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

Going to the polls on Election Day and having to pay $20 to cast a ballot may seem outrageous. But that is what thousands of poor Americans are facing due to new voter ID laws.   In 10 states, voters must now show some form of photo identifica...   read more

Capitol One Bank has earned the distinction of being the first bank penalized by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which discovered the financial institution had duped millions of customers into buying products they didn’t nee...   read more

All statements made by the five Guantánamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks have been classified by the Obama administration, prompting legal challenges from civil libertarians and news organizations.   The order, ...   read more

Clarence Aaron may get a second chance at having his life sentence reduced by the White House.   Convicted in 1993 and sent away for three life terms for his role in a cocaine deal, Aaron was denied commutation by President George W. Bush. But...   read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles, but will continue to allow its use in plastic bottles used by adults.   The FDA’s decision was less dramatic than it may appear, since manufacturers ...   read more

Following criticism from conservative circles, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pulled its Spanish-language radio programs designed to inform Hispanics about the federal food-stamp program.   A conservative website, The Daily Caller, ra...   read more

President Barack Obama’s promise to make government more transparent has not applied to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) when it comes to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.   In each of the first three years of the Obama admini...   read more

 The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was told a year ago by a federal appellate court to hold public hearings about the use of full-body scanners at airport checkpoints. The TSA has yet to follow the court’s order while continuing to ...   read more

The Alabama town of Harpersville has been accused of running a “debtors prison” and using its courts to commit extortion.   Circuit Judge Hub Harrington said he was appalled after finding out that the Harpersville Municipal Court and a private p...   read more

Los Angeles officials have accused US Bank of being one of the city’s largest “slumlords” and filed a civil suit against it worth potentially “hundreds of millions of dollars” for its handling of 1,500 foreclosed residential properties.   City...   read more

Raising the specter of Enron’s intrusion into the California energy market a decade ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is investigating allegations that JPMorgan Chase & Co. manipulated the state’s market in 2010-2011 for milli...   read more

Hoping to move beyond the conflict of interest controversy that torpedoed the tenure of outgoing director Regina Dugan, the Obama administration has named a new director for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dugan resigned i...   read more

Jean-Marie Le Guen, a doctor and a member of the French National Assembly from Paris, has proposed closing his nation’s budget deficit by taxing the profits of the tobacco industry.   "The tobacco companies are currently enjoying super-profits...   read more

It turns out that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) spying on scientists was far greater than previously known and included communications with members of Congress, lawyers, labor officials and journalists.   Starting in 2010, FDA offic...   read more

Five years after Congress ordered it, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) still cannot guarantee that all shipping containers arriving in U.S. ports have been scanned for radioactive material and nuclear bombs.   DHS was supposed to meet...   read more

Being part of a single-mother household can be challenging for the children as well as the parent, particularly if the mother has little education and limited income.   Today, more than 40% of all children born in the United States are born ou...   read more