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

 Getting a full-time job is toughest these days for those in their twenties.   According to a new Gallup poll, 32% of young workers (age 18-29) are underemployed, a category that combines the unemployed with individuals who are working part-time...   read more

Americans love their credit cards, some more than others.   Residents of Arkansas and New Jersey currently have the heaviest credit card debts, according to the Federal Reserve. Arkansans carry an average of $4,060 per person, making their state...   read more

Victims of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) drone attack in Pakistan have filed two lawsuits in a Pakistani court demanding that their government seek criminal prosecution for those responsible for killing 50 civilians.   The lawsuits (known ...   read more

Things are heating up in the United States. Over the past 12 months, the average national temperature reached the highest ever recorded since the government began keeping track in 1895.   From May 2011 to April 2012, the nationally averaged temp...   read more

Americans with and without health insurance are increasingly finding health care too expensive to see a doctor in a timely manner, according to a new study.   In 2000, one out of eight adults said they had “unmet medical” needs due to cost issue...   read more

 Parents of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only U.S. soldier being held prisoner in Afghanistan, have said election-year politics are getting in the way of President Barack Obama negotiating their son’s release.   Captured in 2009, Bergdahl is...   read more

It took 321 days for the FBI to fill the 10th spot on their Ten Most Wanted List left open by the arrest last year of Whitey Bulger…but only one day to close the case. Adam Mayes’ inclusion on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s fugitive list ...   read more

Viviette Applewhite, 93, of Philadelphia has become the face of a civil liberties lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania for requiring voters to show identification before voting. The new requirement was signed into law by Republican Governor T...   read more

They have spent less time in the Oval Office than their conservative counterparts over the last five decades, but Democratic presidents have presided over better private sector job growth than Republicans.   Bob Drummond at Bloomberg analyzed 50...   read more

Like the rest of the U.S. military, the Air Force isn’t supposed to spy on Americans. But the secretary of the Air Force, Michael Donley,  has decided the service’s drones can conduct “nonconsensual surveillance” of people in the U.S. for a limite...   read more

RBS Citizens bank is being sued for allegedly taking advantage of customers when they mistakenly low-ball the amounts of their deposits, resulting in the bank keeping the difference.   In a federal class action lawsuit, lead plaintiff Todd Bower...   read more

A bricks-and-mortar version of Sim City is going up in New Mexico, where a technology development firm will spend $1 billion to build a full-scale city just for scientists and engineers to tinker with.   Construction of The Center for Innovation...   read more

It’s been 20 years since California politics witnessed so many lawmakers getting arrested.   In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was Shrimpscam that got so many legislators into trouble, after federal agents conducted a sting operation to root...   read more

Pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay $1.6 billion to settle accusations that it illegally marketed the anti-seizure medication Depakote for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).   About $800 million...   read more

For California to execute the more than 700 murderers on death row, the state would have to spend about $700 million to do so, according to the Bay Area News Group.   The review of capital punishment cases revealed just how costly, and time cons...   read more

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), composed of conservative politicians and corporations that promote pro-business legislative agendas, has been allowed to lobby in South Carolina and other states without being required to register ...   read more