposal soldiers it has.   This week, the Army conducted its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team o...   read more

Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al-Mughairy became ambassador of Oman to the United States on December 2, 2005.   Al-Mughairy obtained a B.A in Business Communications from the High Politechnical Institute, Cairo and a Master’s degree in Economics from t...   read more

Perezi K. Kamunanwire has served as Uganda’s ambassador to the United States since May 15, 2006. He previously served as ambassador to Austria, Germany, and the Holy See (1986-1988), and as Uganda’s permanent representative to the United Nations...   read more

No wonder the Federal Reserve fought so hard to keep secret the names of banks that were bailed out during the height of the financial crisis of 2008. The biggest recipients were foreign—not American—institutions that benefited from hundreds of ...   read more

In a move described as “crazy stupid” by one supporter, President Barack Obama decided to accept an award for government transparency—behind closed doors.   Obama was supposed to receive the honor from good-government advocates a couple weeks ...   read more

Bats deserve better. So say federal and university researchers from the United States and South Africa who have pointed out the economic advantage bats provide in protecting agriculture by eating insects that are harmful to crops—and the potenti...   read more

Audrey Patrice Marks became Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States in May 2010.   Marks was born in St. Mary, Middlesex, Jamaica, and graduated from Marymount High School in Highgate. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Managemen...   read more

Carlos Gianelli Derois began serving as Uruguay’s ambassador to the United States on July 11, 2005. A native of Montevideo, Uruguay, Gianelli received a Doctor in Law and Social Studies (1964-1975) at the Law and Social Studies School in Montevi...   read more

Information systems at the Department of Defense may be vulnerable to cyber attacks now that a company it relies on for password-protected networks was itself a victim of hackers.   RSA, maker of the widely sold SecurID authentication system t...   read more