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. government is indirectly contributing to the nation’s obesity problem, according to one consumer advocacy group, by providing billions of dollars in agricultural subsidies that help produce junk food.   Apples to Twinkies 2012, a recent...   read more

Money laundering has been a routine part of global banking giant HSBC for years, according to a Senate investigation that zeroed in on the bank’s U.S. operations.   HSBC Bank USA, N.A., exposed the American financial system to money laundering, ...   read more

The U.S. Air Force has decided to lift its flying restrictions on the pricey F-22 Raptor after determining the oxygen problem pilots were experiencing was not related to the planes.   In May, the service limited the F-22 to low-altitude flights ...   read more

The Hamptons’ life of luxury has devolved into upper-class warfare replete with battles over helicopters and gargantuan mansions.   In what’s been billed as the (moneyed) fight of the century, as reported by Josh Harkinson at Mother Jones, bil...   read more

The Department of Defense is trying to fix what may be the biggest, ugliest accounting system ever.   So far, the Pentagon’s long-running effort to modernize its bookkeeping has incurred $8 billion in cost overruns, and is anywhere from two ye...   read more

Following protests in Northern California’s Bay Area against an Obama administration crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, the Los Angeles City Council this week voted to ban most such shops.   The unanimous decision was supported by th...   read more

Florida’s “stand your ground” law has been a popular defense for convicted, oftentimes-violent criminals who have used it after committing other crimes.   The Tampa Bay Times reviewed more than 100 “stand your ground” cases that involved a fatal...   read more

Guardians of U.S. government secrets are not part of some small circle of chosen officials. Rather, they are part of a very large one.   Individuals in possession of a security clearance from Washington now total more than 4.8 million, a new hig...   read more

Last year’s bickering between House Republicans and President Barack Obama over raising the nation’s debt limit was indeed costly, and not just because it resulted in the government borrowing even more money to keep Washington going.   By taking...   read more

Senior officials in the Afghanistan government have been named in a special human rights report detailing atrocities that took place during the 1980s and 1990s.   Compiled over six years, “Conflict Mapping in Afghanistan Since 1978” accuses 500 ...   read more

Americans may soon be getting checks in the mail, and they will have the federal healthcare reform law to thank.   One key, but little known provision of the Affordable Care Act, has to do with the medical loss ratio (MLR) and insurance companie...   read more

If you combined the economies of the United States and Japan, you would have the dollar equivalent of the amount of money being stashed away by the super-rich of the world in offshore tax havens.   A new report from the Tax Justice Network found...   read more

Chad Spurley, convicted of manslaughter while driving drunk, won’t be attending his mother’s funeral, because he’s still in prison for the crime. This fact has upset, of all people, the mother of Spurley’s victim.   Davi Dohm, 36, of Madison, Wi...   read more

Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines … they all were represented last weekend in San Diego’s annual gay pride parade. The presence of hundreds of military personnel—in uniform—marked the first time gay service members had marched in such an event anywhe...   read more

Doctors who sell medications out of their offices are adding millions of dollars a year to the country’s ballooning healthcare bill.   With the help of middlemen and drug distributors, physicians have opened up mini pharmacies allowing them to d...   read more

House Republicans are attempting to block states’ ability to impose tough animal-welfare laws through a federal agricultural bill.   The Protect Interstate Commerce Act, recently approved by the House Committee on Agriculture, would prevent stat...   read more