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

Awal Gul, 48, of Afghanistan, has become the seventh detainee to die at Guantánamo Bay since the U.S. began imprisoning foreign nationals at the military base in January 2002.   Gul was held for nine years without being charged or tried for an...   read more

With officers remaining longer in the service, the U.S. Air Force is faced with laying off more than 2,000 commissioned personnel in order to accommodate a shrinking budget. Currently, the Air Force has 2,300 more officers than it can afford, wh...   read more

Sick of his wife, an unidentified immigration officer in the United Kingdom placed the name of his spouse on the government’s no-fly list for suspected terrorists in order to keep her out of the country.   The wife left the UK three years ago ...   read more

If the U.S. still wants to pursue the idea of school vouchers, it should look to Sweden for answers, writes Odd Eiken, executive vice president of Kunskapsskolan Education, the largest private school provider in Sweden. The former state secretary ...   read more

The ambassador to Tajikistan, which is the poorest country of all the former Soviet republics, is Kenneth E. Gross, Jr., who is familiar with Tajikistan from his earlier tour there as the Deputy Chief of Mission from 2002 to 2004. He was nominated...   read more

In one of his first moves during the ongoing political crisis, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appointed Omar Suleiman as his vice president, hoping the change, along with the dismissal of the rest of his cabinet, would placate the hundreds of th...   read more

You know there’s something seriously wrong at an American embassy when staffers ask to be transferred to a war zone, instead of staying put in a cushy European post.   At the U.S. embassy in Luxembourg, life under Ambassador Cynthia Stroum was...   read more

Kelly Williams-Bolar has gained national fame for simply trying to put her daughters into safer schools.   The 40-year-old single mother was convicted in an Ohio court of tampering with records to falsely claim her family lived in the Copley-Fai...   read more

Joseph A. Mussomeli, a diplomat with three decades of experience, took over as U.S. ambassador to Slovenia in October 2010. He previously served as ambassador to Cambodia.   Born in New York City on May 26, 1952, Mussomeli hails from a Sicilia...   read more

Nominated on July 15, 2010, to be the U.S. ambassador desert country of Mauritania and confirmed on October 10, 2010, Jo Ellen Powell, a career member of the Foreign Service, grew up in a Foreign Service family, living in Panama, Saudi Arabia, L...   read more

Described as “shocking” by one lawmaker, the Department of Defense awarded $285 billion over a three-year period to companies that defrauded the U.S. military   Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who requested the Defense report that uncovere...   read more

The administrator of the $20 billion fund established by BP to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should not claim he is independent of the oil company, which is paying his salary, ruled a federal judge.   The ruling by Judge C...   read more

For the first time ever, the federal government will establish health standards for how much perchlorate, an ingredient in rocket fuel, will be allowed in drinking water.   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to take two...   read more

The federal government’s plan to fast-track the building of new electrical transmission towers, intended to reduce the risk of regional blackouts, has been put on hold by an appellate court that sided with a coalition of states and environmental...   read more

Having polycystic kidney disease and a ravaged immune system has not stopped freshman Lyndon Baty from attending high school in Knox City, Texas. With the help of a mobile, four-foot tall robot, Baty is able to attend classes virtually. Vgo can ...   read more

The existence of previously unknown, suspected accomplices to the September 11, 2001, attacks has surfaced as a result of a classified State Department cable published by WikiLeaks.   According to the communiqué dated February 11, 2010, three ...   read more