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

At a time when lawmakers, especially House Republicans, are looking for any excuse to kill funding for federal programs, the Government Accountability Office has released a report detailing the myriad ways Washington is wasting billions of dolla...   read more

As airlines have jacked up baggage fees for consumers, the cost is increasingly being borne by the government, not passengers.   To avoid paying baggage fees, airline passengers are taking more carry-on luggage with them. That means the airpor...   read more

Dictators Unite! Chávez Friends Gaddafi Original 400-Year-Old King James Bible Found on Shelf Frantic Chinese Communists Harass Foreign Journalists Courtney Love Pays $430,000 in Twitter Defamation Case After Emancipation, Lincoln Encouraged B...   read more

The justification was that key people in drug cartels would be brought to justice. But the prosecutions were slow to happen, and in the meantime at least 797 firearms fell into the hands of dangerous criminals, causing unknown amounts of crimes ...   read more

While publicly bemoaning the passage of the federal healthcare reform law, the nation’s largest insurance companies enjoyed another profitable year in 2010.   Collectively, the five biggest health insurers—UnitedHealth Group, WellPoint, Aetna,...   read more

Placing a relative in a nursing home means putting them in the hands of businesses that often hire convicted criminals.   A report from the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that 92% of all nursing hom...   read more

Tim DeChristopher, who disrupted the sale of federal oil and gas leases in southern Utah three years ago, was convicted in a federal court this week of committing two felonies.   DeChristopher faces up to 10 years in prison, five for making a ...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being accused of putting experts with a conflict of interest on a science advisory committee that reviews cigarettes. The matter arose in litigation filed by two tobacco companies, Lorillard and R.J. Rey...   read more

The state of Arizona would seem to be playing a political game of one-upmanship with itself. After adopting the most controversial anti-immigration law in recent memory, after selecting an official state firearm only two months following the Tuc...   read more

Repeated deployments of American soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their toll not only on the troops themselves but also their families, according to the Department of Defense.   Information disclosed by the Pentagon to the U.S. Sena...   read more

In releasing 8,000 previously classified documents on UFO sightings, the British government has admitted that files on the Rendlesham Forest Incident have disappeared.   In late December 1980, dozens of members of the U.S. Air Force stationed ...   read more

For Pamela J. H. Slutz, who was sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to Burundi on November 2, 2009, the Foreign Service has quite literally been a lifetime experience.   Slutz grew up in the Foreign Service as a “diplobrat,” thanks to her father, ...   read more

Angèle Niyuhire became ambassador of Burundi to the United States in September 2009.   A Tutsi from Uprona, Niyuhire previously served as a Member of Parliament. The 47-year-old official has devoted herself to achieving peace and non-violence ...   read more

Approximately 80% of antibiotics sold in the United States each year are used on farm animals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and that has food and health advocates alarmed. The FDA estimates that 29 million pounds of ...   read more

Claiming the program was too expensive to continue, House Republicans have eliminated former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Green the Capitol” initiative, which involved using only biodegradable cups and dishware in congressional cafeterias.   As a r...   read more

China now holds more than $1.6 trillion in U.S. securities assets, according to the latest figures released by the Department of the Treasury, giving it its largest-ever share of America’s national debt.   Nearly two years ago (June 2009), Chi...   read more