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

Flooded with an ever-increasing volume of images, U.S. military commanders in charge of drone surveillance have turned to an unexpected source for answers.   Operators of unmanned aircraft are currently collecting more than 10,000 hours a mont...   read more

Having sailed its last voyage, the oil tanker formerly known as the Exxon Valdez now sits off the coast of India, mired in yet another environmental controversy.   Now called the Oriental Nicety, the ship was responsible for the disastrous Mar...   read more

The language spoken by Jesus Christ is making a modest comeback in the Middle East, with a little help from friends in Scandinavia.   Christian children in the Palestinian village of Beit Jala, located next to the city of Bethlehem, are learni...   read more

A victory in November could be twice as sweet for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.   If Romney defeats President Barack Obama, the Republican would be able to implement his tax-cut plan for the nation—and save $4.8 million on his...   read more

Seniors are increasingly being prescribed powerful narcotics for chronic pain following the recommendations of experts, many of whom had connections to the pharmaceutical industry.   An investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPa...   read more

Tired of being told about the nation’s bad air quality, China’s government demanded the United States stop publicizing pollution readings taken from its embassies in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai.   For the past four years, American officials ...   read more

Police in Kansas City had a tough time solving shootings last year because the majority of victims who survived refused to cooperate with authorities.   The Kansas City Star found that out of nearly 300 shootings in 2011, 175 victims declined ...   read more

Having barely avoided execution late last year, convicted murderer Hank Skinner is finally getting the DNA test he first requested nearly a dozen years ago.   Skinner was found guilty in 1995 of killing his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two...   read more

Many observers have said that today’s recall election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is a harbinger of what to except in November’s general election…not because of the issues, but because of the way it is being financed. In Wisconsin, the ba...   read more

Jittery investors gobbled up Treasury notes last week, sending their value down to historic lows.   Unlike stocks and commodities, Treasury bonds’ value goes down when demand is high. The rush last week sent Treasuries with 10- and 30-year yie...   read more

Women earn less money than men in the workforce as a general rule. They also peak at a younger age, it turns out, in terms of salary growth.   According to the company PayScale, college-educated women on average reach their pay ceiling by age ...   read more

State officials have been lining up like kids outside a theater box office, spending more than $1 billion to coax Hollywood to film movies and television shows in various states.   Forty-three states currently offer subsidies to production com...   read more

With the coming withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the rule of President Hamid Karzai also will be coming to an end by 2014. But this doesn’t mean Karzai or his family members will be lacking for opportunities in their home country.   ...   read more

As Congress and the Executive branch investigate the recent trading disaster at the nation’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), many are asking what role bank regulators played in the debacle, expected to cost JPM between $2 billion and $7 bill...   read more

The Department of Energy (DOE) wastes too much energy, and could see great improvements at very little cost, according to an Inspector General report released May 25. DOE IG Gregory Friedman audited energy usage at the agency’s approximately 530...   read more

Elections have consequences, a truism demonstrated last week in Grants Pass, Oregon (pop.: 34,533), where dozens of inmates poured out of the Josephine County jail Wednesday, some running, yet none pursued by law enforcement because voters two w...   read more