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

Growth in the number of Latinos was single biggest reason why Texas was awarded four more congressional districts after the 2010 census. And yet when the next Congress convenes, Latinos are not expected to make gains in Texas’ delegation to the ...   read more

The new ambassador to the United States from the Persian Gulf oil emirate of Qatar is a former career military officer turned diplomat since 2001. Born in 1956, Mohammed Bin Abdullah Bin Mutib Al Rumaihi graduated from the St. Cyr Military Acade...   read more

Why aim high when it’s so much easier to bust the little guy? That’s the approach being employed these days by those running the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), according to Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone.   Taibbi has drawn attention ...   read more

The Public Buildings Service (PBS) of the General Services Administration (GSA) has yet another scandal on its hands. PBS has been plagued by a series of scandals since April 2008, when GSA Administrator Lurita Doan was asked by the Bush White H...   read more

Like the ancient Persian King Xerxes, who ordered the sea whipped and chained for destroying a bridge his army needed to cross, real estate developers in North Carolina are pushing a law to prohibit rising sea levels owing to global warming–or a...   read more

A senior Foreign Service officer with 31 years of experience in Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East, Marcie Berman Ries was nominated by President Barack Obama in May 2012 to serve as ambassador to Bulgaria. Over the course of her diplomat...   read more

The West African nation of Liberia, which has had close relations with the U.S. since its founding by American former slaves in 1847, has sent a new ambassador to Washington who has played a key role in the nation’s reconstruction after back-to-...   read more

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of playing favorites when it comes to clearing material in books authored by former government officials.   At the center of the controversy is the CIA’s Publications Review Board, which i...   read more

The Obama administration has proposed making it easier to provide federal agricultural loans to young farmers in need of financing.   New rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), aimed at the 70% of American farms that gross ...   read more

Based on the assessment of one leading international children’s organization, the U.S. has one of the worst child-poverty rates among wealthy nations.   Nearly a quarter (23.1%) of young Americans (17 and younger) are living in relative povert...   read more

The ambassador from the new Balkan nation of Kosovo is, at 38 years of age, a leading representative of the generation of Kosovars who came of age during the autonomy and independence struggles against Serbia during the late 1980s and early 1990s....   read more

Career diplomat Greta C. Holtz was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 24, 2012 to be the next U.S. ambassador to Oman.   Holtz received a Bachelor of Science in political science from Vanderbilt University (1982) and a Master of Arts i...   read more

With the transition from checks to debit cards for disbursing college student aid, financial institutions have found a new way to make money that at the same time has increased debt risks for young people.   Today some universities arrange for s...   read more

Arab-American entrepreneurs should enjoy the same assistance from the federal government as American Indians and Hasidic Jews, according to a civil rights group.   The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee recently asked the Department of ...   read more

Virginia-based Osiris Therapeutics Inc. has become the first U.S. company authorized to sell a stem cell-based treatment. The approval, though, did not come from the U.S. government. Rather, Canada’s government-run health system okayed the use of ...   read more

There is money to be made on the high seas, lots of it. With the rise of piracy off the eastern coast of Africa, private security companies (PSCs) have found no shortage of commercial and private ship owners willing to pay top dollar for protectio...   read more