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

Authoritarian regimes in the Middle East have had plenty of help from American firms when it comes to censorship and spying on pro-democracy protestors.   One of the biggest players is Intel-owned McAfee Inc., provider of content-filtering sof...   read more

Scientists from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom claim the animal death toll from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have been dramatically higher than officially reported.   About 100 dead whales, dolphins and other...   read more

Four women from New Jersey are suing Campbell Soup for implying that its low-sodium soup contains less salt that its regular tomato soup. The plaintiffs insist the more expensive specialty soup does not have 25% less sodium, as Campbell leads co...   read more

Harley Lappin, head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has submitted his resignation after being arrested for drunk driving.   Lappin, the bureau’s director since April 4, 2003, announced on March 25 that he would step down. The decision came a...   read more

Picking up where the previous state attorney general—current Governor Andrew Cuomo—left off, New York AG Eric Schneiderman is going after Indian Point, one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants, arguing that its attempts to avoid fire safety...   read more

House Republicans have passed legislation four times this year killing the Obama administration’s home-loan modification program, with the latest attempt coming just this week. But the bills have had no chance of becoming law, due to opposition ...   read more

The nation’s largest financial institutions continue to sit on more than $1 trillion in excess reserves, a fact that has stymied economic growth during the recovery and that now poses a serious dilemma for the Federal Reserve. These are reserves...   read more

Exposed as spies and kicked out of the country, two Russian agents are seeking the return of their personal property from the United States, including computer equipment that may have aided their spying.   Vladimir and Lidia Guryev (aka Richar...   read more

Three police officers from El Reno, Oklahoma, will face trial for repeatedly shooting an 86-year-old woman with a Taser gun, a local judge has ruled.   The officers went to the home of Lona Varner on December 22, 2009, after her grandson and a...   read more

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution gives automatic citizenship to any baby born in the United States. Immigrants arriving in the United States to give birth so their children will automatically become American citizens are not ...   read more

Proposing a connection between pollution and outbreaks of serious disease in certain regions, environmentalists and health advocates have compiled data showing the existence of more than 40 disease clusters in 13 U.S. states since 1976.   Cond...   read more

Considered a valuable source for understanding American policymaking overseas, the State Department’s “Foreign Relations of the United States” series has been missing important accounts about Iran and Congo due to CIA opposition.   The unpubli...   read more

André Bamberski is finally getting what he has sought for 28 years: the trial of his daughter’s accused killer, Dieter Krombach of Germany. What makes Krombach’s case unusual was how he came to be in the custody of French law enforcement.   Kr...   read more

Carole A. Smith does not fly around on a broom, wear a black pointy hat or cast spells. But the misperceptions of what constitutes a witch—someone who practices Wicca—was more than enough to get her fired from her job with the Transportation Sec...   read more

A huge sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, now a decade old, will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court today, as the retail giant tries to minimize the number of employees involved in the civil case.   Plaintiffs first filed their c...   read more

Of the 12 nations that carry out the most executions in the world, the United States is the only one that is not Muslim or Communist.   China is the world leader in carrying out executions, performing at least a thousand or more in 2010, accor...   read more