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

A key defendant in what’s been described as the worst war-crimes case involving U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan has agreed to help military prosecutors.   Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska, a member of the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd...   read more

The U.S. government made 12,017,075 million pages of previously secret documents available to the public last year, a total that might seem impressive if it wasn’t for the goal set by President Barack Obama: 400 million pages by 2013.   The re...   read more

Nearly three years after his culinary encounter with the “dangerous substance,” Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has sued a congressional cafeteria for slipping an olive pit into the politician’s sandwich wrap. The offending morsel allege...   read more

The Great Recession is over for corporate America, but will still be felt by working Americans for years to come.   The most recent data available shows profits for Big Business are 12% above what they were in late 2007, demonstrating that cor...   read more

To better prepare its troops for modern urban warfare, the U.S. Marine Corps has opened a training center in the Southern California desert that’s nearly the size of downtown San Diego.   Known as the Combined Arms Military Operations on Urban...   read more

Juvenile Jordan Brown is set to be tried as an adult by a Pennsylvania court for allegedly murdering his father’s 8½-month pregnant fiancée when he was 11 years old.   The criminal case has garnered attention from child advocates in the U.S. a...   read more

The U.S. government so far has spent $13.4 million to build a special academy in Iraq for security officials without bothering to secure an agreement with the Baghdad government that the Iraqis are prepared to fund it once it’s completed.   No...   read more

Borrowing from America’s habit of blaming violent video games for horrific events, a Russian television news story has raised the question of whether the U.S.-made “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” was partly responsible for the bombing of Moscow...   read more

The Internet “kill switch” is coming back for consideration in the U.S. Senate. Having first been introduced last summer, the legislation, reintroduced by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), would give the preside...   read more

The months leading up to the 2006 midterm elections was a busy time for officials in the Bush administration, what with getting paid for their government jobs while campaigning on behalf of Republican candidates—a clear violation of federal law. ...   read more

From doctors committing identity theft to drug companies illegally marketing their products, the U.S. government recovered a record-setting $4 billion from a variety of medical-related fraud committed in 2010.   In one case, a doctor stole the...   read more

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating this month the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration, amid an ongoing struggle between historians and the Kennedy family over the still-secret files of the president’s brother, ...   read more

Guam has one. So do Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and every one of the 50 states. But soon Kansas won’t have one…that being a state arts commission.   Under Republican Governor Sam Brownback, Kansas will become the only state in the count...   read more

Drones, a mainstay in modern warfare for the American military, may soon become equally commonplace in U.S. law enforcement efforts.   The unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft widely used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are now utilized, in ...   read more

The U.S. government has spent $132 million so far defending Fannie Mae in court, following the September 2008 takeover of the teetering mortgage underwriter and its counterpart, Freddie Mac. Of this total, $24.2 million alone has gone towards le...   read more

Chalking up the problem to a misunderstanding, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged on Monday that he failed to disclose his wife’s income from a conservative think tank for five years, putting him in violation of the 1978 Eth...   read more