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

Not satisfied with making money off the burgeoning U.S. market for drones, defense contractors are lobbying Washington to allow them to sell pilotless aircraft to foreign buyers.   Northrop Grumman and other companies want Congress and the Oba...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia over alleged violations of federal law that guarantee the right of overseas military personnel to participate in elections.   Federal attorneys claim that unless something is done, s...   read more

As a result of deep budget cuts, the sheriff in Lane County, Oregon, freed 96 prisoners from the county jail, including three suspects awaiting trial for manslaughter.   Space at the jail is not a problem, according to Sheriff Tom Turner. But ...   read more

Four prostitutes are suing the state of Louisiana for requiring them to register as sex offenders because they provided oral or anal sex to clients.   Under Louisiana law, prostitutes found guilty of only offering intercourse are not considere...   read more

Most of the discussion in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) dealt with its political implications, such as whether this will help President Barack Obama’s reelection campa...   read more

China’s military today has its first attack helicopter, thanks in part to a major American defense contractor that illegally provided important software and in the process violated U.S. export control laws.   Federal prosecutors announced this...   read more

Organized labor and some constitutional scholars reacted angrily to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that could impact unions’ ability to raise money from non-union members.   In some states, such as California, public sector unions can col...   read more

In contrast to many local governments that have tried to discourage the homeless from being in their communities, Rhode Island has decided to give them a “Bill of Rights.”   The state legislature and Governor Lincoln Chafee last week approved ...   read more

The federal government’s plan to allow potentially thousands of drones to fly through U.S. airspace in the coming years could result in disaster, unless a “gaping hole” in the unmanned aircraft’s navigation system is corrected.   A team of res...   read more

President Obama’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Netherlands has withdrawn his name from the confirmation process in the wake of his recent arrest for drunk driving and resisting arrest. Timothy M. Broas, 58, was pulled over by Montgomery ...   read more

The loud rumbling sound heard from China last week was the result of Chairman Mao Zedong rolling in his grave as the Chinese people, whose per capita income in 2008 was equivalent to $3,180, learned that the likely next President of China has es...   read more

A former Playboy Playmate and ex-girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has been granted an O-1B “Extraordinary Ability” visa, allowing her to remain in the United States for three years. According to the government, an O-1B visa is for “indi...   read more

President Obama has nominated a career diplomat with extensive prior experience in the Aegean Sea region to be the next U.S. ambassador to the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus. John M. Koenig has served previously in Cyprus, and while ...   read more

Six years after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy James Mee arrested actor Mel Gibson on a drunk driving charge, endured an anti-Semitic rant by the star, clashed with his superiors over removal of the rant from the arrest report, d...   read more

President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law survived the U.S. Supreme Court, but that doesn’t mean millions of Americans won’t lose their chance at medical insurance.   At the same time that the high court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (...   read more

Lawmakers in the U.S. House have decided to single out the General Services Administration (GSA), introducing legislation that would ban that agency’s employees under investigation from receiving bonuses.   The proposal follows several account...   read more