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

Washington State’s decision to end funding for food stamps for legal immigrants has prompted a class action lawsuit claiming the move was unconstitutional.   Effective February 1, the state government will cease all funding for its Food Assist...   read more

Looking for a way to raise revenues for a cash-strapped state budget, lawmakers in Hawaii are considering charging anyone requesting a copy of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.   Under legislation introduced in the state House of Rep...   read more

James J. Sandman, a specialist in pro bono legal work, spent three decades with an international law firm and then became the top legal official for the District of Columbia’s school system before accepting the job to lead the Legal Services Cor...   read more

David Hansell has been the acting assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services, since July 2010. Created in 1991, ACF finances and oversees social and economic pro...   read more

The government of Egypt’s attempted crackdown on mass protests has been aided by an American firm that sells telecommunications software that allows the authoritarian regime to spy on citizens’ emails and cell phone communications.   Narus, lo...   read more

Protestors in Egypt told ABC News that some of the tear gas being used against them by the riot police is manufactured in the United States. Spent canisters bearing the “Made in U.S.A.” label were turned over to the news outlet, which verified t...   read more

Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment that didn’t pan out, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is determined to use advanced technology to improve border monitoring between the U.S. and Mexico—even if it means dupli...   read more

While loud demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen have captured worldwide attention, quieter protests have gone on for the past two weeks at Guantánamo Bay.   Inspired by the movements in North Africa and the Middle East, and to mark the n...   read more

Jerry P. Lanier was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Uganda on August 4, 2009. In an October 19, 2009, cable released by WikiLeaks, Lanier praised Uganda’s progress, but warned that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s “autocratic tendencies, as wel...   read more

For all the hoopla about the huge dump of State Department cables by WikiLeaks, you’d think that they had flooded the Internet with hundreds of thousands of unedited material. In fact, as of January 29, WikiLeaks had released a mere 1% of the ca...   read more

The Veterans Benefits Administration gave out more money in disability payments than it should have over a span of 18 years, costing the government about $1 billion.   According to the inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...   read more

After 42 years of service, including 14 as director, Daniel Mulhollan is stepping down as head of the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The longest-serving leader in CRS history made a point of keeping his shop strictly neutral so as not to ...   read more

George A. Krol was nominated as U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan on July 1, 2010.   Krol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1956, and raised in Manchester Township, New Jersey, the youngest of three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Krol. He a...   read more

Helen Reed-Rowe, a member of the Senior Foreign Service, is the first U.S. ambassador dedicated to the Republic of Palau. Previously, the American ambassador to the Philippines used to also handle diplomatic relations with the tiny Pacific islan...   read more

Things had already reached a state of critical mass with the overloaded federal courts in Arizona when Jared Lee Loughner shot U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, including John Roll, the state’s senior judge, who died. But the...   read more

A Democratic congressman and a government watchdog group have accused the Obama White House of placing a higher importance on public relations than on scientific opinion during last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.   Reacting to a gover...   read more