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. Forest Service has been ordered by a federal judge to cease a roadside clearing project in Los Padres National Forest in California because it did not consider the effects of the work on endangered species, as required by law.   Judge...   read more

Warren M. Stern was named Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office(DNDO) in August 2010, a position that had been vacant for 18 months. His responsibility is to oversee the department’s nuclear security...   read more

Former British diplomat Carne Ross says he is disappointed by the lack of talk about using non-violent alternatives against Libya’s government for its attacks on civilians. Ross names 10 tactics that should be tried before any violent military act...   read more

Utah politicians have turned their state into the most secretive in the nation, according to critics of a new law that severely restricts public access to government records.   In a space of only one week, the state legislature and Governor Ga...   read more

Despite demands from President Hamid Karzai that all private security contractors should leave his country by January 2011, the U.S. had no qualms about expanding the number of private guards in Afghanistan during 2010.   As of December 31, th...   read more

His lack of knowledge about cattle did not give him away to his Idaho neighbors, nor did his knack of wearing outdated overalls. But locals did eventually discover who Jeffrey John Shaw really was after federal marshals showed up and arrested hi...   read more

Young people shouldn’t have the right to vote, even if it means taking away his own ability to cast ballots in elections, writes Peter Tucci, an editor at The Daily Caller, a conservative website.   Tucci believes the 25 million Americans age 18...   read more

A career diplomat with a cabinet rank of state minister, Akramul Qader has served as ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States since November 2009. In December 2010, he also assumed the role of ambassador to Mexico.   Qader received his ma...   read more

Because of declining home prices at the end of last year, nearly 25% of mortgage holders in the U.S. found themselves with a home that was worth less than their home loan.   According to CoreLogic, the rate of underwater mortgages was 23.1% at...   read more

Some farmers in Florida want to make it illegal to photograph their properties without their permission in an attempt to thwart animal rights groups from making videos about alleged cruelty.   SB 1246, submitted by state Senator Jim Norman (R-...   read more

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) needs to improve its system for identifying E. coli in the nation’s ground beef supply, according to the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.   IG Phyllis Fong found the FSIS i...   read more

The U.S. government will be facing a lawsuit from the heirs of 700 Guatemalans unless it offers a satisfactory settlement for a 1940s experiment that exposed them to syphilis.   From 1946 to 1948, Dr. John C. Cutler injected orphans, prisoners...   read more

Charged with keeping technologies that have both civilian and military uses from falling into the wrong hands overseas, the U.S. Department of Commerce has dramatically cut back on its screening of foreign nationals for American visas, even thou...   read more

Inmates in American prisons have come a long way from the days of making license plates. Nowadays, prisoners are helping build missiles and other sophisticated weapons, and providing dirt-cheap labor in the process.   While earning as little a...   read more

When nine-year-old Christina Taylor was murdered during the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that critically wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the media spent no shortage of time mourning the girl’s tragic death.   When Brisenia Flores, al...   read more

With the help of the AARP, three senior citizens are suing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) over its change to the policy governing reverse mortgages.   Reverse mortgages allow older homeowners to borrow against the equity...   read more