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 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) responded by shutting down the Hanford-based Central Valley Meat Company on Sunday. Still, the question arises as to why USDA inspectors did not discover the abuse themselves and had to rely on video submitted by an infiltrator.   read more

Backing the administration on the issue is the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, which represents major American exporters to Russia, ranging from Caterpillar, John Deere, General Electric, Boeing, Halliburton and Dell to Avon Beauty Products, Wrigley and Walt Disney Studios. If the restrictions were dropped, tariffs on vehicles shipped to Russia, for example, would drop from 15% to 5%.   read more

Former neo-Nazi Marine T.J. Leyden told Reuters, “I went into the Marine Corps for one specific reason: I would learn how shoot. I also learned how to use C-4 (explosives), blow things up. I took all my military skills and said I could use these to train other people.” Leyden later renounced white supremacist causes. Despite such examples, one Army spokesman, Colonel Kevin Arata at Fort Bragg, told Reuters: “We don’t really think this is a huge problem, at Bragg, and across the Army.”   read more

Although Republican State House Majority Leader Mike Turzai had boasted that the voter ID law “would allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,” if large numbers of elderly voters are turned away because they lack ID, it could damage any Republican advantage to win the state.   read more

Until now, the board could question punishments handed down by agencies unless a worker had a security clearance. But a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit voted 2-1 last Friday that the MSPB could also be limited in cases involving “noncritical sensitive” positions—in other words those jobs not requiring a security clearance.   read more

Issues still remain, such as fixing the imbalanced system of discipline. “For example, 78.9% of the students who received detention at Oak Grove Elementary School were African-American despite the fact that African-American students comprised only 21.2% of the enrollment at the school,” James wrote in his consent order.   read more

A bale of hay costs five times more than it did just ten years ago, and the price is expected to rise even more during the winter months. At least 33 states, mostly in the West and the Midwest, are enduring severe drought conditions or worse.   read more

Alcohol not only is okay at the Olympics, it helps pay for them. Heineken UK was an official “provider and supplier” in London, while Budweiser was an official sponsor of Team USA. But don’t get caught using marijuana. American wrestler Stephany Lee lost her spot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team after she tested positive for cannabis.   read more

The political battle between Republican governors and President Barack Obama over amnesty for illegal immigrants continued late last week when two states blocked hundreds of thousands of young people from gaining drivers licenses and other publi...   read more

Two of the nation’s largest defense contractors have enjoyed a virtual monopoly over the launching of Air Force satellites into orbit. But a bipartisan effort in the U.S. House seeks to end the sweetheart deal and open up opportunities for small...   read more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is supposed to be the authority on crime statistics. But the FBI’s numbers are only as good as those provided by local law enforcement, and apparently the bureau hasn’t been verifying what police file wi...   read more

Having lost their lands two centuries ago, members of the Sioux Nation are now trying to buy back a portion of the Black Hills.   The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Native American blog Last Real Indians want to raise $1 million to purchase 1,943...   read more

The biotech industry breathed a sigh of relief last week when a federal court again upheld companies’ ability to patent human genes.   Civil libertarians have challenged the industry, starting with Myriad Genetics, arguing that to own a patent...   read more

Although it might seem obvious, when searching for records related to Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Central Intelligence Agency must actually search for the name “Pablo Escobar,” and must search everywhere they might reasonably be fo...   read more

A new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) paints a picture of the more than three million violent crimes that go unreported in the United States every year. Based on survey responses for the years 2006 to 2010, the BJS report esti...   read more

In the wake of recent mass killings in Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas and Louisiana, 67 survivors and family members of victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting last week sent a letter to President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidat...   read more