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

Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, now the next in line to take over the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was one of several defendants sued last year for his alleged support of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.   After paying more than $21...   read more

Move over super PACs and make way for the “social welfare” organizations.   As hyped and deep-pocketed super PACs are, their spending power was eclipsed during the 2010 election, according to the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for ...   read more

Asian immigrants have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group entering the United States, bringing with them an unmatched degree of higher education backgrounds.   According to the Pew Research Center, 61% of adults emigrating from Asia have ...   read more

Brett McGurk has withdrawn from becoming the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq following the disclosure of racy emails he wrote in 2008, while he was married, to a reporter he later married.   Half a dozen Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relation...   read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of William Fairey, who was convicted by a South Carolina court without him being aware he was on trial.   In 1998 Fairey was charged with obtaining goods and moneys under false pretenses. H...   read more

The Department of Defense downplayed the seriousness of a June 1 attack on an American military outpost in Afghanistan, raising questions as to why officials were not forthcoming two weeks ago.   Following the assault on Forward Operating Base...   read more

Lobbyists for large defense contractors have complained that Congress is trying to make life difficult for them by limiting how large their six-figure executive salaries can be and how much government business they can hog.   In the Senate ver...   read more

Doing business as a small government contractor has distinct vulnerabilities, like getting used and tossed aside by bigger contractors.   In a survey by American Express, almost 30% of small contractors said they had been victimized by bait-an...   read more

Comedian Stephen Colbert recently made light of multi-millionaire Mitt Romney’s efforts to portray himself as being just like average Americans, zeroing in on the Republican candidate’s investment in the elitist sport of equestrian dressage.   ...   read more

While competing candidates each declared victory following the presidential election, Egypt’s military made clear just who is in charge of the country, which has been trying to transition towards democracy.   Hours after the polls closed, mark...   read more

The Roman Catholic Church in America, whose complicity in decades of sexual abuse of children by its priests and other clerics has already cost it at least $2.5 billion for legal fees, out-of-court settlements and prevention programs, is fightin...   read more

It’s often said that an election year is never a good time to ask Congress to tackle significant political issues. Between the distraction of running for reelection and the fear of doing anything controversial that might upset voters (or major c...   read more

Michigan’s Republican state legislators are apparently very sensitive folks, at least when it comes to words describing female sexual anatomy. Last week, during a debate over a proposed law that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks with no exc...   read more

The nation’s top weather forecaster is a twenty-year veteran of the National Weather Service (NWS) who has forecast the weather in such diverse climes as Alaska, Hawai’i and North Carolina. Laura K. Furgione is the National Oceanic and Atmospher...   read more

Federal prosecutors in North Carolina have been aware for nearly a year that dozens of North Carolinians currently incarcerated in federal prisons should not be there, but they have done next to nothing to help them, and in at least once case ar...   read more

Americans are overweight and getting fatter, probably because they are sugar addicts. From 1971 to 2000, obesity rates in the United States more than doubled, from 14.5% to 30.9%, and today about 68% of U.S. adults are overweight and 33.8% are o...   read more