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

Plastic surgeons are still performing a lot of breast implants, while other popular cosmetic operations are on the decline.   According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of breast implants increased 39% in the past decade...   read more

New Orleans’ worst hospital nightmare after Hurricane Katrina will be relived in a courtroom beginning this week as the trial against Memorial Medical Center and its former parent company, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, commences. Jury selection is...   read more

With Twitter officially turning five years old this week, the opportunity arose to look back and see how the social media website first presented itself to the Internet world. Like other important communications before it, Twitter’s inaugural word...   read more

School officials may not enjoy qualified immunity in all cases of searching the cell phones of students, based on a recent court ruling out of Texas.   Judge Nancy K. Johnson found in the case of Alexis Mendoza that an assistant principal, Ste...   read more

Despite having visited the United States numerous times before, women’s rights activist Malalai Joya has been denied a visa by the American embassy in Afghanistan.   Joya was planning to travel around the U.S. for three weeks to promote the pa...   read more

Losing both of his legs did not mean the end of Captain Brian Brennan’s career in the U.S. Army.   Brennan, 23, has become the first double amputee to lead a company of recruits through basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia.   On May 7, 20...   read more

In rushing through legislation that cut off funding to National Public Radio (NPR), House Speaker John Boehner has violated his own pledge to give the public at least three days to review a bill before taking it up.   On Tuesday, legislation w...   read more

The Department of Defense wants military lawyers representing Guantánamo detainees to abide by strict rules before representing their clients at military tribunals. But the head of the military lawyers is protesting the move, saying the conditio...   read more

When is a $20 billion legal settlement not such a bad thing? When the fine print contains potentially tens of billions of dollars in future savings to make up for it.   A loophole in a foreclosure fraud settlement case could change the way ban...   read more

Officials with the St. Louis Art Museum are fighting an attempt by the U.S. Attorney’s office to have an ancient mummy mask returned to Egypt, from where it was allegedly stolen decades ago.   The artifact in question is the 3,200-year-old mas...   read more

Francisco Altschul Fuentes was appointed ambassador of El Salvador to the United States in March 2010.   Born in Antiguo Cuscatlán on December 31, 1948, Altschul studied architecture at the University of El Salvador. He went on to study urban ...   read more

The State Department cables released by WikiLeaks have claimed their first big fish in the U.S. diplomatic community as U.S. ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual was forced to resign on March 19, 2011, after complaints by Mexico’s president, Feli...   read more

Rupert Murdoch is being sued by News Corp. shareholders over his proposed acquisition of the Shine Group, a television production company owned by his daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, for $675 million.   The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, Amalgama...   read more

Paying nearly $600 million as a result of lawsuits really isn’t that bad when the product that supposedly got you into trouble earns billions of dollars each year.   That’s the reality for pharmaceutical manufacturer AstraZeneca, maker of the ...   read more

America’s top military commander in Afghanistan has taken action against those accused of killing two local youths who were tending their farms in the eastern province of Kunar.   General David Petraeus suspended a ground forces commander and ...   read more

Béla Szombati is a veteran diplomat who served as Hungary’s ambassador to France and the United Kingdom before arriving in Washington, DC, in September 2009.   Szombati was born on July 16, 1955, in Tel-Aviv, Israel, where his father, a career...   read more