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

The war in Afghanistan, and military operations in neighboring Pakistan, have provided ample business opportunities for ex-CIA and Special Forces operatives to collect intelligence on behalf of the U.S. government—even though it’s illegal for Wa...   read more

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has wasted millions of dollars donated by governments and celebrities to help the developing world.   The Fund was created as an alternative to the United Nations, which long has been acc...   read more

Kicking homosexuals out of the armed services cost the government more than $190 million over a five-year period, due to the expense of removing gays and lesbians and training their replacements.   The Government Accountability Office in a new...   read more

Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not the lead culprits that brought the financial and housing sectors to their knees, as many politicians and critics claim.   The two government-chartered mortgage underwriters played second fidd...   read more

Michele Bachmann is in a class by herself, as far as political fact-checkers are concerned. The outspoken, and often inaccurate, Republican congresswoman from Minnesota has made more than a dozen assertions that either were false or really false, ...   read more

Francis J. “Frank” Ricciardone, Jr., a career member of the Senior Foreign Service who speaks Turkish, has returned to Turkey for his third tour of duty there. President Barack Obama nominated Ricciardone on July 1, 2010. However, Senator Sam Br...   read more

A flop as a spy, Anna Chapman, the daughter of diplomat Vasily Kushchyenko, is now seeking to reinvent herself as a television celebrity in Russia. Chapman was one of ten Russian spies arrested last July in the United States, after gathering lit...   read more

Medical professionals have expressed serious concerns about the U.S. military’s dispensing of antipsychotic drugs to combat soldiers and other personnel.   The U.S. Central Command allows, under its drug formulary, for troops struggling from s...   read more

The state of executions in the United States, already on hold in some states, may continue in stasis now that the nation’s only manufacturer of a key anesthesia used in lethal injections has decided to stop making the drug.   Hospira, based in L...   read more

The Tony-award winning “Slava’s Snowshow” is being sued by an audience member who claims a clown permanently injured him during an August 2008 performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Mark Misleh says the clown jumped on his chest, cau...   read more

David D. Nelson was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Uruguay on December 24, 2009, and was sworn in five days later. As ambassador, he returned to the site of his first Foreign Service posting.   Born in Minnesota, Nelson grew...   read more

The U.S. ambassador to Swaziland, a small absolute monarchy in Africa with the highest prevalence of HIV and AIDS in the world, is a specialist in African affairs.  Earl M. Irving was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 31, 2009, and swo...   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has assumed responsibility for the deaths of more than 300 birds in Yankton, South Dakota. But the USDA insists it had nothing to do with other mass die-offs of birds recently in Arkansas, Louisiana, Ala...   read more

As part of the federal reform of Wall Street oversight, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is deciding whether it or an outside source should oversee investment advisers. One commissioner, Elisse Walter, wants an industry organization—...   read more

The good news for U.S. Army officials is that suicides among active-duty soldiers have gone down a little. The bad news is that suicides of Army Reserve and National Guard troops more than doubled.   From 2009 to 2010, the number of Reserve an...   read more

When playing golf, there are water hazards and then there are real water hazards.   James Wiencek probably had as bad a golf outing as possible, short of death, when he decided to play one of the courses at Fripp Island Resort in South Carolina ...   read more