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 environmental group says the new goal of 54.5 mpg by 2025 will more likely be reduced to 47 mpg once certain credits, such as those for air-conditioning units, and “flexibilities” are factored in. Not including electric cars, the current commonly available car with the best fuel efficiency rating is the Toyota Prius at 42 mpg.   read more

CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf was quoted as saying it made “sense to get behind the winning horse...Mark and Kathryn’s movie is going to be the first and the biggest. It’s got the most money behind it, and two Oscar winners on board.”   read more

AIDS activists were outraged once they heard how much Gilead intends to charge for the new drug. Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, called the pricing “shockingly irresponsible….It’s just unsustainable at these levels,” he told The New York Times. Industry analysts project Gilead could earn $2.5 billion from sales of Stribild by 2015.   read more

In a particularly bizarre twist of words, Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob Moore told Blomquist that company managers “communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend.”   read more

Instead of government scientists testing new flavorings or preservatives, manufacturers’ own labs or those they contract with perform the assessments. This system has resulted in “the vast majority of new ingredients added to U.S. food” over the last 15 years never receiving a safety determination from the government,” according to the Chicago Tribune.   read more

Most of the decrease is likely due to global warming, itself the consequence of pollution and the cutting down of forests, according to scientists. NASA’s researchers attribute this year’s unusually large loss to Arctic ice not to warm weather this year, but to increased temperatures in previous years that broke down thicker ice cover.   read more

Congress has adopted more than 330 laws that grant the use of administrative subpoena power to dozens of federal offices. This has resulted in agencies issuing hundreds of thousands of these subpoenas every year, without having to officially report just how many of them are being served.   read more

Some banned items came as no surprise: guns, knives, explosives. But so were baseballs, fresh whole fruit, bottled water, flashlights and disposable coffee cups. Footballs, however, are fair game to be tossed around on the convention floor.   read more

Andrea, a former entertainment lawyer, then met physician Todd Katzman, whom she agreed to marry. The two registered for gifts at Bloomingdale’s and participated in a ceremony in Palm Springs on May 2, 2009, after which Andrea told her children she considered herself married to Katzman. She and Katzman even signed a Jewish marriage contract known as a ketubah.   read more

The $66.3 billion in 2011 represented more than 77% of all international arms sales, which totaled $85.3 billion. Russia was the second leading dealer in military goods, selling only $4.8 billion. The enormous U.S. haul was driven largely by deals with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.   read more

This statistical fact would be just another example of income inequality in America were it not for the fact that U.S. taxpayers are paying for defense contracts, and the CEOs’ salaries are factored into the tab for the contracts which, in some cases, are awarded without competition.   read more

Last year, immigrant entrepreneurs founded 28% of all new U.S. businesses, even though immigrants only make up 12.9% of the population. The study also found that new business growth among immigrants increased by more than 50% between 1996 and 2011. In contrast, the business-formation rate for the native-born declined by 10% during the same period.   read more

Using clinical data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the experts found that 12% of young adults had abused prescription opiates. Of this group, 57% had previously abused alcohol and 56% cigarettes. Only 34% had abused marijuana.   read more

U.S immigration courts weren’t designed to handle children. Unlike criminal or family courts, immigration courts provide no legal representation for those who can’t afford a lawyer. This can mean children, some as young as six, have to go before a judge to speak on their own behalf without having any idea what is happening to them.   read more

Real median household income has actually fallen by 4.8% since the recession’s end. Even more surprisingly, they found that the decline since June 2009 was larger than the 2.6 percent decline that occurred during the recession. Adding them together, Green and Coder conclude that average household income has fallen 7.2% since December 2007. According to Green, “almost every group is worse off now than it was three years ago.   read more

Pennsylvania Senior Deputy Attorney General Patrick Cawley admitted under oath that the state was unaware of any case of in-person voter fraud having ever been committed in Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania’s Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai said that the voter ID law would help deliver the state for Mitt Romney in November.   read more