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

In the middle of one of its largest ever projects–the rollout of a new air traffic control system, dubbed “NextGen”–the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lost Administrator Randy Babbitt, who resigned on December 6, 2011, days after he was arr...   read more

Legislation intended to combat cyber threats may itself become a threat to civil liberties. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 248 to 168.   The act would allow...   read more

Lacking what critics said was common sense and compassion, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at the Wichita, Kansas, airport treated a 4-year-old child like a terrorist.   Isabella Brademeyer and her 6-year-old brother, Olive...   read more

One of the most oppressive post-Soviet dictatorships, the central Asian nation of Tajikistan has won the friendship of the U.S. government through its cooperation with Washington’s wars in the region. President Barack Obama on April 16 nominated c...   read more

On April 11, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Jay Nicholas Anania to be the next Ambassador to Suriname, which is the smallest independent nation in South America and the only independent Dutch-speaking nation in the Western Hemisp...   read more

Restricted from gouging many of its middle-class customers because of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, banks have focused on hitting low-income Americans with new, exorbitant fees.   Financial institutions are taking advantage of customers w...   read more

Lamar Advertising Co. in Florida is being sued and faces criminal prosecution for illegally killing thousands of trees for the sake of making roadside billboards more visible.   The controversy came to light after a company employee, Robert Barn...   read more

Inability to land properly was enough for the U.S. Navy to ground its most important unmanned helicopters. But the “mishaps” weren’t enough to stop Navy commanders from ordering a new-and-improved version of the aircraft.   About two weeks ago, ...   read more

In his memoir coming out this month, the Central Intelligence Agency officer who ordered the destruction of the CIA’s torture tapes defends his actions, saying he was erasing “some ugly visuals.”   Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., the former director of t...   read more

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) upset many of its longtime grant recipients this week when it cut funding for numerous PBS programs. But it also won praise from videogame makers for awarding its first grants to non-profit game developers...   read more

Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 as a civil libertarian, a former professor of Constitutional Law who promised to close the military prison at Guantánamo, Cuba, undo the unconstitutional excesses of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” and sto...   read more

Patients in Minnesota and possibly other hospitals have been greeted with the unpleasant sight of bill collectors seeking payments for medical services.   The unethical and possibly illegal practice belongs to one of the nation’s largest collect...   read more

In what some legal analysts characterized as a small catch aimed at snaring a larger fish, the Obama administration filed criminal charges this week against a BP engineer who was involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup.   Kurt Mix, who ...   read more

African-Americans facing trial in Florida need to hope for one thing: A black person on the jury.   After examining more than 700 non-capital felony criminal cases in Sarasota and Lake Counties over a 10-year period, researchers at Duke Universi...   read more

The greenhouse gas effect behind global warming is not only causing the ice in the Arctic sea to break apart, but also unleashing potentially even more gases that could accelerate the earth’s rising temperatures.   A new study from the National ...   read more

The net flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has ended, with just as many, if not more, people now heading south than north.   From 2005 to 2010, about 1.4 million Mexicans moved from the U.S. to Mexico. This total was twice the n...   read more