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

Just a few months after closing a manufacturing plant in London, Ontario, in order to transfer its work to a site in Indiana where workers would work for lower wages, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Inc., is demanding that workers at its...   read more

Unless Congress acts to fix a massive financial crisis it created, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will default on a $5.5 billion pension payment to the U.S. Treasury due on August 1, as well as another $5.6 billion payment due on September 30. The...   read more

In a “major victory” for environmental activists, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court last week struck down crucial parts of the state’s controversial Act 13, thus restoring zoning authority over natural gas drilling to local governments, which had ...   read more

Things are looking up at the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a federal investigative and prosecutorial agency, following years of poor leadership under the Bush administration.   Responsible for investigating federal whistleblower disclosures a...   read more

Once again, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been criticized for illegal hiring practices involving relatives of current employees.   The current nepotism problem was uncovered by the department’s inspector general (IG) who reported seven exa...   read more

In the wake of the resignation of career diplomat Cameron Munter, who was a casualty of Pakistani anger over civilian deaths and U.S. covert actions there, President Obama on July 17 nominated career diplomat Richard Olson, who served as Coordinat...   read more

On May 22, 2012, Lieutenant General Thomas P. Bostick became the 53rd U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Lieutenant General Bostick serves as the senior military officer overseeing most...   read more

The State Department does not have to release documents already published by WikiLeaks, said a federal judge in a case brought by civil libertarians.   The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the State Department to force the release of 2...   read more

President Barack Obama, opting for continuity as the U.S. prepares to draw down its military presence in the war torn nation of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, on July 17 nominated veteran diplomat James B. Cunningham, currently deputy Ambassador ...   read more

Lynne Halbrooks became the Acting Inspector General for the Department of Defense on December 25, 2011, succeeding Gordon Heddell. The DoDIG is supposed to operate independently to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse through audits and inve...   read more

Twenty years after it helped establish a United Nations arms embargo on war-torn Somalia, the United States is now violating this international effort by helping local militias fighting Al-Qaeda.   According to the UN’s Somalia Eritrea Monitorin...   read more

With much of its surface covered in ice, Greenland continues to demonstrate the effects of global warming. And that’s not all bad, as far as the enormous island’s tourism industry is concerned.   Scientists from the United States recently notice...   read more

Hoping to fare better at nurturing the development of solar energy without enraging environmentalists, antagonizing financial interests and otherwise giving solar a bad name, the Obama administration announced a change in strategy this week.   I...   read more

Can the critics call it the second coming of the Peripheral Canal if the conduit used to divert water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for shipment to Central Valley farmers and thirsty Southern Californians . . . is a tunnel?   During th...   read more

With severe drought conditions threatening to drive up crop prices, many farmers want to expand operations onto questionable lands in the hope of making more money. To help farmers take on this risk, Congress is considering a new crop insurance pr...   read more

One of the biggest culprits of Internet spam has been shutdown by a coordinated international effort. But the victory may be fleeting, due to other troublemakers still in operation.   Grum, a botnet (a collection of security-compromised computer...   read more