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

Organic boosters also noted that, despite the headlines that accompanied the release of the results, the Stanford study actually substantiated one of the advantages of consuming organic food, specifically that it can lead to an 81% reduction in exposure to toxic and carcinogenic agrichemicals.   read more

Since August 2010, Sheriff Babeu has requisitioned more than $7 million worth for his county, which is located between Phoenix and Tucson in south-central Arizona. Sheriff Babeu and his supporters claim there was no rule against lending the equipment, and that the Sheriff’s office received verbal approval for the practice it calls widespread.   read more

75 students from nearby Coconut Palm Elementary School in Miramar arrived at the local Wal-Mart to perform “God Bless America” in a tribute to the September 11, 2001, victims, only to be rebuffed by store management, who called them a “liability” and called the police to report a mob.   read more

About 100 people from El Alberto (out of a population of about 830) are employed by the Caminata Nocturna (Night Walk), which offers the four-hour, 7.5-mile journey that simulates the ordeal of unauthorized entry onto American soil, including physically demanding activities like running from the authorities, avoiding cactus plants and crawling under barbed wire fences.   read more

Nominated by President Obama on July 10 to be the next ambassador to Poland, Mull was expelled by the communist government there in 1986. He did such a good job of reporting on Solidarity activities that the Polish government accused him of espionage and ordered him to leave the country three weeks before his term was up; he stayed and left on schedule.   read more

The South Dakota-based meat processor wants $1.2 billion in damages from the network, which was named a defendant along with reporter Diane Sawyer and Gerald Zirnstein, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) microbiologist who coined the term pink slime in 2002. Beef Products chose ABC to sue because of its “sustained, concerted, long-duration attack.”   read more

Officials said the public will be able to visit the archives and access its collections of documents, but by appointment only. Even these appointments will be limited because staff will also be reduced.   read more

Stephanie Kirschner and Brad Kane claim Eden Memorial Park did not ask their permission to relocate the ashes of Jeannine Kane, who died in 1979. They say in their lawsuit the move was motivated entirely by money, believing the spot adjacent to the famous comedian Marx could be sold to the highest bidder.   read more

Walter E. North has spent his career at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Most recently, North served as USAID mission director in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 2007 to 2011, and as USAID mission director in Cairo, Egypt, from 2011 to 2012.   read more

"This Court rejects the Government’s suggestion that American citizens can be placed in military detention indefinitely, for acts they could not predict might subject them to detention, and have as their sole remedy a habeas petition adjudicated by a single decision-maker.”   read more

During a February speech to the Human Rights Campaign Gala, Sebelius advocated for the election of Walter Dalton, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, to the governorship. She also told the audience it was important to reelect President Barack Obama in November. Sebelius appeared at the event in her official capacity as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Under federal law (the Hatch Act), administration officials are prohibited from making “extemporaneous partisan remarks.”   read more

Prior to the Bush administration’s establishment of warrantless wiretapping, such spying had to be authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. That court now has been relegated to largely rubber-stamping eavesdropping missions on American communications. Republicans were largely responsible for the bill’s passage. However, not all GOP lawmakers approved it.   read more

Of the 90 arrests, the majority were for DUI and domestic violence arrests. Others, though, were charged with crimes such as possessing child pornography, sexual assault and murder. The newspaper compared the DC police to their counterparts in Philadelphia. So far in 2012, 18 DC officers have wound up behind bars. In Philadelphia, only six out of 6,600 were arrested this year.   read more

“Avoiding annoyance is never a proper basis on which to curtail protected speech,” wrote Judge Joel Flaum for the panel. “We cannot conceive of an annoying behavior, however annoying it may be, that could constitutionally draw as a remedy dispersing others engaged in protected speech.”   read more

Since 2004, DHS has spent about $100 million a year sending undocumented Mexicans by plane to Mexico City. It used aircraft to return immigrants a thousand miles away with the hope that the distance would dissuade them from traveling all the way back north to the border. By this summer, however, the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were picking up fewer illegal immigrants—to the point where officials had trouble filling up flights.   read more

“The report also sheds light on the failure of the George W. Bush administration, in the pursuit of suspects behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, to distinguish between Islamists who were in fact targeting the United States and those who may simply have been engaged in armed opposition against their own repressive regimes."   read more