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

The U.S. Department of Energy is being sued by the Sierra Club for supporting a new coal-fired power plant and strip mine in Mississippi with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in incentives.   The 582-megawatt project, a pet project of ...   read more

Businesses owing $3.8 million in back taxes to the IRS received $356 million in contract work from the tax agency in 2009.   The inspector general for the IRS discovered this fact as part of a recent audit that also revealed companies owing ta...   read more

Alleged conspiracies and secret military missions aren’t the only things kept secret by the government. When an American files a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn more from an agency, officials are just as likely to deny releasi...   read more

Sounding more like operators of retail businesses than scallywags of the high seas, pirates from Somalia have decided their inventory of hostages has grown too large, and are going to offer reduced ransom demands so they can increase turnover of...   read more

Through the IRS and the Department of Justice, the Obama administration is signaling a much tougher position towards medical marijuana dispensaries.   In Northern California, the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana has been told by IRS offici...   read more

After going nearly 20 years without having one of its own shot to death in the line of duty, the U.S. Marshals Service has had two killed so far this year.   Both marshals who died in 2010 were assisting local law enforcement apprehend non-fed...   read more

Madison, Wisconsin, last weekend outdid the Tea Party, but couldn’t top pro-immigration forces.   Decrying Republican attacks on organized labor, a crowd estimated by police to number 85,000 to 100,000 people showed up at Wisconsin’s state cap...   read more

Researchers are continuing to search for the definitive cause of last week’s massive fish die off in King Harbor, located in Redondo Beach, south of Los Angeles.   At least a million sardines died from lack of oxygen, scientists have determine...   read more

Investors fueling personal injury lawsuits against businesses by loaning money to plaintiffs are pushing for legal protections in several states.   These lawsuit lenders, which include banks and hedge funds, argue that their efforts should not...   read more

What if the American people could vote on which parts of the national budget should be cut and which should see increased spending? Would the results be different from what Congress and the president are doing? Apparently so, according to an unu...   read more

The Obama administration’s united front on the WikiLeaks controversy has fractured, as evidenced by a member of the State Department criticizing the Department of Defense’s treatment of a soldier accused of giving classified information to the w...   read more

Phoenix, Arizona, may not be the “kidnapping capital” of the United States after all.   Having earned the nickname because of high numbers of reported kidnappings, Phoenix is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice on suspicion o...   read more

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is not only a result of combat experience, but also rape, argues U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine). That’s why the congresswoman wants the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover PTSD claims by m...   read more

Banny deBrum has served as ambassador from the Marshall Islands to the United States since 1996, except for a 20-month period in 2008-2009.   DeBrum graduated from Xavier High School in Micronesia in 1977, and Regis University, a Jesuit instit...   read more

To hear some Japanese officials talk, you might think that the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was unavoidable. In fact, the plant has a long and disturbing history of trouble that includes damage by previous earthquakes, rig...   read more

Fed up with Governor Scott Walker’s effort to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees, firefighters in Wisconsin protested this week outside a Republican-friendly bank and withdrew so much money from accounts that bank offic...   read more