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 two American journalists from Current TV, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were arrested in North Korea on March 17th, are now facing trial in early June. The women have been indicted on charges of illegally entering the country and for committing...   read more

President Barack Obama has quietly presented a proposal that would allow him to bypass Congress in his efforts to reduce global warming. It is the “Endangerment Finding,” which is a scientific finding by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) d...   read more

If confirmed by the Senate, the Treasury Department’s top lawyer will earn nearly ten times more in compensation from his former employer than he will from his government salary. George W. Madison has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be...   read more

Former IRA prisoner Pol Brennan is set to be deported May 18. His only hope of staying in the US is if Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano grants him a special deportation waiver due to the hardship his deportation would cause his Amer...   read more

If President Barack Obama manages to serve two terms in office, he will leave the White House just as the nation’s most important health care program collapses—based on current projections and if nothing is done to shore up Medicare. It’s not exac...   read more

A staple of American breakfasts since World War II, Cheerios has run afoul of the Food and Drug Administration. For two years now, the maker of the cereal, General Mills, has claimed on Cheerios boxes that its product can “lower your cholesterol 4...   read more

The Department of Energy, overseer of the nation’s most toxic cleanup operation, allowed a private contractor to authorize its own payments for work billed to the government, according to the department’s inspector general (IG). The audit that tur...   read more

When the federal government decided to deregulate the airline industry in the late 1970s, it had to ensure that small town America wasn’t left behind once commercial carriers were given the right to decide where they flew and how much to charge....   read more

Nearly half of the billion dollars the U.S. government spends each year on office printing is unnecessary, according to a new survey. Federal employees spend $1.3 billion annually printing out documents, much of which they don’t really need. The p...   read more

After 110 days in office, President Obama is trying to take a big step in reversing an important trend that he opposed during the presidential election campaign. The new proposed federal budget, which was released last week, outlines the administr...   read more

The American people have spoken. As President Barack Obama’s transition team wrapped things up before he officially took office in January, staffers compiled a list of the most pressing issues facing the country, based on feedback from the populac...   read more

Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, the man who told of a phony connection between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while being tortured, has died in a Libyan prison, allegedly of suicide. Al-Libi was the unnamed source that former Secretary o...   read more

The U.S. military has launched a full-scale public relations battle over an attack in Afghanistan last week that apparently involved a chemical outlawed by international treaties. At issue is who used white phosphorus on the people of Farah provin...   read more

In April 2009, President Obama proposed Carlos Pascual as the next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. This was a controversial choice because his specialty is not Latin America, but rather converting newly independent or failed states to democracy and fre...   read more

Throughout the United States’ “War on Terror,” various services have been contracted out to private firms. These service contracts, which can range from equipment and weapons manufacturing to diplomatic security details, are often awarded without ...   read more

“Who’s next?” was the question being asked by Wall Street executives and consumer advocates alike following the landmark decision by Goldman Sachs & Company to pay up to $60 million for brokering risky home loans during the subprime mortgage craze...   read more