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

It is a big, scary number—$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)—that politicians, including President Obama, military leaders and anti-virus software companies allege is the annual cost of cybercrime. And it is a number that is very likely wro...   read more

Mitt Romney has tapped a leading public relations expert with a long resume of controversial work to help deflect attack ads targeting the Republican candidate’s years at Bain Capital.   Michele Davis, currently a partner at the Brunswick Group,...   read more

The state of America’s children is a decidedly mixed bag, according to a newly released federal report, as the Great Recession continues to take a toll on the youngest Americans. On the plus side, teen pregnancy and violent crime against children ...   read more

Because I am the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, a lot of people have been asking me if I think Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete in Olympic history. The short answer is that he is one of the greatest, but not ...   read more

Although the Supreme Court in June ruled that it is unconstitutional to sentence someone convicted of homicide to life without the possibility of parole if the defendant committed the crime as a juvenile, the response of several states seems to be...   read more

Australia, already the skin cancer capital of the world, is now the first place where fish are known to get the deadly disease as well. The Land Down Under sits under the planet’s largest hole in the ozone layer, a stratum of the atmosphere that a...   read more

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finally launched its online database that’s supposed to provide information on who’s spending what on television commercials related to election campaigns.   But the database is not user-friendly f...   read more

Republican voters in Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District decided this week to keep Tea Partier and Congresswoman Diane Black as their party’s nominee, even though she was accused by her GOP rival of not being anti-Muslim enough.   In the Repu...   read more

Lieutenant General David G. Perkins serves as the commander of the Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which oversees the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers, and training programs located throughout...   read more

Facebook has nearly one billion profiles. It also has tens of millions of phony ones, too.   The social media giant has admitted that nearly 9% of all “users” on Facebook are not real. That translates into 83 million fake profiles, out of 955 mi...   read more

Like it or not, the tobacco industry will continue being monitored and regulated by both the federal courts and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington.   Cigarette makers filed motions to end co...   read more

Alan Gourgue served four years in the Marine Corps and was honorably discharged. But that didn’t stop the military from wrongly arresting him years later, claiming he was a deserter.   The resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is now suing the ser...   read more

A longtime critic of the defense industry, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) surprised many observers when he hired a former Lockheed Martin executive to help him on the Senate Armed Services Committee.   Ann Elise Sauer, a one-time Lockheed vice ...   read more

The United States has often made bad decisions while trying to reconstruct Afghanistan, where hundreds of millions of American tax dollars are going to waste.   As much as $400 million has been spent unwisely on large construction projects, acco...   read more

A federal appeals court has blocked the implementation of Arizona’s late-term abortion law, which was set to take effect on August 2.   The Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in July to stop the...   read more

The Department of Justice has been doing a lousy job of informing other federal agencies about companies that have broken the law and are supposed to be barred from contracting work.   According to the department’s inspector general (IG), the Bu...   read more