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

If world leaders want to slow global warming, all they have to do is pick a section of the earth and explode several hundred nuclear weapons, according to scientific modeling performed by NASA that determined what the effects of a nuclear war wo...   read more

In the wake of the murder of four Americans, the U.S. may be considering tougher actions against pirates from Somalia.   Until now, Western powers have tolerated acts of piracy off the eastern coast of Africa. The biggest show of force to date...   read more

Iran has been forced to delay the startup of its first nuclear power plant over problems that may stem from the cyber attack that was first launched nearly two years ago against the country to thwart its attempt to develop nuclear weapons.   I...   read more

Most Americans would be proud to be portrayed as working to counter environmental problems…but not the billionaire Koch brothers. Angry over a joke press release pretending to come from them, Charles and David Koch are suing those responsible fo...   read more

While President Barack Obama has hammered on the power of lobbying in Washington and sought to limit the role of lobbyists in his administration, his aides have been meeting with members of the Third House outside the White House, in an apparent...   read more

The U.S. Air Force may be trying to manipulate social media websites by creating large numbers of phony people to push across desired viewpoints.   Uncovered by Happy Rockefeller of Daily Kos and others, the Air Force has reached out to private ...   read more

Wisconsin is not the only place in the United States seeing clashes between government and public employee unions. Facing a 12% budget shortfall, the school board of Providence, Rhode Island, voted 4-3 this week to send out termination notices t...   read more

If more effort is put into reducing the release of short-lived pollution, the rate of global warming could be slowed dramatically, say scientists in a new United Nations report.   The study produced by the UN Environment Programme found that t...   read more

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House have joined together to kill all funding for the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), a Cold War-era government think tank that’s performed work in Iraq and won praise for resolving conflicts in Afghanistan...   read more

Jeremy Bernard has made history by becoming the first male, and openly gay, social secretary to a U.S. president. Bernard was an early supporter of President Barack Obama and helped raise millions of dollars for his 2008 presidential campaign. H...   read more

America’s most wounded soldier is going back to war.   U.S. Army Captain D.J. Skelton was blown up the night of November 6, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq, when the unit he was leading as a lieutenant was caught in a hail of bullets and exploding gre...   read more

The American Petroleum Institute (API), Big Oil’s chief lobbying operation, has decided to start contributing to political candidates, and that’s good news for the Republican Party.   With funding from corporations like ExxonMobil and Chevron,...   read more

Concerned that anti-government protests like those in North Africa and the Middle East might erupt in their country, Chinese authorities clamped further down on Internet access and singled out the U.S. ambassador for being in the wrong place at ...   read more

The American hate movement continues to grow in size, as the number of such groups topped 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) began keeping track of the organizations in the 1980s.   Last year’s growth marked ...   read more

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated that dogs can not only sniff out cancer in patients, but also determine the particular kind a person has.    At Kyushu University, Yoshihiko Maehara and colleagues trained a Labrador retriever named Marin...   read more

Pamela E. Bridgewater was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica on October 26, 2010.   Bridgewater was born on April 14, 1947, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The daughter of a jazz trumpeter and a bank teller, she attended Walker-Grant High Sch...   read more